Five scientists, VU researcher Virginijus Šikšnys among them, share award for elucidating bacterial defense system and recognizing its utility for gene editing.

In the Sunrise Valley, President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), opened the most advanced research centers in the Baltic Sea region and a science exhibition of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The European Commission is today releasing €10 million for research on the Zika virus, currently affecting large parts of Latin America.

''The most popular programs = the most successful career?" – such question is raised in the conclusions of MOSTA survey, comprising the ratings of the most popular study programs (491 program) as well as those of maximum wage (W) (392 programs).

On Tuesday 15 March, 6 p.m., at VMU Small Hall (28 S. Daukanto g.) United Nations Student Club and Kaunas International Medical Student's Union are organizing a discussion entitled Europe on the Brink: Addressing the Refugee Crisis.

More than 250 engineers, software developers, designers, marketers and business developers were competing at the Hacker Games hackathon at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Santaka Valley last weekend. It was the first Hacker Games hackathon with a designated hardware track and the largest event of a kind in Lithuania over the past few years.

On Tuesday 8 March Honorary Doctor inauguration ceremony of famous researcher and entrepreneur David J. Teece took place at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). David J. Tecce became the 45th Honorary Doctor of KTU.

On 15 March 2016 at 11.00 a.m. VU together with the partners and along with honourable guests will open the new national research facilities – Joint Centre for Life Sciences and National Centre of Physical and Technological Sciences. Simultaneously, CERN Exhibition "Accelerating Science" will be held at Saulėtekio av. 3, 7.

Mobile technologies have already greatly transformed human's work, travel and commerce. Peoples' communication becomes digital: presently, about half the world's population has a mobile subscription; ten years ago, it was just one in five. By 2020, at least 26 billion devices will be hooked up to the internet and about 70% of people will own a smartphone.

Hamid Aït Abderrahim has been working with Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) scientists for over a decade in order to develop a prototype of a new modern reactor which would help to reduce the duration of nuclear waste toxicity from 300 000 to 300 years. The hard work to find a solution for a global problem has finally paid off. "Today, thanks to our collaboration with KTU scientists, we can say that we have a solution to address a key safety hurdle for this technology", says H. Aït Abderrahim.