The Education and Training Monitor 2015 shows progress in education attainment across Europe but reveals investment is needed to make education more inclusive and boost social mobility.

Two weeks ago ESN KTU (Erasmus Student Network of Kaunas University of Technology) invited all the students to become real-life heroes by donating their blood.

FL Technics, an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services company that is part of the Lithuanian-owned, Warsaw-listed aviation group Avia Solutions Group (ASG), has set up a representative office in Miami amid plans to expand operations in North America.

VMU is organizing its first ever TEDx event: TEDx VytautasMagnus University. The event, whose theme is "Embrace Change", will be held at VMU Aula Magna (7 Gimnazijos Street, Kaunas) on 10 December, 2 p.m.

On the 5th of November, The NATO ENSEC COE and Kaunas University of Technology have signed the Letter of Intent on cooperation.

On November 11, Dr. Arun Majumdar, Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Stanford University (USA), Director of Precourt Energy Institute, and Google consultant, comes on a visit to Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU).

22nd-25th of October, Head of Biomedical Diagnostics and Dietetics Department, assoc. prof. dr. Erika Kubiliene participated in the 26th strategic planning meeting of European Federation of Associations of Dietetians (EFAD) and the 9th EFAD Conference "European Dietitians Action Plan in Food and Nutrition", which took place in the Netherlands, Amsterdam.

What was the Safe Harbour arrangement?

The 1995 EU Data Protection Directive sets out rules for transferring personal data from the EU to non-EU countries. Under these rules, the Commission may decide that a non-EU country ensures an "adequate level of protection". These decisions are commonly referred to as "adequacy decisions".

The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visited Vilnius University on 4 November and had a meeting with prof. Artūras Žukauskas, VU Rector, with Georgian and Lithuanian students.

"We are not coming here to increase the number of researchers working at CERN, but to increase the number of highly qualified researchers", said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN.