Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Organic Chemistry laboratories have developed material which offers much cheaper alternative to the one which is currently being used in hybrid solar cells. The efficiency of the semi-conductors created by the team of KTU's chemists was confirmed at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. The publication on the discovery has been selected among 5 percent most important papers in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, which is one of the prime chemistry journals in the world.

VMU Office of Student Affairs has announced the competition for the provision of residences at the university's dormitory for incoming international students, organised according to the Description of Procedure for Residence Management at Vytautas Magnus University.

"Our students are solving real practical problems, as they are being appointed the research tasks from our international projects", says Elena Jasiūnienė, researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Ultrasound Research Institute. Jasiūnienė, masters and PhD students' supervisor, is convinced that hands-on research experience at KTU's Santaka Valley labs, which are among the best equipped in the Eastern Europe, offers a huge advantage for KTU students.

Damira Smagulova, who has collected her masters in measurement engineering from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) this June, is convinced: studies in Kaunas was a perfect choice.

The team of Vilnius University (VU) students will represent Lithuania in the prestigious synthetic biology competition iGEM (Eng. International Genetically Engineered Machine competition) in Boston this year. 280 teams from all over the world will present their synthetic biology projects.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė launched the Lithuanian National Day at World Expo 2015 in Milan. At the exhibition, which this year introduces the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", Lithuania presents its culinary and cultural heritage.

The first loans for graduates taking their Master's degree abroad are now available under the Erasmus+ Master Loan Guarantee Scheme. The agreement, which will provide up to € 30 million worth of loans guaranteed by the European Commission through its Erasmus+ Programme, will be signed by MicroBank and the European Investment Fund. This first agreement will provide financial support for students from Spain taking their Master degree in one of the 33 Erasmus+ Programme Countries, or students from these countries moving to Spain for a Master, European Commission informs.