On 1st June 2015 national minorities organised a picket in defence of their schools in front of the building of the Lithuanian Government. And now the determination of national minorities, including Polish, started bringing results.

The 10 films competing for this year's Lux Prize have been revealed at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, including five by first-time directors, a mix of genres and the selection's first-ever Icelandic film. The European Parliament awards the prize to the best European film every year. At the end of the month it will be announced which three films have been short-listed for the finals, meaning they will also be screened all over the EU as part of the Lux Film Days.

According to national rankings, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) graduates are the most valued marketing professionals in the job market (magazine "Reitingai", 2014). To prove the point: KTU marketing undergraduates were the first Lithuanians, who found themselves among the winners of Google Online Marketing Challenge last year.

Recently there was a weird show off of the vice mayor of Vilnius, conservative Valdas Benkunskas. He proposed to move the legendary Polish Vilnius Joachimo Lelevelio secondary school from the district of Antakalnis to Zirmunai, and to make the school apply for an 'asylum' in the elementary school of A. Vivulskio on the Minties street.

A closing ceremony of the first children's chess tournament Lithuania and Ukraine to mark the State Day of Lithuania and the 25th anniversary of signature of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was held in the Seimas. The three-day international tournament was aimed at boosting the cooperation between Lithuania and Ukraine and promoting relations among young people of the two countries.

19 June Vice-President of Chang'an University, China, prof. Zhao Junhai and Dean of the International Education School of this university prof. Li Xijian visited Vilniaus kolegija/UAS.

Summer Law Program for legal studies organized by the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University and Charlotte School of Law from North Carolina was launched for the law students on 29 June in Vilnius University.

Lithuanian and French Ministers of Culture Sarunas Birutis and Fleur Pellerin signed an agreement on film co-production in Paris to facilitate cooperation between Lithuanian and French filmmakers.

Take part in our guest photographer contest, inspired by 2015 being the European Year for Development. Until September we will be announcing different topics linked to development. Send us your photo inspired by the theme of that month, along with the submission form and you could be invited to Strasbourg to do a photo reportage.

"People are writing more than ever: we are texting, commenting on films and articles, blogging, facebooking and tweeting daily", says Saulė Petronienė, Head of New Media Language study programme at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to her, anyone wishing to succeed in writing, journalism, editing, and even advertising or marketing must not only have perfect language skills, but also know how to use new medias.