This year nearly 70 Lithuanian state scholarships will be granted for talented students to study Master's in Lithuania. Citizens of Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine who have been admitted to Kaunas University of Technology may apply for a state funded (free of charge) study place and a monthly scholarship of 380 EUR. Whereas citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – can apply for a monthly scholarship of 380 EUR.

About two thousand people including students, teachers, and parents arrived on 1st June, on the International Children's Day, to the square next to the edifice of the Government of Lithuania in order to express their protest against the destruction of national minorities' education by Lithuanian authorities.

In the middle of May, the contest "I am doing business! From science to start-up" ended. The contest received fifty-four entrepreneurial ideas from students of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), as well as other Lithuanian and foreign higher education institutions.

Students coming to Lithuania for Erasmus+ studies or traineeship have the opportunity to learn Lithuanian language and culture and to prepare themselves for their mobility period in Lithuania.

With the new 5G agreement, the EU will join forces with Japan to cope with the increasing need for wireless Internet and complement current efforts to create a Digital Single Market in Europe.

Several major Western news organisations have been hit by politically motivated cyber-attacks over the past few years, mostly in retaliation for their critical coverage of events, countries or movements such as the Syrian regime or Islamic State. MEPs discussed on 27 May how the EU could help to counter such attacks. Check out our timeline to learn more about the attacks and read on to find out how the EU could help.

This week the second international congress of Numanities, organised by Kaunas University of Technology International Semiotics institute is taking place. Almost 140 participants from 30 countries and 4 continents are present at the Congress, representing 60 academic institutions.

President Dalia Grybauskaite has signed a decree appointing Audrone Pitreniene as the minister of education and science in Lithuania.

Aiming at qualitative changes in all areas of University activities, as well as striving for consistent transition to the more efficient process management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) has already completed the installation of the Quality Management System, and the Auditors assessed it very well.

The paper „Droplet Barcoding for Single-Cell Transcriptomics Applied to Embryonic Stem Cells", presenting the findings of the VU Biotechnological Institute researcher Linas Mažutis and his colleagues I. Akartuna and A. Klein was published recently in the famous biweekly publication "Cell".