Those wishing to study programming choose Kaunas University of Technology (KTU): according to the data announced by the office for general admission LAMA BPO, KTU's study programme Progamming Systems attracted the largest number of state funded study places in Lithuania. 237 future programmers were invited to join KTU in September, 200 of them will have the opportunity to study free of charge.

The article "Bronze Age Eurasian population genomics" was publicized in the prestigious scientific journal "Nature" in June, presenting the findings of the international research project on the genetic testing results generated over the past few years.

"Can we come back to Lithuania with you? Maybe you need someone to carry your things. Can I be your assistant, I want to visit Vilnius very much?"– such requests Professor Edmundas Saliklis received from his students of California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly), who at least once participated at the engineering summer school in Lithuania.

The three films competing for the 2015 LUX Prize were announced on 24 July in Rome by EP vice-president Antonio Tajani and culture committee chair Silvia Costa, at the Venice Days press conference. The films are: Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano (Italy, United States, Germany, France, Qatar), Mustang, by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar) and Urok (The Lesson) by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria, Greece).

On July 21 the first meeting of the Cyber Security Council took place at the Ministry of National Defence. Members of the Council familiarises with national authorities shaping and implementing the national cyber security policy, and discussed status of cyber security in the country and further interinstitutional cooperation.

The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed professor Dainius Pūras from Vilnius University, Lithuania as a Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health at its twenty-sixth session in June 2014.

The National Audit Office has completed financial (regularity) audits for the year 2014 in the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy and Vytautas Magnus University.

We all love to travel, but do you know what to do if things go wrong? When there is an emergency, your flight gets cancelled or you lose your passport? There are EU rules in place to make travellers' lives easier. Here are a few key points to remember.

A new bird species to Lithuania – the Baillon's crake (porzana pusilla) was observed in Rokiskis region in north-eastern Lithuania, the Lithuanian Ornithological Society said.

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.