Studies by Lithuanian geologists suggest that underground waters in Western Lithuania contain sufficient amounts of bromine and potassium in order to start industrial extraction of brine and further chemical enrichment.

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014, teachers will go on an indefinite strike in some schools and kindergartens.

Interdisciplinary art research platform Jutempus (Vilnius, Lithuania) at Kaunas University of Technology launches Zooetics, a 5 year long exploration of future environmental fictions and models. 'Zooetics' is a notion in progress to explore new ways to engage human knowledge and research with other forms of life—from mammals to microbes to mollusks—and to imagine designs, prototypes and interfaces for future interspecies ecologies.

On November 12, foreign students studying at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), participated at the open lecture "Career – Challenges and Opportunities", organised specially for them.

The society of Vilnius University artists and musicians presented the outstanding musical performance to the academia as well as to numerous highly respected guests of the Alma Mater on the occasion of the 435th anniversary of the Vilnius University last week.

Smart technologies created at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Centre of Real Time Computer Systems remind broadcasts from future – smart home system Snapas, smart kitchen Fėja digital TV Gala and smart refrigerators that can order the products themselves are only a few successful projects implemented by the Centre.

On November 17, Monday, David E. Baker, the Vice President for External Affairs of Illinois Institute of Technology, visited Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU).

Edward Lucas, one of the most prominent British columnists analysing geopolitical situation in the Eastern Europe, has been awarded Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) Honorary Doctorate. The ceremony took place on 20 November, the university said in a press release.

"The brain is incredibly difficult to understand. We know maybe one or two per cent," said Dr Thomas Südhof, speaking to us ahead of a lecture about the brain at the European Parliament on 18 November. The 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate was invited by the EP's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) body for its annual lecture.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) received a nomination of Quality Competition, organised by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation in 2014, for the Erasmus programme publicity and the results' dissemination in the most qualified way.