On September 19th, 2014, Lithuania Post, one of the biggest Lithuanian companies providing postal and logistic services, signed a cooperation agreement with the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). On the grounds of cooperation, the students will have more opportunities to have a supervised practice and start a professional career with Lithuania Post.

Are measures to help reduce youth unemployment working? MEPs will assess the progress of two key programmes - the European Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative - with the Council and the Commission on Wednesday 17 September. This evaluation is sorely needed considering as many as 5.2 million young people were out of work in the EU in May. Check out the graph to see how unemployment evolved in the UK, Ireland and the EU over the last 15 years.

For the first time ever, in 2014, Lithuania launched into the space 2 satellites. To mark this historical event, Lithuania Post is going to release a new postage stamp that will appear in circulation this Saturday, September 20.

"QS World University Rankings" – a list of the world's top universities – has included seven Baltic universities this year. Out of the seven Baltic universities on the list, the University of Latvia (LU) is the only university representing Latvia. Tartu is leading in Baltics.

The program of students and teachers exchange in the EU exists for over 25 years. Each year mere and more students take part in the program, e.g. in 2012-13 about 270 thousand students participated. Spending time abroad helps students broaden their experience and gives them opportunities to increase their employability, while academics can bring home valuable experience to improve teaching quality.

Kaunas University of Technology and Italian company Gruppo Fos signed a cooperation agreement on 11 September for the establishment of a biomedical engineering research centre in Santaka Valley, Kaunas.

The National Audit Office of Lithuania has completed a financial audit of the Ministry of Education and Science, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Nature Research Centre, and Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore for the year 2013.

The discussion with Stuart Milk will take place this Friday, 12th September 2014, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Senate Hall (Senato salė) of Vilnius University, at Universiteto g. 3.

According to the head of Lithuanian Government, it is absolutely impossible to increase teacher's salaries already in 2014.

World scientific journal Publishing House "SciencePG" (Science Publishing Group) offered Doctor Habil. Josifas Parasonis, Professor of the Department of Architecture Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), to prepare a special issue on the topic of architectural engineering research.