On 25 February, Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius welcomed participants of the conference of the For the Progress of Libraries 2 project.

The EU would offer talented non-EU students and researchers better living and working conditions so as to boost its member states' long-run competitiveness, under draft rules backed by the full Parliament on Tuesday. The rules would also clarify entry and residence conditions for foreign trainees, volunteers, school pupils and au pairs.

On February 24, the economic forum Economic Development of Siauliai Region: Ideas for Business Promotion – State's Investments will take place in the Siauliai University.

After the meeting with students of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah Ann McCarthy said that she would like to be a student again. The Ambassador delivered a lecture for the University community on global economic trends, visited auditoriums and appraised modern technologies and equipment used by scientists.

On Wednesday, Lithuania's Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis and representatives of education trade unions signed an agreement over consulting and coordination of positions on topical issues related to education.

Electronics industry CEOs have told European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes that Europe can capture up to 60% of new electronics markets, and double the economic value of semiconductor component production in Europe within the next 10 years, in a plan delivered to the European Commission today.

Lithuania's company Network Solutions LT searches for the new investors for a new shopping and entertainment centre in the Lithuania's capital. Market participants call such plans risky, writes Lithuania's newspaper Verslo Zinios.

On February 10, 2014, Director General of Statistics Lithuania Vilija Lapėnienė and Rector of the Kaunas University of Technology Petras Baršauskas signed a memorandum on bilateral cooperation.

In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance and reduced trust in the internet, the European Commission today proposes a key reform to the way the Internet is managed and run. The proposal calls for more transparent, accountable and inclusive governance.

The EU's app sector has gone from zero to digital superhero in less than five years. By 2018 it could employ 4.8 million people and contribute €63 billion to the EU economy according to a report presented in Brussels today. The study, carried out by GIGAOM for the European Commission, shows that Europe's app developers are up to the challenge of taking the global lead. Currently, EU and North American developers generate the same levels (42% each) of app revenues in crucial EU and US markets. Although the future is bright, developers have raised concerns about the skills gap, connectivity and fragmentation which could put the app boom at risk.