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.

Speech of Neelie KROES Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda on Safer Internet Day 2014 in Brussels, 11 February 2014.

The reform in education system in the member states can be a driving force behind the EU's exit from the crisis. It is in the common European interest to educate and train specialists, which national economies need to sustain global competition. New markets in Europe need greater numbers of more sophisticated specialist with new skills. For all this to happen, the member states' education and training system needs investment.

Students and academic staff from Latin America will have more opportunities to study or train in European universities thanks to increased support from Erasmus+, the new European funding programme for education, training, sport and youth. This is the message that Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, will deliver at the 9th International Congress of Higher Education which takes place in Havana, Cuba, from 10-14 February. European students and staff will similarly have the opportunity to experience Latin American universities. During her visit to the island, the Commissioner will also hold talks with senior government figures including the Ministers for Foreign Affairs (Bruno Rodriguez), Higher Education (Rodolfo Alarcon Ortiz), Education (Elsa Velazquez), Culture (Rafael Bernal) and Foreign Trade and Investment (Rodrigo Malmierca).