KTU’s system of renewable energy resources, which received international recognition in 2020, attracted the attention of the Commission for Energy and Sustainable Development of the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) this year. During their visit to KTU, the MPs got acquainted with the hybrid electricity production and heat storage system operating at the University, which not only protects the environment but also supplies the buildings on the campus.

In the history of the Faculty of Medicine at Vilnius University, which is now in its 241st year, a decade is just a piece of a larger puzzle, showing how one or another generation of doctors has changed and what they have lived for. Meanwhile, ten years in a person’s life is a significant period of time. That is how long the Faculty of Medicine has been led by the thirty-fourth Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. To find out what have been the most important changes made in the faculty over the last decade, what challenges its leader had to overcome, where he got his strength from, what, if any superpowers he would wish for, and what advice he would give his successor, we asked the outgoing Dean, Prof. Dr Algirdas Utkus, some questions.

VMU International Cooperation Department is pleased to inform you that the Internship Programme at the prestigious Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is open for applications.

The second Nobel Prize was announced this afternoon. This year’s Prize in Physics was awarded to Professors Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” said the Nobel committee. According to Assoc. Prof. of quantum mechanics at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University (VU) Jevgenij Chmeliov, this top-ranking award has once again underlined the importance of quantum mechanics science.

On 4 October, 6 PM, Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University, Grand Auditorium (Saulėtekio al. 7) will host a public lecture by Nobel Prize Winner in Physics William Daniel Phillips ‘Time, Einstein and the Coldest Stuff in the Universe.’

Professor William Daniel Phillips, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics and a Distinguished Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States of America (USA), will be in Vilnius from 2 to 5 October. The world-renowned physicist is coming to Vilnius University, where he will meet with the rector, Prof. Rimvydas Petrauskas, students of the Faculty of Physics, and on October 4. 6:00 p.m. will give a public lecture titled “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe”.

Sept. 22nd, 2022, International Association of Universities (IAU) President Prof. Dr. Pam Fredman told a packed auditorium at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) universities need to rethink internationalization taking advantage of new technologies as a complement to physical mobility.

Kaunas Digital Twin, developed by KTU Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Centre of Smart Cities and Infrastructure, was announced as one of the finalists of the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The winners of the Awards established by Bentley Systems Inc. will be revealed on November 15.

The Biomedicine Future Foundation has signed a €1 million support agreement with Vilnius University (VU) Foundation. The funding is earmarked for the chrono-epigenomics programme at the Institute of Biotechnology at the VU Life Sciences Centre (LSC). Chrono-epigenomics is a new field of biomedical research that seeks to understand the general patterns of body development, ageing, and disease onset.

Huge objects that look small for radars, invisibility “cloaks” that can hide anything, 3D-printed optics, 3D-printed circuit boards and radios… If these descriptions sound as if taken from a science fiction book about the future, Dr Raymond C. Rumpf would say – this future is just around the corner.