Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) has launched an open competition for university fee exemptions for Autumn semester of the academic year 2022/2023. The purpose of the competition is to achieve the mission of socially responsible university by reducing social exclusion, creating appropriate financial conditions for VMU students to be accommodated and (or) study (taking into account different social (material) situations, study results and (or) accommodation in the dormitory).

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September 8-10th, the XVIII international Congress, "Criminology and Forensic Expertise: Science, Studies, Practice" was held at the Mykolas Romeris University (MRU). It was organized by the Lithuanian Society of Criminologists, MRU and the Lithuanian Forensic Expertise Center.

On 7 September, students and researchers from Vilnius University (VU) had the opportunity to meet Michio Kaku, a modern physics icon, futurist and science populariser, bestselling author, co-founder of String theory, and a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Centre. Professor Kaku shared facts about his academic career, touched on topics such as climate change, artificial intelligence, alternative physics, string theory, and loop quantum gravity, and answered questions from students.

The European Commission's new Innovation Agenda for Europe sets out the goal of becoming a world leader in deep-tech and has set up the European Network of Innovative Higher Education Institutions (ENIHEI) to achieve this goal. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) was selected to take part in this network.

A group of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, the authors of numerous breakthrough innovations in the solar energy field, proposed yet another solution to increase the stability and performance of perovskite solar elements. They synthesised a new class of carbazole-based cross-linkable materials, which are resistant to various environmental effects, including strong solvents used in the production of solar cells.

While making decisions, people often say it happened “naturally”; however, there are complex mechanisms in our brains at the time. The human brain works like a computer processor that receives, processes, stores, modifies, and transmits information but sometimes freezes. Dr. Gerda Ana Melnik-Leroy, a researcher at the prestigious École Normale in Paris and a researcher at the Data Science and Technology Institute (DSTI) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (MIF) at Vilnius University (VU), believes that serious and comprehensive research requires analyzing a problem or object of study from the perspectives of different sciences.

Takeaway food became an integral part of our lives. However, despite the convenience of such a service, frequent users have to face its drawbacks: the contents of the food can accidentally leak, the meal cools down, and the package does not always suit the size of the portion. Kaunas University of Technology researchers together with business and citizens created a takeaway food box, which solves all these issues and is entirely plastic-free.

This year, the Faculty of Medicine at Vilnius University (VU) admitted 214 resident doctors to study in 53 medical and 6 dental residency programmes.