INCLUDE (INCLUsive Disaster Education) is a collaborative research project co-funded by EU Erasmus+ programme. This two-year research initiative aims to reimagine online distance learning education so that it better supports the diverse Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) community.

On 11-15 July, the premises of Vilnius University (VU) will, for the first time, host the summer school British Geopolitics in the Baltic States jointly organized by the Faculty of History of VU and the Centre for Geopolitics of the University of Cambridge.

Admissions to the Kaunas University of Technology are open until July 31. Have you submitted your application yet? Are you interested in the possibilities that KTU is offering? Here’s one – KTU is a part of ECIU University. ECIU University unites 13 strong European universities, and at the core of its activities is challenge-based learning.

On 30 June, an official celebration ceremony of the 100th anniversary of the Clinic of Children’s Diseases (VLK) of the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University (VU MF) titled “At the Turn of the Centuries of the History of the Clinic of Children’s Diseases of VU MF” was held. During the ceremony, the history of VLK was remembered, achievements of recent years were discussed, and attendees were invited to reflect on future plans and opportunities.

On June 16, after more than two years of construction, the Tech Hub cooperation space was opened at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Vilnius University (VU EVAF). The premises will bring together start-ups of the Tech Hub pre-accelerator run by the Innovation Agency together with Vilnius University, the premises will also host various events, hackathons, conferences, and workshops.

A team of researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, developed an innovative method for cleaning contaminated water. Hydrogel granules made from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) function as a biological carrier for microorganism cultures, which decompose pollutants in wastewater. According to the researchers, the treatment works up to 5 times faster compared to conventional methods.

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 27 June to 1 July. He will be attending the 14th European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons (ECAMP’14, www.ecamp14.org) which is organised by Vilnius University, the European Physical Society and the Lithuanian Physical Society. At the conference, the world-renowned physicist will give a public lecture titled “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe”.

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The Odontology Institute at the Faculty of Medicine uses a virtual reality simulator to train future dental professionals, which effectively allows them to prepare for working with patients and strengthen their practical skills. Using a digitized version of a real patient, these devices mean that future dentists can simulate all tooth drilling procedures, and monitor their progress.

Due to different socio-economic and environmental conditions, agro-ecosystems play a critical role in development processes all over the world, particularly in the tropics. Tropical agricultural systems are characterized by planned and unplanned diversity. Both these types of diversity have a significant impact on agro-ecosystem’s productivity, stability, pest control, soil processes, and organism movement between agriculture and natural habitats in the agricultural landscape. Industrialization, urbanization, population growth, the market economy, and climate change are major factors that threaten tropical agro-ecosystems. As a tropical country, Sri Lanka relies on agriculture as one of the most important sectors of its economy, and disasters can obstruct agricultural production, resulting in significant capital losses. The rice-based agro-ecosystem of Sri Lanka is vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods and droughts. Natural disasters of this nature strike Sri Lanka almost every year. In this context, Sri Lanka's tropical agroecosystem should be linked to higher education to address the new social and economic challenges associated with such agro-eco systems.