On February 1, Vilnius University (VU) will be announcing the beginning of public international competitions for vacant academic positions. As every year, the university is currently looking for 350 lecturers and researchers of various fields. Documents must be submitted during the period of one month, until March 1.

On February 1, Vilnius University (VU) is going to take a historic step by becoming one of the first large organizations in Lithuania that are set to meet 100% of their electricity needs from renewable sources. VU will be supplied with green electricity by Imlitex.

Residents of the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University (VU MF), regardless of their field of residency studies, have recently been working mainly with patients who have contracted COVID-19. Residents of various specialisations are facing challenges during this difficult period of the pandemic, when alarming numbers of new cases of infection and victims are observed with great anxiety on a daily basis. Rūta Jakimavičiūtė from Vilnius, who is a second-year student at the VU MF chemotherapy oncology residency programme, agreed to tell us about her experiences.

The second wave of COVID-19 infection is more dangerous than the first, however, now we know more about the virus. In the spring of 2020, to assess the coronavirus situation in Lithuania, researchers of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (VU) together with medical specialists started providing the Government with short-term and long-term prognoses of spread of the epidemic and carried out research.

A team of PhD students at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Professor Kazimieras Baršauskas Ultrasound Research Institute has won the international NDT student challenge.

41 universities from 22 countries and the companies providing traineeship will introduce their opportunities in the international GO Abroad Fair 2021, which Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is organizing for the eighth time. Also, the participants of the exchange from previous years will share their good practices and answer the questions. The Fair will take place online on February 3-4.

With the pandemic disrupting our learning, jobs, and health, it’s no surprise many of us are feeling blue this January. Although some students are happy with the new learning situation and the time they save on the commute, anxiety, sensitivity, emotional difficulties and inability to relax is observed more often under the quarantine conditions. Even without a pandemic, this time of year is usually challenging for students. The following tips will not make you immune to being homesick or studies-related worries, but there are ways to ease the pressure.

On Friday, January 29 at 3 pm virtual Graduation Ceremony of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) will take place. The guests are invited to watch the ceremony live on https://diplomai.ktu.edu/.

Contemporary motherhood poses many challenges and raises many questions. Why do some women choose to become mothers while others opt out? How do they combine work with motherhood? How do they narrate their experiences as mothers or how is motherhood narrated? How do they see the stories told about them as mothers? We do not yet understand what it means to be a marginalized mother, to be on the periphery because of ethnicity, disability, youth, deprivation, or migrant status. These are some of the research questions that members of the Horizon 2020 Widespread Twinning project “MotherNet” will engage with.

The key factor in preventing non-communicable diseases is lifestyle management at the individual level with a focus on such innovations, which can help increase the awareness of risk factors management in society, claim an international team of researchers, among them – scientists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania in a recent study. According to them, the management of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases requires many strategies from several perspectives and on different levels.