November 12th, 2019, 4 new Council members were appointed during an academic community conference. The Council members are appointed by the University academic community.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, together with Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania is inviting to CAS-CERN Accelerator School next spring. Held in different countries, only 4 schools are being organised by CERN yearly. This will be the first time for the CAS-CERN Accelerator School to be organised in one of the Baltic States. The registration has already started.

Baltic and Benelux education ministers plan to develop agreements with automatic recognition academic diploma.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University representatives together with 7 European partners visited the Northern-Netherlands to kick off a European interregional project that focuses on the use and production of renewable energy by businesses, communities and households on October 29 to 31.

For some years now, VGTU scientists have been conducting research into biological air filters. We are delighted to announce that their work has finally been recognised with a Europe-wide patent.

New diesel passenger vehicles are not only more fuel efficient, but also emit less greenhouse gas (CO2), as compared with the nearest comparable vehicle with petrol engine. The researchers of the Faculty of Transport Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) have concluded this after emission tests have been carried out on cars made in 2019.

Six undisclosed applicants have expressed their wish to become rector of Vilnius University.

A team of researchers from the Institute of Materials Science at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) together with colleagues from Japan and Latvia came up with a method that forces over 300 million metal nanoparticles to self-assemble into regular structures, which enhance their interaction with light by orders of magnitude. This work might be beneficial in developing ultra-small lasers that can contribute to the diagnostics of many illnesses within the human body, including oncological ones.

Lithuania's government on Wednesday allowed a Vilnius-based private British school to work under the English national education program.

Compared to the previous year, the number of European patent applications filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) last year reached a new high of 174 thousand, says Enrico Luzzatto, Senior Advisor to the European Patent Academy at the EPO. He was invited to Lithuania by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Doctoral School.