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2017-11-21

KTU Challenge: Solve Da Vinci Code and Change the Colour of Mona Lisa’s Glasses

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets,” once said Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci and his foremost painting “Mona Lisa” reflect the artist’s ability to surpass time. Da Vinci is often considered as the originator of many modern inventions and theories, who was distinguished by interdisciplinarity of his inventions and works of art. Even today, the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci inspire others to create. Kaunas University of Technology, an innovative, advanced and future-oriented university, which use ideas to create projects of the future, set up a challenge – how would […]

2017-11-23

“The array of things to do in Lithuania is endless”, says VGTU student David from India

David Moses from India, a third year bachelor’s student at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, who majored in Business management, always loved good challenges and his decision to study abroad proved to be worth it. “I would strongly encourage prospective international students to take a similar journey”, says David. Read his thoughts about studying in Lithuania below. First, why VGTU? To coming to VGTU was not a decision made by statistical & SWOT analysis. Instead, it was a pretty spontaneous choice. After, I made my mind to study abroad, I dragged myself to a few researches about VGTU and its academics […]

2017-11-29

MES Program: An Opportunity to Take an Action

LCC International University, an internationally recognized liberal arts institution, recently announced that their vision for developing the Middle East Scholars Program was to assist war-affected students from Syria and Iraq with an intensive English program on a safe campus, in order to help them transition to an English-speaking universities worldwide. Aistė Motekaitienė, LCC Marketing Director How did the Middle East Scholars program start? From its inception LCC’s institutional vision has been to develop a generation of leaders for the countries of the former Soviet Union. We have been very successful in expanding our student recruitment in Eastern […]

2017-12-03

Scientists of Klaipeda University will Create an Autonomous Green Port of the Future

The Research Council of Lithuania announced which scientific research projects to be implemented by world-class research groups won the competition and will be funded. A team of KU researchers under the leadership of prof. dr. Arūnas Andziulis, Head of the Department of Information and Statistics of the Faculty of Marine Technologies and Natural Sciences, won a grant of €695,000 for a scientific research project An Autonomous Green Port of the Future: Development of a New Container Loading Method and a Prototype of the System. The aim of the project is to examine the possibilities of automating the port […]

2017-12-11

The First German Research Institute in the Baltic States as a Priority of Regional Policy

On December 7, Rector of Klaipėda University prof. dr. habil. Eimutis Juzeliūnas signed a cooperation agreement with Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Winfried Böttcher, Head of Klaus Mehnert European Studies and Research Institute. Under this agreement, the first German research institute in the Baltic States begins to operate at Klaipėda University. On December 8, a scientific discussion Regional Europe took place whose aim was to present the aims and aspirations of the Institute to the KU academic community. Klaipėda University, a University of the Baltic Sea Region The Rector of Klaipėda University, who addressed the guests in German, said […]

2017-12-12

International Students’ Reasons for Choosing Lithuania and LCC University

LCC International University this year welcomed many new students and is proud of it’s international community. At the moment there are students from 39 different countries and the greatest numbers are from Ukraine, USA, Russia, Georgia, and of course Lithuania. When asked why they decided to choose Lithuania and studies at LCC International University, first year students mentioned the English language aspect, the international community as well as the highly qualified professors and Liberal Arts educational model. Eduarda, an Ukrainian student, reports that she is not entirely happy with the quality of the education system back home. Being a FLEX […]

2017-12-28

Feels like home: Lithuania in the eyes of foreign students

At the end of the year, we’ve decided to share one of the memorable moments of 2017 – the discussion with international students on studying in Lithuania held at the Opinion Festival this September. Four students from different parts of the world and different cultural background – Aya from Japan (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences), Hasan from Turkey (Vytautas Magnus University), Aleko from Georgia (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) and Omer from Pakistan (Vilnius University) – took part in the Erasmus+ moderated discussion and shared their thoughts about Lithuania. What were your very first impressions about Lithuania? Aleko (Georgia, VGTU): My first […]

2018-01-03

Scientist from Australia: Lithuanian Tourism Has a Lot to Offer

The Department of Recreation and Tourism of Klaipėda University was visited by dr. Brenda Dyack from the University of Canberra in Australia. “We are glad to have a scientist with world-wide scientific experience who is ready to share it with our students and to exchange scientific insights with KU scientists at Klaipėda University. Brenda Dyack works not only in Australia, but also in Canada, and has extensive research experience in the area of tourism and recreation,” said prof. dr. Diana Šaparnienė, Head of the Department of Recreation and Tourism. Lectures to the KU community Over her two-week stay […]

2018-01-04

With the help of international students, Lithuanian language and culture is spreading worldwide

The winter session of Lithuanian language and culture courses just started at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU). Yesterday the university welcomed newly arrived students as well as some familiar faces. Aya Kimura from Japan, who participated in the courses in summer of 2017 and who already has deep knowledge of Lithuanian language and culture (recently, she translated three Lithuanian children’s books to Japanese), shared her plans to open a centre of Baltic studies in Tokyo. Aya believes this centre will help one of the oldest languages in the world spread in Japan and will deepen the cultural ties […]

2018-01-07

Lithuania becomes Associate Member State of CERN

Today, the Republic of Lithuania became an Associate Member State of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Lithuania’s relationship with CERN dates back to 2004, when an International Cooperation Agreement was signed between the Organization and the government of the Republic of Lithuania setting priorities for the further development of scientific and technical cooperation between CERN and Lithuania in high-energy physics. One year later, in 2005, a Protocol to this Agreement was signed, paving the way for the participation of Lithuanian universities and scientific institutions in high-energy particle physics experiments at CERN. Since 2004, CERN and Lithuania successfully collaborated […]

2018-01-23

The Education Exchanges Support Foundation received the award for contribution to international education

On Jan. 24th, the 4th anniversary celebration of Studying Abroad Magazine of Guangming Daily, with the theme of Tide Future Education, was held in Beijing, during which the Education Exchanges Support Foundation received the award for contribution to international education. “We live in a global world and if we want to improve the quality of education, we have to cooperate with each other, share knowledge, experiences”, said Ms. Rasa Bubeliene, representative of the Embassy of Lithuania in China, who accepted the award on behalf of the Education Exchanges Support Foundation. The Education Exchanges Support Foundation, which coordinates the […]

2018-01-24

Scientist of Marine Research Institute of Klaipėda University received a Dr. Eng. Jerzy Masłowski Prize

The publication Charophytes in the Estuarine Curonian Lagoon: Have the Changes in Diversity, Abundance, and Distribution Occurred since the Late 1940s? has been chosen as the best scientific article dedicated to the biology of the Baltic Sea, published in the journal Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies in 2017. Authors of the article dr. Zofija Sinkevičienė from the Nature Research Centre in Vilnius and scientists of the Marine Research Institute of Klaipėda University dr. Martynas Bučas, Raimonda Ilginė, dr. Diana Vaičiūtė, dr. Marija Kataržytė and dr. Jolita Petkuvienė received a Dr. Eng. Jerzy Masłowski Prize. The article was prepared in the framework […]