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The team of the Department of Semiconductor Physics of Vilnius University (VU), headed by professor Juozas Vidmantis Vaitkus, under the framework of the AIDA project was to study the possibility to use a microwave absorption technique for radiation monitoring in the proton irradiation facility at CE...

The man who threatened to explode a bomb outside the Lithuanian President's Office on Wednesday evening is mentally unstable, Vilnius police chief Kęstutis Lančinskas said.

Physics professor Artūras Žukauskas was inaugurated as the new rector of Lithuania's oldest education institution, Vilnius University, at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Professor Artūras Žukauskas, head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics at Vilnius University's Institute of Applied Research, has been elected rector of Vilnius University for a five-year term.

In her latest book, Three Lithuanian Europes: the Nation, Europe, and the EU in Modern Identity, philosopher Nerija Putinaitė's quest to flag the wellsprings of Lithuanians' European identity guides readers from the real demise of an imaginary pre-historic golden age, to a barbarian king's Latin bap...

Scholars will discuss the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979–1989 from a transnational perspective, especially in terms of strategies for (re)integrating veterans during a two-day workshop at the European Humanities University. On February 12 at 5 PM they present their research in a round...

On 22 January, Telecommunications Research Centre M2M (machine-to-machine) laboratory was opened officially at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University.

In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at t...

QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of emerging Europe and central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) made it to the top 50, ranking in the 32nd place. One more Lithuanian institution, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, ranks slightly lower, in th...

The Ministry of Education and Science has addressed higher education institutions urging to announce the lowest passing entrance scores in 2015. The necessity to establish admission threshold is provided for in the Law on Higher Education and Research.

Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information ...

Vilnius University and CSC Baltic signed a partnership agreement that will ensure partnership with individual faculties and the university as a whole. The agreement was signed by the interim rector of Vilnius University Professor Juras Banys and the CEO of CSC Baltic Antanas Ursulis, Invest Lithuani...

Vilnius University has opened a modern laser complex Naglis at the Laser Research Centre, the university said.

Invitation of President Dalia Grybauskaitė to the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows her international recognition, says political analyst Tomas Janeliūnas from the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University.

Economists from eight different research institutions of Lithuania have presented the results of the common project entitled Long-Term Competitiveness Challenges of Lithuanian Economy. Demography and emigration, they say, is the most pressing issues in planning for the future.

The Lithuanian Cabinet on Monday earmarked 151,000 litas (EUR 43,700) from its reserve fund for treatment and rehabilitation of Ukrainians injured in the fighting in Donbass, eastern Ukraine.

Colloquium Vilnense invites you to a session at Vilnius University on the survival of Lithuanian Jews in the GULag and their way to Displaced Persons Camps after the end of the war. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius) and Markus Nesselrodt (Berlin) will present their ongoing research.

A research agreement was signed between Odontika Clinic and Vilnius University back in October. Vilnius University will undertake research into an applied research problem as part of a first phase - staged partnership - between Lithuanian’s leading research University and Odontika.

For the second consecutive year, the Western Union Foundation Lithuania is giving grants to support non-government organizations and social initiatives in Lithuania.

The ‘short 20th century’ — as opposed to ‘the long 19th century’ — was characterized by high levels of destruction. Wars, ideological conflicts, population mobilizations, massive displacements, and genocides lay at the heart of the emergence of modernity across the continent. These questions are add...