by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University
Being Updated March 2007-August 2007
The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Lithuania. There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page. Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site. Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions. Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link. Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.
Kaunas University of Technology (E, Lt) "Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), the largest technical university in the Baltic States, is the second largest institution of higher education of Lithuania."
Klaipeda University (E, Lt, R) (includes Search Engine) (.lt site) "Klaipėda University, being one of the youngest among Lithuanian university level high schools, gives its priorities to education of the intellectual society and person. It administers fundamental and applied research, is engaged in educative, cultural, consultative, experimental activities, and meets the unique requirements of Lithuania as a maritime state. The University contributes to the preservation of the cultural identity of the country and historical succession when creating a present-day Europe."
Lithuanian Veterinary Academy (E, Lt ) (.lt site) "The mission and strategic objectives of Lithuanian Veterinary Academy are to train highly qualified veterinary doctors, animal husbandry technologists, veterinary food safety specialists and scientists conforming to international standards and requirements; to develop modern fundamental, applied and experimental research in biomedical sciences, veterinary medicine and zootechnics."
Siauliai University (E, Lt) (includes Search Engine, Virtual Tour) (.lt site) "It is a university of a classical type. The University has 8 faculties: Education, Natural Sciences, Humanities (with European Studies Institute), Mathematics and Informatics, Arts, Social Sciences, Social Welfare and Disability Studies, Technology"
Vilnius Pedagogical University (Lt) (includes Search Engine, Transaction) (.lt site) "The institution comprises 10 faculties - those of Physics and Technology; Natural Sciences, History, Lithuanian Philology; Mathematics; Pedagogy and Psychology; Slavonic Philology; Faculty of Social Sciences and Foreign Languages. There are 52 departments; 14 scientific divisions (an institute, 2 scientific centres, 11 scientific laboratories); a library; a publishing house; the Centres of In-Service Teacher Training, Language Teaching, Information, Culture and Sports; a University Secondary School and an outreach teaching base in Tamosava for field practice in Biology and Geography."
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (E, Lt) (includes Search Engine) (.lt site) "The university's scope of education and research is rather versatile and of high academic level. The aim of the university is to do what is mostly helpful for the state."
Vilnius University (E, Lt) (includes Search Engine, Transaction, Video, Virtual Tour) (.lt site) "The mission of Vilnius University is to create, accumulate and disseminate knowledge by ensuring continuity of authentic university culture distinguished by the atmosphere where old traditions and new ideas enrich each other. Freedom of thought and diversity of opinions are the main values of the University community. A unity of research and studies is the core principle of the overall activity of the University."
Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas) (E, Lt) (includes Search Engine, Transaction) (.lt site) "The university was the first to introduce a system of studies structured on several levels which, when completed, leads to the granting of the Bachelor's or Masters degree as well as the Doctoral degree."
Other Education Links
Center for Innovative Education (E, Lt) (.lt site) "The mission of the centre is to support and to affect the change process in education to promote the values of open society and equal access to a quality education for all children in Lithuania."
Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (E, Lt) (.lt site) "Co-ordinates the regular self-analysis process of research/development and pedagogical activity of the State and Non-state research and higher education institutions."
FP6 National
contact points in Lithuania (E, Lt, R)
(.lt
site) "Some
objectives are to coordinate the EU Framework Programmes, currently the Sixth
Framework program (FP6),
the European initiative EUREKA
for strengthening cooperation among companies and research institutions in the
field of advanced technologies, and COST,
an intergovernmental framework for the coordination of nationally funded
research at the European level."
Higher Education and Science in
Lithuania (E, Lt)
(.lt
site) "Summary of legal acts, educational system, research
and development, statistics, and international cooperation."
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (E, Lt) (.lt site) "It is within its province to analyze problems of science strategy, priorities, integration, and development in Lithuania, as well as to consider the principal aspects of the Academy's organization and activities."
Litnet (E, Lt) (includes Transaction) (.lt site) "The Academic and Research Computer Network LITNET is the national network, which interconnects nodes in major Lithuanian cities from where educational and research institutions as well as schools and colleges located in a region are being reached. The principal goal of the LITNET is to provide advanced and high quality internetworking services to all kinds of educational establishments in the country."
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Language Key |
| (E) English |
| (Lv) Latvian |
| (Lt) Lithuanian |
| (Est) Estonian |
| (R) Russian |
| (G) German |
| (F) French |
| (S) Swedish |
| (P) Polish |
| other languages are fully spelled out |