Kaunas University of Technology

Drought is becoming a more serious challenge every year, affecting up to 55 million people worldwide and posing a major threat to animals and plants. Drought stress leads to biochemical and physiological changes in plants, reducing nutrient levels and damaging the ecosystem, thus affecting human hea...

When Maria Rosa Rojas Noguera from Venezuela decided to continue her education and study for a master’s degree, she had her heart set on Australia. Still, she unexpectedly found herself thriving in the green landscapes of Lithuania. "I didn’t choose Kaunas. In a sense, I’d say Kaunas chose me," says...

Aysu Ismayilova’s bold decision to leave a prestigious university in Baku for Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) was a turning point in her life. Despite initial scepticism from those around her, Aysu’s choice to pursue a Materials Physics and Nanotechnology degree at KTU has led to remarkable gl...

When Fallon Clare Manhanga arrived in Lithuania in 2016 to pursue her bachelor’s degree at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), she planned to return to Zimbabwe after graduation. However, life had its own way of unfolding. "Sometimes we plan, but God has different ideas," she says with a smile. Y...

Most people can no longer imagine everyday life without communicating by email, searching for information, or ordering goods online. Safiyya Baba-zada, a Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) student, says that digitalisation is changing people’s lives by making them simpler, and companies’ operatio...

With the world getting more advanced every day, artificial intelligence (AI) based software is finding its way into various areas of human activities. Institutions of higher education and their students are no exception. Discussions have been heating up about students shamelessly using ChatGPT to wr...

“Lithuania has far exceeded my expectations,” says Deivid Mico from Albania, studying aviation engineering at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). Expecting an average post-soviet republic, he arrived in a European country with perfect infrastructure and a contemporary educational system.

FinTech means technology-enabled financial innovation. European Commission emphasizes that there is a strong need to improve the competitiveness of European FinTech companies, creating a common regulatory approach across all countries. This could foster innovative solutions in banks and FinTech comp...

An interactive educational game “Flight across the Atlantic” featuring the legendary flight of Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas was announced as one of the winners in the global digital innovation competition World Summit Awards (WSA). The product was created by the team of innov...

There are many myths concerning artificial intelligence (AI) today: people say that robots will replace human at work, or that the algorithms collecting big data will use it against people. Some of these concerns are grounded in reality: numbers just a few years ago had shown that robots would take ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education system worldwide. Many learning and teaching processes today take place online. Although such processes are not new, according to Vladas Lašas, Chairman of the Board of the Lithuanian Business Angels Network (LitBAN.LT), the changes were there, but th...

In the middle of November, Lithuania has signed an agreement with the United States to buy four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters that will replace the Soviet Mi-8T still used by Lithuanian Armed Forces today. Soviet helicopter operational history exceeds 30 years, they are difficult to operate...

A team of researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences proposed a non-invasive method for detection of melanoma. A patented computer-aided diagnostic system developed by Lithuanian scientists proved to be more than 90% accurate in detecting malignancy...

Lithuanian respondents consume more sustainably in the home environment in comparison to the respondents in the UK – such conclusion was made by a group of researchers from Kaunas University of Technology School of Economics and Business (KTU SEB), Lithuania. After analysing the sustainable consumpt...

Gintarė Venzlauskaitė, a researcher at KTU Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, who has recently obtained her PhD at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, today is already a thousand miles away. Dr Venzlauskaitė is undertaking a four-month fellowship at one of the best in the world, Yale ...

In today’s context we can see that the challenges we are facing are affecting not only us, or other countries in Europe but all the world. This means that we can only solve them by taking decisions together. Problems are becoming more global, challenges are borderless: states are joining into unions...

KTU researchers together with colleagues from Latvia, Denmark, Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine, Czechia, Belarus and the US are developing multifunctional composite materials for aircraft, cars, wind power plants and other structure production. The international team of researchers aims at making the new ...

Students that choose technological sciences are welcome in many companies, including space technology and space research centres in Lithuania and abroad. In contemporary world, even startups are capable to fulfil great ideas. However, every new project needs someone to believe and to invest in it. D...

Lithuanian researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University synthesised and tested a bio-based resin for optical 3D printing. The bio-based resin made from renewable raw materials proved to be universal for both table-top 3D printers and state-of-the-art ultrafast laser, suita...

There are more connections between art and technologies than might appear from the first sight. The most obvious one – art needs tools and equipment and technological innovation cannot happen without involving creativity and improvisation, thinks Nerijus Čepulis, philosopher, Associate Professor at ...