This week, the plan on how will “Science Island” with planetarium, interactive lab, conference halls, workshops and other spaces will look like in the Nemunas Island was introduced. The construction is planned to start at the beginning of 2020. The contest of international architecture vision won Australian and Spanish architects F. Jerez and B. Perez[…]

How will smart cities of Europe develop and to which direction it will move after 2020? In the past three years, Kaunas has been putting a lot of efforts in improving the infrastructure in parallel of trying to manage strategic issues of long-term development. Nevertheless, Kaunas is the only Lithuanian city that is a participant[…]

Kaunas architecture of interwar which is rated as a symbol of European heritage in 2015 continues to pursue UNESCO world heritage. The travelling architectural exhibition of modernism “Architecture of Optimism: the Kaunas Phenomenom, 1918 – 1940” that started this year will move to Belgium this week. During this publicity campaign on local and international scale[…]

Christmas is coming, so citizens of Kaunas are already preparing for the upcoming events. The bond of Christmas spirit is not only being strengthened by light decorations, but also by various events, projects and Christmas attractions. This year Kaunas City will put everything into one big calendar. “In order to prepare for Christmas and enrich[…]

The third year of Kaunas city friendship with Hiratsuka city, Japan, was officially signed by signatures of city leaders on a Memorandum last week. The same cooperation agreement was signed by the representatives of Kaunas Teachers’ Qualification Center and the Hiratsuka Education Board, as well as the heads of the primary Kaunas Panemunė and Hiratsuka[…]

For the first time in Lithuania, the Baltic States, and the Northern Europe, the Feature Conference of Global Media and Information Literacy Week will be held at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) on 24-25 October. The event, the 8th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference, will welcome about 300 participants from all over[…]

At the initiative of foreign investors operating in Kaunas, the International Business Community Kaunas (IBCK), which was established in July, set up Kaunas International Investors and other business stakeholders in the city on the 20th of September in the first meeting of the community. The main and the most important goal of this community is[…]

Kaunas IN has launched “Kaunas Startups” accelerator — an unprecedented initiative in Lithuania, which will bring together world class business professionals and startups for an intensive two-month program. The accelerator’s main aim is to provide startups with the know-how, help B2B tech start-ups with potential business ideas get into market, find connections and potential investors[…]

Lighting and electronics company Hella officially opened the factory in Kaunas FEZ on Thursday. The new Hella factory is designed to content the growing demand for electronic solutions in Europe. Initially, the capacities will be directed towards the components of the photoelectronics, and in the near future, it is planned to expand production by incorporating[…]

Nemunas island in Kaunas city center will give Kaunas residents another special accent. There were planted half a dozen Sakura trees, which will bloom next spring. Sakura trees planting crocheted the Sugihara Week events that took place in Kaunas. “This will be a symbolic Friendship Park. It will remind the society of the relations of[…]