Our weekly selection of the TOP news about Lithuania (23-04-21)
We invite you to check out our weekly selection of the TOP news about Lithuania:
Last autumn, EFIB 2022, Europe’s largest forum for the industrial biotechnology and the bioeconomy, was organised in Vilnius and has already shown results. High-tech experts from 18 countries agreed on the urgency of the economic and geopolitical threats facing Europe. The potential changes considered by the participants have been translated into EuropaBio’s EFIB Vilnius Statement, which Lithuania started implementing shortly after its publication.
Sector leaders series: Meet Inga Langaitė (VILNIUS.TECHFUSION)
The Vilnius TechFusion community is all about collaboration and spreading innovative ideas to push the city’s entire tech ecosystem forward. With this in mind, we are developing an ongoing interview series where we engage in discussions with Vilnius TechFusion leaders from different sectors to pick their brains and learn from their insights. The first of our interviews was conducted with Inga Langaite, CEO of Unicorns Lithuania, which is playing a key role in encouraging local startups to build the future of Lithuania.
The Lithuania Startup Ecosystem report (DEALROOM.CO)
With Startup Lithuania, Practica Capital, Triniti Jurex and Vilnius TechFusion, we’ve checked in with how the Lithuanian startup and venture capital ecosystem is doing, in numbers.
How Lithuanian instructors turn Ukrainian conscripts into soldiers (LRT)
Thousands of Ukrainians are receiving training in the United Kingdom, where Lithuanian instructors form a core group of instructors. After five weeks of basic training, the Ukrainian troops will then head into battle; many of them will not be seen again.
'I feel great empathy.' Ukrainian refugees build new lives in Lithuania (LRT)
The war in Ukraine, waged by Russia, has forced over 8 million people to seek refuge outside the country. Looking through the lens of people of different ages, professions, and statuses helps to understand how, persevering through personal tragedies, they return to some sense of “normality”.
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