Over the past few months the Baltic States have witnessed an influx of residence permit applications from Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian citizens. The reason behind this is clear; the deteriorating political and economic conditions in these countries. 12 Russian video game development companies have already chosen to set up their new headquarters in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. Marielle Vitureau reports on Radio France Internationale. With its narrow streets winding in between baroque churches, its charming cafes, sprawling green spaces, and multilingualism, Vilnius seems to have everything going for her. But it is, first and foremost, Lithuania’s EU membership – includi... More

The Lithuanian Government has approved amendments to rules for the development and implementation of public private partnership projects (PPPs). The amendments are aimed at improving the procedures for the implementation of PPPs and accelerating the whole process. The new rules will simplify the requirements when preparing a PPP project. New terms for drawing up and evaluating PPP documentation will be established and the whole decision-making process, including new deadlines for approval, will be fixed. For example, project owners will have to begin procurement procedures on a project within 120 days of governmental approval. Moreover, the period of time taken by the relevant authorities t... More

Apple recently announced its best apps of the year, and the winner for best iPad app is Pixelmator, a powerful new image editor, created by two Lithuanian entrepreneurs, brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailides.  “We worked really hard on Pixelmator for almost two years: staying late at night and working weekends researching, adding, perfecting, polishing, then repeating the same process again and again to build or improve the features and core foundation of the app to impossibility – all that for you to later notice or simply feel the awesomeness of Pixelmator for iPad”, Saulius and Aidas posted on Pixelmator blog shortly after the announcement. Pixelmator got a lot... More

In autumn, some new stars may begin to shine in global startup ecosystem. This year, Enterprise Lithuania, public entity, and community Startup Lithuania are continuing the successful Startup Lithuania Roadshow, which was launched last year. As part of the project, the country’s most promising startups will travel to San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, Dublin and Helsinki in autumn to look for investments. After the selection which began in May, the training conducted by local and foreign experts throughout July, and two intermediate team progress evaluations, it has been decided to invite eight of Lithuania’s most promising startups working in fields of medicine, e-commerce, innov... More

During his visit to the Unites States on 16–21 February 2014, Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas met with Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Charlie Bolden and shared ideas on current space policy developments in Lithuania as well as discussed cooperation possibilities. In the succeeding meeting with the NASA experts, the areas, in which Lithuania would like to cooperate, as well as NASA’s international cooperation policy were presented in more detail. According to Minister Evaldas Gustas, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is devoting increasingly more attention to international cooperation with new space-oriented ... More