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Quiet Solidarity: How Lithuania Practices Hospitality

  • 2026-02-06
  • VDU

By Dainius Genys* & Dmytro Mamaiev** * TThe author is a member of The Migration and Intercultural Diasporic Life Laboratory, a research platform within the VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute. The Laboratory brings together an interdisciplinary team of s...

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Founder of the Start-up 'Freya Cultivation Systems' Dr. Gediminas Kudirka: Lithuania Is a Good Place to Build Science-based Businesses

“What’s the worst that could happen? We’ll just lose money.” These were the words Gediminas Kudirka, Doctor of Agronomy and an alumnus of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), recalls saying over lunch at a fast-food restaurant with a coursemate – words that marked the b...

'Autojuta' CEO Rasa Sinkevičienė: A True Career Is Doing What You Enjoy

“Business isn’t a competition where the outcome is clear-cut: you either win or lose. You either perform well, change, and adapt to the market, or… you don’t. There are no winners or losers – only those who manage to keep moving forward,” says Rasa Sinkevičien...

'Autojuta' CEO Rasa Sinkevičienė: A True Career Is Doing What You Enjoy

“Business isn’t a competition where the outcome is clear-cut: you either win or lose....

Five tips for better waste sorting at home

Waste sorting in Latvia is becoming increasingly important, as it has a direct impact on resource...

Latvia’s Creative Agency 'McCann Riga' Recognised as the Best in the Baltics

“McCann Riga” has been named this year’s best creative agency in the Baltics. T...

Entrepreneur Gediminas Kvietkauskas: 'You Won’t Find Me Where There Are Boundaries'

“It’s very sad to see businesses that lack creativity. These are often large, overgro...

Studies Abroad: An Adventure and One of the Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make

“Doing a semester abroad was one of the best decisions I have made. My advice for other stu...

Chairman of the Kaunas Regional Court Marius Bartninkas: 'Law Is Not Mathematics, Where Two Plus Two Equals Four'

“Could we really, and would we want to, entrust artificial intelligence with resolving disp...

Latvia Education Accelerator Study: Young People’s Career Choices Increasingly Diverge from Economic Reality

Latvian young people’s career choices are increasingly drifting away from the sectors where...

Pilot Training Market 2025: Ab Initio Growth Contrasts with Type Rating Slowdown

The global flight training market in 2025 was largely defined by contrasts. Initia...

Record number of nominees vie for Estonia’s top startup title

Estonia’s leading startups, investors and contributors to the development of the startup ec...

Why Do Good Goals Stay 'on Paper' - and How Can We Change That?

January is often the time when employees and managers across many organisations agree on goals fo...

Europe needs to stand up for Ukraine and not rely on the United States

On August 15, US President Donald Trump invited Russia’s brutal dictator Vladimir Putin to ...

Riga to Host Major European Forum on Labour Market Transformation in the Age of AI

On 16 March 2026, Riga will host the international forum “Future of Work in the Age of AI&r...

Global Equity Markets in 2025: A Pseudo Roller Coaster – How Rough Will the Ride Be in 2026?

2025 turned out to be a paradoxical pseudo "roller coaster" ride that was more frighten...

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