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Improved with VOSS!In the first month of 2023, two-year project „Integration of the Voss model for the development of cultural accessibility and strengthening of cultural education in Panevėžys region“ activities, implemented by Panevėžys district municipality administration together with partners – Panevėžys district Naujamiestis Cultural center–Art Gallery and Voss Cultural School from Norway, has ended.
2023 04 18 12:27
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The new Draugoteka mobile app is launchedThe public libraries of Panevėžys, Klaipėda and Kaunas districts offer meaningful, useful and high-quality leisure activities for children and teenagers aged 10-15. Draugoteka - a free, new and innovative mobile app for Android and iOS mobile devices - has been launched.
2023 03 09 15:48
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Lithuanian app helps children with language disorders to communicateDo you know how children with language disorders communicate? The Alternative Communication - Symbol System method has been developed to help children who are unable to express their thoughts properly in words. The idea is to help the child to express his or her thoughts by using paper cards with different pictures on which the child can put together word combinations to communicate with others.
2023 02 25 14:07
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Mediators, social workers will assist the Probation ServiceThe Lithuanian Probation Service, as part of the project "Development of Quality Based Lithuanian Correctional Service System" is launching new activities at Pravieniškės Prison No.1 and Vilnius Prison to help prisoners prepare for life in freedom. Probation officers will be assisted by electronic monitoring specialists, mediators and social workers.
2023 02 24 16:30
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Unfrozen life: making sense of the war through family and artLiving through the war, or next to it, is a life-altering experience. Both are traumatic in their own way. Lithuania has become a temporary home for Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland. For Lithuanians, this war is a painful reminder and a real threat that they have lived with every day since the start of the war. How can these experiences be related? Can they enrich both nations’ understanding and help them make sens
2023 01 23 17:05
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Locking the Door at Night—CybervigilanceThe annual hit to the global economy from cybercrime was estimated at more than $6 trillion in 2021. If that were a nation, then the country of cybercrime would be the world's third-largest economy after the United States and China, notes Cybercrime Magazine. Contributions from the EEA and Norway Grants have created a team to investigate human behaviour in cybersecurity and formulate methodologies to fight back. The project Advancing Human Performan
2023 01 23 17:03
Read moreInterim evaluation of the 2014–2021 EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms for Lithuania
In order to evaluate the implementation process, relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact of the 2014–2021 EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms for Lithuania, private limited company UAB „Smart Continent LT“, upon the request of the Lithuanian National Focal Point, conducted the interim evaluation of the Financial Mechanisms.
2023 01 11 13:24
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Strengthening the prevention of domestic violenceThis year Lithuania has seen fewer outbreaks of domestic violence than in the previous year, which were particularly high due to the quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the problem remains relevant, with a hundred and a half cases of violence reported every day. The Police Department's measures, such as the purchase of body cameras, a risk management information system and the training of thousands of officers, are expected t
2022 12 22 11:33
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Behind the scenes of "Tower of Babel": from an idea to the processTower of Babel. Planet Earth/Game Over/Reset - one of the largest international productions in the history of Lithuanian theatre. Four European theatres - Norway, Iceland, Hungary and Lithuania (The National Kaunas Drama Theatre) - joined forces to create a joint production. The creators share their impressions and thoughts about working together with their partners.
2022 12 12 17:31
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The project known as the 'cultural heritage ambulance' completes its first phase"To prevent heritage from losing its pulse" - this is the aim of the FIXUS Mobilis team, which has been successfully operating in Lithuania for three years now, taking care of the preventive maintenance of cultural heritage objects. The activity is similar to that of doctors: they go to see the patients - cultural objects; they are given the most appropriate treatment - preventive maintenance work is ca
2022 12 12 17:16
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