This February Lidija Kraujalienė, lecturer at the Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, had teaching visit at Riga Technical University in Latvia, at the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management.

Vilnius Gediminas technical university is intended to strengthen the cooperation between one of the most prominent technical universities at Lithuania (VGTU) and Latvia (RTU). VGTU „LinkMenų Fabrikas“ was designed to create, develop and implement ideas. It is a great solution to support students with innovative infrastructure. Riga Technical university has very similar space called „Design Factory“, where students could come and use innovative infrastructure to realize theirs ideas.

Erasmus+ program gave the possibility to have teaching practice abroad, to be familiar with new teaching methods and strengthen internationalization activities, to build new contact base for future work. Lidija Kraujalienė was lecturing at RTU on such study subjects as “Project preparation and evaluation”, “Business projects”, “Design thinking for start-ups”. RTU students asked questions about learning processes, tools, work in teams, technology transfer and innovation activities, financial support programs at VGTU, bank of ideas and other.