On April 20-22, the representatives of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) participated at the international exhibition GHEDEX, focusing on Higher Education, Training and Career Opportunities in the Sultanate of Oman. About eighteen thousand people from all over the Persian Gulf visited this international event.

 

Last spring VGTU established cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman. Because of this cooperation, the Ministry of Higher Education of Oman included VGTU into the trusted universities‘ list. That means that Oman students have the opportunity to receive scholarship for their studies in Lithuania.

 

Dainius Pavalkis, the Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania, went on his visit to the Sultanate of Oman, where discussed the issues of educational experience of higher education institutions of Lithuania. Asta Radzevičienė, the Vice-Rector for International Relations, and Dalius Mažeika, the Head of the Department of Information Systems of the Faculty of Fundamental Sciences of VGTU, accompanied the Minister together with the representatives of some Lithuanian higher education institutions. They attended official meetings at the Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman. The parties concerned discussed the cooperation on the issues of training, organisation of qualification and specialisation courses as well as other issues.