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Culture Minister visits UNESCO Added 2019-05-09 On May 3 in Paris,  Lithuania‘s Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas met with the Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Mechtild Rössler and  Chief of the Europe and North America Unit at the World Heritage Centre Isabelle...
Permanent Delegate of Lithuania to UNESCO: member states of the organization are seriously concerned about the deteriorating situation in Crimea Added 2019-03-29 On March 28, during an information meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Permanent Delegate of Lithuania to UNESCO, Ambassador Irena Vaišvilaitė expressed the concern of almost thirty UNESCO member states about the deteriorating situation in...
A Lithuanian scientist receives L‘Oreal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” program prestigious award Added 2019-03-15 At the ceremony held on the 14th of March 2019 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, selected scientists received L’Oreal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” program prestigious awards. In the category of “International Rising Talents”, among the 14...
Increasing representation of renowned Lithuanian women on Wikipedia Added 2019-03-08 On March 8, Permanent delegation of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO, in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO took part in the “Wiki4Women“ initiative. In celebration of International Women‘s Day, numerous Wikipedia...
Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Added 2019-02-01 On 27 January, in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Permanent Delegate of Lithuania to UNESCO Ambassador Irena Vaisvilaite participated in a screening of the feature documentary “Who Will Write Our History” at...
Lithuania contributes to the initiative of the revival of Mosul Added 2019-01-23 Permanent Delegate of Lithuania to UNESCO, Ambassador Irena Vaišvilaitė, informed Lazare Eloundou Assomo, Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre, in Paris on 17 December, that Lithuania is joining the international initiative aimed at the...
VMU to Host Annual UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Conference Added 2018-10-17 For the first time in the Baltic States and the Northern Europe, the Feature Conference of Global Media and Information Literacy Week will be held at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania on 24-25 October. The event, the 8th...
Lithuania is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its accession to UNESCO Added 2016-11-24 On the 30th of October, the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO together with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society organized a charitable Gala Concert featuring Lithuania’s foremost opera prima donna Ms. Violeta Urmana, UNESCO Artist...
Conference on 2005 Convention and Sustainable Development in Lithuania Added 2016-03-18 The Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and the Embassy of Canada in Lithuania, is organizing on Friday 18 March, 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania, a conference on the 2005...
UNESCO General Director designates Lithuanian opera singer, Ms Violeta Urmana, as UNESCO artist for Peace Added 2016-03-07 The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will designate the renowned Lithuanian opera singer Ms Violeta Urmana as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in a ceremony at the Organization’s Headquarters on 7 March at 5:45 pm.