Full Coverage: Lithuania

18.08.2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

26.05.2003 UNESCO is organising this week a training seminar in Druskinenkai, Lithuania, for teachers and teacher trainers. The seminar aims to promote developing strategies and syllabi for ICT integration in Lithuania's general education.

29.10.2002 A three-year initiative on Internet training in Lithuania will help more than 800 women and their organizations harness the power of information and communications technology (ICT). Women in the rural and less developed areas of Lithuania will benefit from this programme.

23.10.2002 A new project plans to help women in Lithuania's rural and less developed areas go on the Internet. It will set up five regional cyber centres and provide equipment to women's organisations and develop training methods and an ICT handbook in Lithuanian.

14.02.2002 Young people are Lithuania's most important resource, and the country faces the challenge of ensuring that they have the fullest possible opportunity to lead meaningful lives within the European family, says the country's new National Human Development Report.

27.08.2001 Releases of hazardous pesticides and heavy metals into the Baltic Sea area have been cut in half since the late 1980s, according to an inter-governmental environment group.

18.10.2000 Once an oasis of political calm in Central and Eastern Europe, Lithuania is now set to be wracked by internecine clashes between members of a new ruling coalition elected last week. Howard Jarvis looks at how this could slow market reforms and dampen the country's single-minded drive for NATO and European Union membership.