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Two new research centers will make Lithuania innovative country

BC, Vilnius, 15.03.2016.Print version
Two research centers – the Joint Centre for Life Sciences and National Centre of Physical and Technological Sciences – opened in the Sunrise Valley in Vilnius will allow Lithuania to become an innovative country, President Dalia Grybauskaite and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius say, cites LETA/BNS.

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"When I was reading papers stating that Lithuania produces 10% of scientific lasers in the world, it sounds good but until you see and feel it, to cannot realize that. When you read that production of biotechnology in Lithuania exceeds the European average ten times, it also seems only a paper. Bet when you see yourself, you realize that Lithuania has prospects and that Lithuania will definitely be an innovative country. Science in Lithuania today is like a blooming flower as we open two very important world-class research centers," the president said during the opening ceremony.

 

The prime minister said these centers involve the best things Lithuania ha to offer, including world-class scientists and talented youth as well as the most sophisticated equipment.

 

"Today we are witnesses to a dream coming true. Lithuania's mecca of science has been opened, our brain centers. Scientists who work here create almost two thirds of Lithuania science products, measured by the number of publications and patents," the prime minister said.

 

The construction of the Joint Centre for Life Sciences and National Centre of Physical and Technological Sciences cost EUR 49.5 million and EUR 69.2 million. Both projects were co-funded by Lithuania and the EU.






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