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By Amina Nazarli

The prestigious Lithuanian universities will present their education opportunities within the 10th International Exhibition "Education and Career" to be held in Baku on October 7-9.

Lithuanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Valdas Lastauskas said that his country will be represented by eight leading universities, which will familiarize the Azerbaijani youth with their education opportunities.

“Azerbaijan is considered as one of the most promising markets for the Lithuanian higher education institutions, wishing to attract foreign students,” the ambassador said at a reception organized in honor of representatives of Lithuanian universities and Education Exchanges Support Foundation on October 6.

The exhibition will put on display Lithuanian prestigious universities such as Vilnius University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University , Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian Pedagogical University, Academy of Music and Theatre, and others.

Representatives of the Lithuanian universities will present visitors undergraduate, graduate, MBA, doctorate, second education, as well as foreign language courses for business communication program, practice and training programs.

The diplomat said that the number of young Azerbaijanis, who chose Lithuanian universities as their alma mater, is growing annually.

“If in 2011/12 academic year some 53 Azerbaijani students enrolled in Lithuania, then in 2012/13 their number reached 102, while their number exceeded 300 in 2015,” he said.

Lastauskas noted that a considerable part of Azerbaijani students took advantage of the state grants offered by the Lithuanian government.

In recent years the Azerbaijani youth also began to show interest in learning in Lithuania and their number gets bigger every year, according to him.

In total, 118 educational institutions from 14 countries will participate in the three-day exhibition to be held in the capital city.

The educational exhibition will feature universities and colleges from Azerbaijan, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Jordan that will acquaint visitors with the education programs in the institutions they represent.

National stands at the exhibition will be presented by Poland (Go Poland), Lithuania (Study in Lithuania) and Turkey (Study in Turkey).

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