Education, Science and Culture Committee

Members of the Committee:

• Vytautas Juozapaitis, Chair, Lithuania
• Dagmāra Beitnere-Le Galla, Vice Chair, Latvia
• Signe Kivi, Vice Chair, Estonia
• Artūras Žukauskas, Member, Lithuania
• Iveta Benhena-Bēkena, Member, Latvia
• Aigars Bikše, Member, Latvia
• Janīna Kursīte-Pakule, Member, Latvia
• Helle-Moonika Helme, Member, Estonia

Priorities of the Committee in 2021 under the Lithuanian presidency:

• Strategic partnerships in education and science: conclusions from crisis and need for more joint research and gathering of data
• Baltic Road Map 2030: how ready is our cooperation in times of crisis?
• Employment and labour market
• Cross-border cultural cooperation of the Baltic States
• Common information network of the Baltic States
• Space systems, space-based technologies (research, joint projects, pooling of resources, satellite programmes)

Implementation of the recommendations of the Baltic Assembly:

• Joint science and research projects of the Baltic States
• Cooperation in higher and vocational education and training (joint study programmes and projects)
• New Memorandum of Understanding on Closer Cooperation of the Baltic States in Higher Education, Research and Innovation
• Translation and publication of the works of the BA Prize winners
• Cultural cooperation and minimising environmental footprint

Priorities of the Committee for 2016-2020:

Priorities of the Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly for 2016 – 2020 (download)