Anyksciai town has a rich cultural heritage natural beauty and a strategically convenient geographical location These factors create favourable conditions for business development and investment Investors are given the opportunity to invest in a wide range of activities to begin from tourism and agricultural businesses and to end with industrial and service sectors The tourism sector is the business area with the highest potential in Anyksciai The city is famous for its natural attractions which attract tourists from all over the world Investments in tourism infrastructure such as hotels cafes and entertainment services can be very profitable Another important business niche is the agricultural sector The sixth largest municipality in Lithuania - Anykscai District Municipality covers a large agricultural area which offers opportunities for the development of farming livestock farming and processing of agricultural products creating new jobs and increasing diversification of the city's economy It is also worth noting the industrial and service sectors which have the potential to grow and expand in Anyksciai logistics centres or business services can be profitable considering the city's strategic geographic location and infrastructure development All these factors demonstrate that Anyksciai is an attractive region for business investments the city's economy receives a new impetus the well-being of its residents and the overall development of the town Anyksciai district offers a wide range of investment opportunities not only for Lithuanian but also foreign investors Infrastructure development is considered annually and appropriate programmes are foreseen in order to improve and modernise the infrastructure: - Transport - the district is easily accessible by car - Energy - the district has a reliable electricity supply energy projects are in the planning phase in  order to develop alternative energy sources approximately 20 municipal institutions and the lighting of Anyksciai city are powered by electricity from renewable energy sources - Communications - Anyksciai has a good internet and communications network to ensure efficient business operations and connectivity to the world we offer seven locations for investors/market to set up a business: The main purpose of the land plot is other land use the use method is recreational territories.  use types - industrial territories and warehousing objects’ territories; territories of objects with commercial purpose The main use of the land plot is other purpose land the use method is territories of objects with commercial purpose The main purpose of the land plot - land of other purpose The main purpose of use of the land plot is land of other purpose The main purpose of use of the land plot is other land use Land use types - territories of industrial and warehousing facilities; territories of transport and engineering communications service facilities The main purpose use of the land plot is other land use the use methods are territories of objects with commercial purpose Anyksciai is not only known as a beautiful and rich natural district but also has business potential and favourable investment conditions The concentration of businesses in various sectors and the tourism infrastructure provide a wide range of investment opportunities Investors upon starting business activities can take advantage of the district's unique natural conditions and its rapidly growing tourism potential investors can not only achieve financial success but also help further development of the region and contribute to the well-being of the local community For those seeking investments in North-Eastern Lithuania Anyksciai is an attractive and viable choice A subscription to The Baltic Times is a cost-effective way of staying in touch with the latest Baltic news and views enabling you full access from anywhere with an Internet connection. 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Try to sign in again and use the "Forgot Password" button If you have any questions please contact us "The idea of purifying silicon from silica sand has been considered but a feasibility study carried out by Teltonika's specialists has shown that it is not worthwhile to do so in Lithuania especially due to the extremely high pollution levels caused by the currently prevailing production processes on the market," the company told LRT.lt he valued the potential project at around 460 million euros "Then we would have the whole chain of chip production from the sand to the final product [inside the country]," he told BNS Teltonika currently has factories in Vilnius and Molėtai and plans to invest 3.7 billion euros in its technology centre in the Lithuanian capital over the next ten years The facility is expected to include a semiconductor chip manufacturing complex Teltonika was founded in 1998 and has 2,600 employees and 30 offices worldwide the solar plant will generate enough clean energy for 24,000 households European Energy, a Danish renewable energy company, is planning to build a 65MW solar project in the municipality of Anyksciai Considered to be one of the largest solar farms till date in the Baltics the new plant is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of this year the plant will span more than 120ha and generate about 90,000MWh annually This is expected to meet the power needs of nearly 24,000 homes The solar panels will be mounted on tracker systems which will adjust the panels according to the sunlight thereby helping generate optimal power generation throughout the day European Energy Lithuania country manager Tadeusas Konkovskis said: “It is a milestone for European Energy to have reached so far in pushing the renewable energy development in Lithuania the company has other solar projects in Jonava and Skuodas in the country which are scheduled to be connected to the grid by 2026 Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis European Energy CEO Knud Erik Andersen said: “Our goal in Lithuania is to support the transition into a green economy to contribute to the energy independence of all Baltics countries as well as the implementation of global goals related to climate change we are constantly investing to further strengthen the renewable energy sector of Lithuania.” the company has spent over €460m to develop clean energy projects in the country It aims to invest a total of over €1.6bn across wind and solar farms Earlier this month, the company announced plans to build a 115MW solar plant in Latvia The plant will generate 120,000MWh of clean electricity annually Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Savickas used a scintillating opening 100 meters to take out Chase Kalisz and win the 200 breast at the U.S While the name of the athlete who tested positive has not been revealed only one member of the Lithuanian swim team fits the description given by officials Rapsys will be looking for redemption following his 200 free DQ and his 4th place finish in the 400 free at 2019 Worlds Former NC State star Simonas Bilis is still seeking Olympic qualification and is competing this weekend in his home nation of Lithuania I Campionati nazionali in Lituania prenderanno il via oggi Tra gli iscritti c’è anche Danas Raspys Next event was the 200-meter breast — Titenis finished 3rd in his heat which was enough to advance him to the semi-finals Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our latest updates ANYKSCIAI – Olympic gold medalist Ruta Meilutyte had a strong meet at the Lithuanian Short Course Championships in Anyksciai Meilutyte kicked off the meet with a win in the 100-meter free as she clocked a 53.91 That fell just short of her national record of 53.54 from 2012 but blasted the meet record of 56.28 set by Jurate Scerbinskaite Meilutyte followed that up with a winning time of 29.47 in the women’s 50-meter breast  She didn’t need her world-leading speed of 28.81 from Worlds for the win this week Meilutyte’s third gold medal of the meet came by way of the women’s 50-meter free as she clocked a 25.07  That’s just a bit off her national record of 24.95 set here in 2013 Meilutyte came home with a fourth gold medal by smoking the meet record in the women’s 100-meter breast one of just a handful of 1:02s this year owned by she (1:02.43) and Alia Atkinson (1:02.36)  That time blasted the meet record of 1:09.08 set by Erika Bespalko in 2009 Meilutyte claimed her fifth gold with a Lithuanian record in the women’s 50-meter fly  She clocked a 26.62 to clear her 2013 record of 26.85 Danas Rapsys undercut the Lithuanian record in the men’s 200-meter free with a 1:44.19  That’s lower than the 1:45.08 set by Saulius Binevicius back in 2003 Rapsys doubled up with a 1:55.35 to win the men’s 200-meter back That was enough to clear his meet record of 1:55.56 from 2012 Rapsys also topped the men’s 200-meter fly in 1:55.19 for a Lithuanian record then claimed a fourth gold medal with a 51.92 in the men’s 100-meter fly  That just missed the 2009 national record of 51.81 set by Vytautas Janusaitis Giedrius Titenis topped the men’s 100-meter breast in 58.25 to lower his 2013 meet mark of 58.64  He just missed his 2009 national record of 58.03 Titenis claimed his second title of the meet with a 2:08.55 in the men’s 200-meter breast Titenis closed out a breaststroke sweep with a 27.07 in the men’s 50-meter breast  That just missed his national record of 26.91 Jurate Scerbinskaite hit the wall in 8:45.99 to win the women’s 800-meter free while also capturing the women’s 400-meter free in 4:15.79  Scerbinskaite kept on winning on the final day with a 2:02.03 in the women’s 200-meter free Ugne Mazutaityte topped the women’s 100-meter back in 1:02.35 She returned in the women’s 200-meter back with a 2:12.52 for the win  Mazutaityte then swept the backstroke events with a 29.23 in the women’s 50-meter back on the final day Grantas Dapkus claimed the men’s 400-meter IM in 4:34.80 while also winning the men’s 1500-meter free in 15:54.60 while Gytis Stankevicius snared the men’s 50-meter back title in 25.35 then clocked a 53.62 to win the men’s 100-meter back Povilas Strazdas clocked a 55.03 to win the men’s 100-meter IM while also winning the men’s 200-meter IM in 1:59.49 while Mindaugas Sadauskas posted a 49.04 to win the men’s 100-meter free and swept the sprint freestyles with a 22.42 to win the men’s 50-meter free Tadas Duskinas just missed his national record of 23.28 with a 23.59 to win the men’s 50-meter fly while Jonas Zakarauskas claimed the men’s 400-meter free in 3:58.03 Alina Taran won the women’s 200-meter fly in 2:28.76 while Erika Martisiute picked up the womens’ 400-meter IM title in 5:01.35 Raminta Dvariskyte turned in a 2:28.45 to win the women’s 200-meter breast while Giedre Grigonyte topped the women’s 100-meter fly in 1:02.87 Agne Sorakaite hit the wall in 1:05.21 for the women’s 100-meter IM victory while Vikte Labanauskaite touched in 2:20.86 for the women’s 200-meter IM title Results: Lithuanian Short Course Championships Welcome to our community. We invite you to join our discussion. Our community guidelines are simple: be respectful and constructive, keep on topic, and support your fellow commenters. 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of Europe’s longest narrow gauge railways it’s now a fun if hokey tourist train (£6 return Anyksciai Forest is where I’d recommend next It’s a place of whispering pines and as important to the legends of Lithuania as Sherwood is to Nottinghamshire the exploding colours say New England in autumn say well done for ditching the crowds and coming here I’m almost alone."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Admiring the serpent-like Sventoji River I kill the engine and climb on to the country’s first treetop walkway peering out into the canopy (£1; anyksciuparkas.lt) In the past year brown bears have been spotted overlooks Lake Rubikiai and has the air of a hunting lodge with wood-panelled charm and barrel saunas under the stars (B&B doubles from £67; anyksciai.gradiali.com) it’s hard not to love the place when dinner is steamed “zeppelins” delicious potato dumplings doused with sour cream the inn is a short detour from the Old Postal Tract built to connect Warsaw with St Petersburg in 1836 my eyes searching through the windscreen for the sort of revelation you’ll only get from a trip into the unknown dense woodland makes it an unlikely location for the Museum of Ethnocosmology a series of space-age towers and a stargazing observation deck looming above the pines (£7 book English tours in advance; etnokosmomuziejus.lt) Lithuanians have a proud history of astronomy and astrolabes and electron diffraction cameras in the mind-expanding galleries I feel as if I’m peeking into Brian Cox’s brain The thought that it’s a spaceship crash-landed from the future also sticks in my mind "}}]},{"name":"inlineAd2","children":[]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"On the subject of time travel Hotel Labanoras the following night is wildly different if better still (B&B doubles from £50; hotellabanoras.lt) grandma’s country house on the edge of Labanoras Regional Park with a dining room 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extraordinary The Hill of Crosses is such an unusual place (free; kryziukalnas.lt) Mike MacEacheran on his road trip in LithuaniaAs my drive continues The word is Queen Elizabeth II often had a bottle at her table • Kaunas: the art deco second city with a lively café culture — and no tourists If you’re in the mood for something more bucolic Steamed “zeppelins” were on the menu at Gradiali AnyksciaiALAMYBest of all in this part of Lithuania are the roadside hotels with wood-panelled charm and barrel saunas under the stars (B&B doubles from £67; anyksciai.gradiali.com) • 10 of the best European road trips The next morning’s road leads through a land of forests if better still (B&B doubles from £50; hotellabanoras.lt) one of a number of lakes in Aukstaitija National ParkGETTY IMAGESAfter a quick fuel stop the next morning (£1.10 a litre even if ours are the only two canoes on the water • Road trips? I’ve done them for decades. Here’s what I’ve learnt After an hour of light sculling the birds don’t bother with us Trakai Castle is located in the middle of Lake GalveSHUTTERSTOCKTo get back to Kaunas on my last day For the last time I set the sat-nav then turn back on to the road, engine growling. I motor towards the bright lights of Kaunas and, regrettably, to the airport and rental car drop-off. My hope is I’ll be back soon enough. Open roads, offbeat adventures and unexpected encounters? Now that does sound like a good idea for a road trip.Mike MacEacheran was a guest of Lithuania Travel (lithuania.travel) Become a subscriber and Daugavpils City Council in cooperation with the Municipal Administration of the Anykščiai Region in 2020 launched a joint Interreg V-A Latvia – Lithuania Programme 2014-2020 (www.latlit.eu) project No LLI – 472 "Joint Management of Urban Wetland Areas in border region Latvia-Lithuania" (Urb-Area) The aim of the project is to develop a new and effective approach to joint cross-border management of urban wetlands In order to raise environmental awareness and understanding of the need to preserve wetlands among residents and visitors of Daugavpils and Anykščiai, various public education activities have been implemented within the project. In the framework of the project an on-line application https://urbanwetland.eu/ has been developed it provides an electronic catalogue of the most important species and biotopes of the Esplanade Wetland in Daugavpils and the Green Pond in Anykščiai The descriptions of the species and biotopes included in the electronic catalogue are available in Latvian The eco-education materials section of the application include various educational games In the "Observations" section of the application visitors of the Esplanade Wetland in Daugavpils and the Green Pond in Anykščiai can upload photos of their observations of the wetlands After new observations are registered in the system the information is sent to the experts involved in the project who identify the species detected and publish the observations in the application online cameras have been installed in the Esplanade Wetland in Daugavpils and the Green Pond in Anykščiai which can be connected and live-streamed via the application The specific locations of the cameras in the wetlands were selected in cooperation with the experts involved in the project The cameras are placed on specially designed pontoons and operate autonomously The energy needed to operate the cameras is generated by a solar panel The solutions chosen for the project minimise potential disturbance to the nesting bird populations in the area as the cameras do not require regular online maintenance During the Environment Day in Daugavpils on 5 May the nature experts involved in the project organised educational activities for different target audiences The participants were from different age groups and interests - preschool children and schoolchildren of different ages The content of the activities was adapted to the specificities of each target audience Similar educational activities will be organised in September in Anykščiai The nature and environment experts involved in the project developed methodological materials for ecological education on wetlands for different age groups The methodological materials developed by the experts can be used after the end of the project in various environmental education activities to raise awareness about the need and importance of wetland conservation binoculars and aquascopes have been purchased for the Latgale Zoo and will be used to organise environmental education activities Project title: “Joint Management of Urban Wetland Areas in border region Latvia-Lithuania” https://www.daugavpils.lv/en/city/development-of-the-city/international-projects/urb-area The contents are the sole responsibility of Daugavpils City Municipality and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union Uldis Valainis phone: 26113065 e-mail: uldis.valainis@biology.lv Krišjāņa Valdemāra ielā 1, Daugavpils, LV-5401 Information bureau: +371 65404344, +371 65404399 E-mail: info@daugavpils.lv, pasts@daugavpils.lv E-adrese Created Loyaty Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība neuzņemas atbildību par tulkojuma precizitāti BNN offers you a selection of cultural events in Lithuania for the week between May 2 and 7 Design Week Lithuania 2017 (Dizaino Savaitė Lietuva); venues in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Telšiai and Anykščiai (www.dizainosavaite.lt/en) The event will take place for the 12th time in six different cities of Lithuania with the association of Design Forum being the main organiser and representative of the festival in Vilnius city design store «Interjero Erdvė» will coordinate all the activities of the festival this year we will have a new representative – creative incubator «Kultūros Fabrikas» In Šiauliai city as usually Lithuanian design store «Wãpsva/ LT» will take care of all the events collaboration with Telšiai faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts and Telšiai Gallery will continue recently opened arts’ incubator will be responsible for preparing annual design fiesta Ceremony of the Trumpeter of Independence (Nepriklausomybės trimitininko cermonija); Cathedral Square (Katedros aikštė) With less than a year left until the 100th anniversary of the declaration of Lithuanian independence Vilnius has launched a daily commemorative ceremony Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre professor Laurynas Lapė and his students will play the composition «Dear Lithuania» from the window of the Palace of Lithuania’s Grand Dukes Novus Music Incubator 2017 (Novus Muzikos Inkubatorius); Arts Factory «Loftas» (Menų fabrikas «Loftas») (www.menufabrikas.lt/en) Novus music incubator is back – more mature it’s now looking for the most exciting acts from the Baltic countries Latvians and Estonians are going to compete for the best band title at Novus The project is searching for new talents and provides an opportunity for musicians to perform on the professional stage Ballet «Swan Lake» (Baletas «Gulbių ežeras»); Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (Lietuvos Nacionalinis Operos ir Baletos Teatras) (www.opera.lt/en) Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov has enjoyed legendary popularity on the repertoire lists of the world’s lyric theatres Hardly a ballet company exists whose repertoire does not include a production of Swan Lake There was hardly a time when Lithuanian Ballet did not have a Tchaikovsky ballet on its repertoire… Concert «Spring Bloom for Mother» (Koncertas «Pavasario žiedas mamai»); «Žalgiris» arena (www.zalgirisarena.lt/en) As Lithuania is to celebrate Mother’s Day next Sunday the concert is devoted for the dearest human in the world – the Mother now invites all to what promises to be a great experience of lyrics A set of AAA rating Lithuanian stage stars Edmundas Kučinskas and many others will perform in the fully packed hall Concert «The Best of 80S & 90S with Megamix, C.C. Catch, Joy, Silent Circle»); «Švyturys» arena (www.svyturioarena.lt/en) The Mother’s Day will rock this year in the Lithuanian seaport with some former mega stars ready to get on the largest concert hall in Klaipėda The Wine Exhibition «Vyno Dienos 2017»; Exhibition and Convention Centre «Litexpo» (Parodų ir konferencijų centras «Litexpo») (www.litexpo.lt/en) The exhibition is the biggest wine and spirits event in the Baltic States where professionals meet professionals and final consumers international importers and gourmet representatives expect to welcome around 4000 visitors food and life journalists will have a unique chance to mingle exchanging ideas sharing the experience and sipping a glass of wine Vilnius will celebrate the Europe Day with a traditional restaurant fair in the centre of Vilnius, which will invite its visitors to taste traditional Irish, Belgian, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch, French, Romanian, Swedish, Hungarian and German dishes. The celebration will be accompanied by various sports activities and concerts. (More information: www.europosdiena.lt) Weekend in Vingio Park (Savaitgalis Vinkio parke); VU Botanical Garden in Vingis Park (Vilniaus Universiteto Botanikos sodas) the park will invite for active leisure zones open trainings and tournaments (table tennis opening holiday of rolling season (lessons mass Zumba training and belly dancers will be available (More information: www.sveikasmiestas.lt/en) International sport dance competition «Amber Couple 2017» (Tarptautinės sportinių šokių varžybos «Gintarinė Pora 2017»); Over 700 couples from all over the world will charm the onlookers with the miraculous twists The referees from 13 countries will have to decide who deserve the rewards in the 53th competition International University Theatre Forum (Tarptautinis universitetų teatrų forumas); various venues; International University Theatre Forum in Vilnius counts its decade this year as a unique youth event. It summons students that are interested in theatre for interactive theatrical performances and aims to bring social and heritage questions to public attention, also giving the possibility to get to know each other, to interact and exchange experience. (More information: http://www.kultura.vu.lt/en/news) the archaeologists have unearthed a 14th-century coin of Jogaila Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland which excavated the path to the Šventoji River also found artefacts from the end of the 14th century indicating that a new settlement was already being established along the Anykšta River at that time and was the origin of the present-day Anykščiai “written records of the former Anykščiai Manor date back to the mid-15th century and more mentions appear in the 16th century” The manor was first mentioned in 1442 during the visit of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Kazimieras Jogailaitis Previous archaeological investigations could not establish an earlier existence of the manor The early coins of Jogaila are quite rare in Lithuania the new find suggests that the manor was built as an unfortified residence at the end of the 14th century “The finds allow us to advance the history of Anykščiai by about 50 years,” says archaeologist Gintautas Zabiela The archaeological findings also show that the first inhabitants settled in the Anykščiai area around 9000 BC A canopy walkway was on Friday officially opened for the public in Anykščiai meandering in the picturesque forest of Anykščiai Regional Park is the first and so far only such structure in Lithuania and Eastern Europe The Anykščiai canopy walkway meanders some 300 metres and leads to 35-metre tower overlooking the forest which is the subject of a canonical nineteenth-century poem and the loops of the River Šventoji The walkway is open to the public free of charge except when visitors want additional guide services There is also an option to purchase a five-day one-euro ticket in order to support the upkeep of Anykščiai Regional Park a resident of the town of Andrioniškis in north-eastern Anykščiai District has been picking and selling mushrooms for a decade prices are so low that he cannot survive on mushroom picking alone “They buy chanterelles for 1.5 euro a kilo [...] That’s only enough for oil to fry some mushrooms for oneself,” says Vladas According to the Mushroom Pickers’ Association a kilo of boletes – one of the most prized kinds of mushrooms – can fetch as little as 80 cents the purchase price is falling because processors are importing mushrooms from abroad particularly from neighbouring Russia and Belarus where they can get them for two or three times cheaper “Even Lithuanians have registered companies there They have been in business there for many years,” says Vytenis Daugudis founder of the Mushroom Pickers’ Association Belarusian and Russian mushrooms are not destined for the Lithuanian market but for the markets of other European countries They are processed in the country and transported further west with fridges and dryers here,” says Daugudis Some companies in Russia may be moving their operations to Belarus “The ones that were registered in Russia have re-registered in Belarus the restrictions are lower,” says Daugudis “The sanctions against Russia are stricter there are stricter requirements not to be an investor not to be involved in management [of companies,” says Mindaugas Petrauskas head of the financial crime prevention department at Amlyze more than 250 tonnes of chantarelles were imported from Belarus and almost 90 tonnes from Russia this June alone Lithuanian customs authorities note there are no sanctions on mushrooms “Foodstuffs and agricultural products [from Russia and Belarus] are not banned for export or import Except for a very small list of food products,” Customs spokesman Arūnas Adomėnas commented to LRT TV which drew up the list of sanctioned products says that mushroom processors from Varėna District have requested an exemption from the sanctions The Minister of Agriculture quotes their arguments as follows: “Our processing industry is highly developed we have the facilities and we can process more there will be a shortage of raw materials.” According to Agriculture Minister Kazys Starkevičius sanctions could be introduced on mushrooms from Russia and Belarus in the future mushroom processors dispute that there is a glut of Russian and Belarusian mushrooms They say the prices are low because of falling consumption They claim that the purchase price is currently between 2 and 3 euros per kilogramme Companies simply have nowhere to sell their mushrooms,” says Virginijus Varanavičius head of the Association of Mushroom and Berry Entrepreneurs And mushrooms are imported only when needed “Lithuanian companies import some mushrooms when there is a need To make up for shortfalls of mushrooms in Lithuania,” Varanavičius assues it would not be difficult to impose sanctions on mushrooms covered in 12 metres of lights was unveiled in Anykščiai Christmas mail can be found inside the Christmas tree in Marijampolė The Visaginas Christmas tree is unique – it grows in Santarvės square where it was decorated Kretinga’s silver Christmas tree is covered in 20,000 white lights The Christmas tree in Naujoji Akmenė was unveiled during a light show The Joniškis Christmas tree is growing next to the town’s Cultural Centre Ten smaller trees hold the shroud of the main Christmas tree in Ignalina The Gargždai Christmas tree is covered in more than 8,000 LED lights The Mažeikiai Christmas tree is decorated with a shroud of golden lights Druskininkai unveiled a Christmas tree decorated with a golden crown Alytus has decided to go for a more modest Christmas tree to emphasise “community and not decorations” The Panevėžys Christmas tree features huge decorations The Christmas tree in Palanga is one of the most innovative this year The main Christmas tree is accompanied by a 25-metre-long Christmas train has set aside two plots of land for wooden developments – apartment buildings up to four storeys high The municipality has now invited developers to submit designs The lower floors could be used for shops and offices while the upper floors are intended for living “We will be asking to design modular structures which would allow to build bigger blocks,” says Daiva Gasiūnienė of Anykščiai Municipality “These modules could then also serve as an example for other towns.” Construction companies say that natural materials but has recently opened a production line for construction materials Among the planned products are wooden modular building structures “I don't think construction with natural materials will be cheaper but it will have other advantages,” says Ingrida Beržanskytė “These include the speed of construction and production technologies This means that more of the construction will be carried out in the factory and less on the building site.” The Architect Mantas Navalinskas is designing an office building for a logistics firm near Kaunas – with wood dominating the facade and interiors Timber is both an environmentally-friendly and beautiful material although the biggest challenge in designing wooden buildings is meeting fire safety requirements wood is a far more stable and predictable material than metal,” he says “You can design and calculate the effects of fire and plan compensatory mechanisms to make the building safe.” The Lithuanian government is now drafting regulations that would see all future public buildings be at least 50-percent built of natural materials The Environment Ministry has also drafted proposals to allow constructing higher wooden buildings “How much taller will depend on engineering solutions,” says Dainius Čergelis of the Environment Ministry where there are hardly any limits for how tall wooden buildings can be Lithuania plans to enact the new regulations by 2024 an astrophysicist at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University a scientist at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University talk about this in LRT RADIO’s programme 10–12 are the most visible part of storms to the human eye “The Northern Lights are the glowing layers of the Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of 200–300 km by the flow of electric particles from the Sun and sometimes there are more intense bursts The most visual manifestation is the Northern Lights,” explains Dobrovolskas The colour spectrum of the aurora borealis depends on which air particles are glowing and how strongly they are excited Nitrogen gives off a blue hue,” says the astrophysicist the Northern Lights have become more frequent in recent months as the Sun has reached its maximum intensity ejections of electric particles into space which is why we are now seeing auroras much more often,” he says Peak solar activity lasts for a year or a year and a half It is to be expected that it will remain at a fairly high level for at least another year We can only start to expect a fall perhaps towards the end of next year And the trough will come in another seven years,” Dobrovolskas predicts power grids and telecommunications systems telecommunications satellites flying in space,” the scientist says the electromagnetic storms that are currently taking place are not strong enough to affect the population “The Earth hasn’t seen many very strong storms except perhaps the Carrington Storm more than 150 years ago If a storm like Carrington were to happen now we would really feel it – the effects would be quite profound,” says Ikamas The 1859 Carrington solar storm affected telegraph wires since today’s society is heavily dependent on communications and electricity we would feel it quite strongly,” explains Ikamas This would lead to a pause in the operation of electricity-based systems no longer be able to use our computers and telephones there could be disruptions to heating and plumbing systems The areas most affected by an electromagnetic storm are closer to the North and South Poles Lietuvos metrika Lithuanian Metrica is a huge archive of documents of the Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania There is a total of 700 known Lithuanian Metrica books Lithuania has published more than 60 volumes of this impressive source To make these important collections more accessible to the general public and researchers around the world Vilnius University researchers digitized some of them and uploaded them to a virtual platform 34 books published in Lithuania are available on the newly created electronic reading room It integrates interactive indexes of personal and place names a dictionary of Ruthenian-Lithuanian languages Rimvydas Petrauskas names the Lithuanian Metrica publishing and digitization projects as an excellent example of international science every publication about it is welcome primarily in our neighboring regions but also around the world it is only natural that any attempt to expand the availability of Lithuanian Metrica is very important and this work should continue there is a new generation that reads differently and needs the largest possible online accessibility of resources,” Prof Petrauskas said at the launch of the new platform that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its history is in itself an international object of research which is gaining more and more interest from foreign scientists “The Grand Duchy is being studied by scientists not only from Lithuania we hoped that the digital reading room for Lithuanian Metrica would help reveal the richness of Lithuanian historical sources to the wider audience and at the same time demonstrate the meticulous high-level work of Lithuanian historians,” said Karolis Čižauskas a doctoral student at the VU Faculty of History who worked on the digitization of Lithuanian Metrica the digitization of Lithuanian Metrica books published in the 1990s and early 2000s ‒ scanning with a high-resolution scanner ‒ was probably the easiest part of the project The development of an interactive index and other assistive tools took the longest “The development of the interactive indexes required the manual collection of probably over 100,000 rows of data the re-indexing of 34 book personal and place names (Ruthenian and Latin) and their division into relevant sections on which the programmers have already been working.” to this day stored in Moscow and difficult to access are gradually becoming accessible from any part of the world at any time of the day The origins of Lithuanian Metrica – Vytautas’s office Lithuanian Metrica is undoubtedly one of the most important monuments of the Lithuanian history It contains a wide range of documents from the 14th to the 18th centuries and Polish: privileges for cities and nobles “A block of written sources of this size could only be born with the spread of written culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania when the administrative needs of the ruler and the state had already begun to be immortalized in writing Already during the reign of Vytautas the Great (1390–1430) compiled multilingual documents of various contents the office of Vytautas did not leave a single “book” of Lithuanian Metrica,” said Povilas Andrius Stepavičius a doctoral student at the VU Faculty of History who worked on the digitization of the Metrica books under the rule of Casimir Jagiellon (1440–1492) and the permanent office of the Chancellor the documents issued by the ruler were registered and written in the “memory” of the ruler with the growing need for written documents and the volume of compilation began the development of what is now called Lithuanian Metrica continuously compiled up to the 18th century was eventually named the Metrica of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by contemporaries and gradually became the state archive What can you expect to find in Lithuanian Metrica the division of all volumes of Lithuanian Metrica into several categories came into force: diplomatic affairs This also indicates the thematic fields containing material both a professional researcher and a history enthusiast: various diplomatic correspondences with Poland and other states; numerous trials and convictions by the ruler and other judicial cases; a highly valuable 1528 census of the conscript army of the nobility; ruler privileges granted to cities grants to nobles; the orders of the Grand Duke to various officers and many more documents of various types and contents destroyed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the new rulers also noticed Lithuanian Metrica both as a symbolic trophy and as a set of documents required for pragmatic purposes century Lithuanian Metrica moved from Vilnius to St the Lithuanian Statute and Lithuanian Metrica Research Center of the Faculty of History of Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Institute of History have been the most active in developing research and publishing Lithuanian Metrica It is the books of Lithuanian Metrica published by these two research centers that are available on the newly created platform Daugavpils City Council in cooperation with the Anykščiai district municipality administration launches new cross-border project implementation within Interreg V-A Latvia – Lithuania programme 2014.-2020 LLI-472 “Joint Management of Urban Wetland Areas in border region Latvia-Lithuania” was signed with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia on October - 5th In the frame of the project two urban areas wetlands will be managed – pond in the territory of Latgale Zoo in Daugavpils (Latvia) and Green pond in Anykščiai (Lithuania) Both municipalities are facing lack of understanding from responsible institutions and inhabitants about urban wetland ecosystem value in natural balance Daugavpils (Latvia) and Anykščiai (Lithuania) existing wetland’s natural and semi-natural management will be arrange The aim of the project is to develop new and effective approach joint cross-border management of urban wetlands integrated approach for observation of wetland wildlife and its inhabitants will be developed as well as ecological educational activities will be conducted The lead beneficiary Daugavpils City Council project costs are 266 648,91 EUR including project co-financing from Europe Regional development fund – 226 651,57 EUR state budget grant – 13 332,45 EUR and municipality co-financing – 26 664,89 EUR Total ERDF project funding 319 719,36 EUR This publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Daugavpils City Council and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union Olga Tolmacova, Head of the Office for Strategic Planning and Foreign Affairs at the Development Department of Daugavpils City Council  Olga.tolmacova@daugavpils.lv Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība neuzņemas atbildību par tulkojuma precizitāti!