Funded visits of foreign lecturers will last from two weeks to two months. Maximum support for visiting professors will ammount to 3,250 litas (over EUR 940), 1,560 litas for associate professors, and 780 litas for lecturers, assistants or those with a doctoral degree.
The money will be used to cover travel, accommodation and other expenses.
A Lithuanian higher-education school will have to co-finance a visit of a foreign lecturer and cover at least 30 percent of expenses, the ministry said. The financial support might be provided to currently visiting lecturers or to those planning to come.
"We hope this financial initiative will be an additional stimulus for higher schools to invite best lecturers from abroad, learn from their experience, actively cooperate with foreign schools. It should also be an incentive to take active participation in the international education an studies processes and exchange of ideas," Vice-Minister of Education and Science Nerija Putinaitė said.
