Lithuania to promote technologies at service fair

Delegates from Lithuania will promote the country's biotechnology and its laser, food-related and information technologies at the fourth China Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services, to be held from May 28 to June 1, said Lithuanian Ambassador Ina Marciulionyte.

"We are sure this event will be a very good opportunity for us to present our potential," she said at a news conference in Beijing.

She said Lithuanian universities expect to find Chinese companies at the fair that will use their technologies and cooperate with their scientists to develop products.

A Lithuania-themed activity at the fair will be organized by the country's Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology and supported by its embassy in China and Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science.

Odeta Brigaityte, director of the Competence Center for Food Research and Technology at Kaunas University of Technology, will share achievements in the university's food-related technologies.

Vladislava Voiciuk from Vilnius University will give a speech that will focus on Lithuanian laser science, industry and achievements.