The scientific research institutes at Kaunas University of Technology, which was founded in 1922 and is the largest technical university in the Baltic States, are widely known for their professional scientific research. The institutes, which have been successfully conducting scientific research in the fields of liquid metals, automated dosing and control systems, and optical systems, have been intensively expanding and today provide services to such world giants as Airbus, Siemens, Noimann & Co, etc.

The Department of Science Studies at Vilnius University, which was founded in 1579 and is the oldest higher education institution in Eastern and Central Europe, specializes in the production of technologies for the optical-laser characterization of semiconductor compounds for use in modern optoelectronics in Europe, the US, Japan, and China. The demand for the innovative holographic instruments, the department has developed for semiconductor diagnostics, has been growing rapidly around the world. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the US, which carries out research in semiconductors and the optimisation of production technologies, was one of the first to apply the instruments developed by the department’s scientists.