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Valga Hot Shorts Open Call Invites Baltic Short Films

  • 2026-02-17

This year’s Valga Hot Shorts short film festival will take place from 3–5 July in the urban space of Valga/Valka and invites filmmakers from Estonia, Latvia, and for the first time also Lithuania to submit their short films to the festival’s open competition....

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Preparing Young People for the Future Labor Market: Why Good Grades Alone Are No Longer Enough

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Quiet Solidarity: How Lithuania Practices Hospitality

By Dainius Genys* & Dmytro Mamaiev** * TThe author is a member of The Migration and Intercultural Diasporic Life Laboratory, a research platform within the VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute. The Laboratory brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars in the socia...

Preparing Young People for the Future Labor Market: Why Good Grades Alone Are No Longer Enough

As the global labor market undergoes rapid transformation, educators and policymakers are increas...

Quiet Solidarity: How Lithuania Practices Hospitality

By Dainius Genys* & Dmytro Mamaiev** * TThe author is a member of The Migr...

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Record number of nominees vie for Estonia’s top startup title

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Europe needs to stand up for Ukraine and not rely on the United States

On August 15, US President Donald Trump invited Russia’s brutal dictator Vladimir Putin to ...

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