International cooperation

International agreements

Updated: 2019 01 02

International agreements 

Belarus

Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Science and Technologies
Signed: 2008 01 24
Enter into force: 2008 07 02
Published: 2008 Nr.61-2287

Brazil

Agreement for cooperation in the Field of culture
Signed: 2008 07 16

Bulgaria

Agreement for Cooperation in the Field of Education, Science and Culture
Signed: 1996 04 10
Enter into force: 1997 11 27
Published: 1998 Nr. 3

China

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Science and Technologies
Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of culture
Signed: 1992 04 22
Enter into force: 1992 04 22
Published: 1995 Nr.37

Colombia

Agreement on Cultural Cooperation
Signed: 1995 04 28
Enter into force: 2001 08 20
Published: 2001 Nr. 83

Croatia

Agreement on cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education and Science
Signed: 2007 12 05
Enter into force: 2008 04 02

Czech Republic

Agreement on Probationers Exchange
Signed: 2000 03 31
Enter into force: 2000 09 29
Published: 2000 Nr.87

Finland

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education and Science
Signed: 1998 11 10
Enter into force: 1999 07 09
Published: 2000 Nr. 29

Flanders (Belgium)

Agreement on Cooperation
Signed: 2009 06 29
Enter into force: 2009 06 29

France

Agreement on Cooperation in Fields of culture, Education, Science, Technology and Technique
Signed: 2003 04 04
Published: 2004 Nr. 30

Germany

Agreement on Employing Probationers to Improve Their Skill and Language Knowledge (Agreement on Probationers)
Signed: 1993 08 20
Enter into force: 1993 08 20
Published: 1994 Nr. 23

Agreement for cooperation in the Field of Cultural Temporary since
Signed:1993 07 21
Enter into force: Temporary since 1994 08 05

Agreement for higher Education qualifications and Science degrees acknowledgement
Signed:2009-05-15
Enter into force: 2010-06-30
Published: 2009 Nr.108

Hybrid commission consultation protocol for the Fields of Cooperation culture, Science and Education
Signed: 2003 11 05

Greece

Agreement for the Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education and Science
Signed: 1997 02 24
Enter into force: 1998 09 24
Published: 1999 Nr. 53

Georgia

Agreement on Cooperation in the Spheres of Culture, Science and Education

Hungary

Agreement on Cultural, Scientific and Educational Cooperation
Signed: 1997 10 07
Enter into force: 1999 06 21
Published: 1999 Nr. 82

India

Agreement on Cooperation in the Spheres of Culture, Science and Education
Signed: 2001 02 20
Enter into force: 2005 04 08
Published: 2004 Nr. 170

Israel

Program of cultural, educational an scientific cooperation for the years 2009-2011
Agreement on Cultural, Educational and Scientific Cooperation
Signed: 2009 06 12
Published: 2009 06 12

Italy

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education, Science and Technology
Signed:1996 04 04
Enter into force: 1998 05 08
Published: 1997 Nr. 12

Kazakhstan

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education, Science and Technology
Signed: 2011 10 06

United States of America

Agreement on the Legal Status of an International American School in Vilnius
Signed: 2002 06 14
Enter into force: 2003 09 29
Published: 2003 Nr. 97

Memorandum of Understanding Between the Governement of the Republic of Lithuania and the Governement of the United States of America on the Fulbright Academic Exchange Program
Signed: 2008 01 31
Enter into force: 2008 01 31

Luxemburg

Cooperation agreement in the Fields of Culture, Education, Higher education, Science and sport
Signed: 2010 11 18

Mexico

Cooperation Agreement in the Field of Education, Culture and Art
Signed: 2002 01 24
Enter into force: 2003 07 04
Published: 2003 Nr. 54

Moldova

Agreement for cooperation in the Field of Culture

Mongolia

Cooperation Agreement in the Fields of Education, Science, Culture and Art
Signed: 2003 06 27
Enter into force: 2007 03 13
Published: 2007 Nr. 34

Philippines

Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Science and Technology
Signed: 1995 09 25
Enter into force: 2005 02 04
Published: 2005 Nr. 31

Poland

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education and Science
Signed:1998 12 17
Enter into force: 2000 01 05
Published: 2000 Nr. 29

Agreement on the Cooperation and Interchange of Youth
Signed: 1997 02 14
Enter into force: 1997 12 01
Published: 1997 Nr. 106

Agreement for the govermental representatives cooperation in the field of security of culture heritage
Signed: 1999 12 16
Enter into force: Not ratified

Agreement for the right giving documents to higher education partial studies, higher education qualification and, sciense and art degree inter-acknowledge
Signed: 2005 03 09

Romania

Agreement on the Cultural Cooperation
Signed:1995 09 19
Enter into force: 1997 11 28
Published: 1998 Nr. 3

Agreement on Economic and Trade Relations and Scientific-Technical Cooperation
Signed:1992 06 10
Enter into force: 1992 09 22
Published: 1995 Nr. 37

Serbia and Montenegro

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
Signed: 2003 08 27
Enter into force: 2005 12 01
Published: 2005 Nr. 85

Slovakia

Agreement between the government of the Republic of Lithuania and the goverment of the Slovak republic on Scientific and technological co-operation
Signed: 2011-02-24
Enter into force: 2011 06 12
Published: 2011, Nr. 71-3401

Slovenia

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Education and Science
Signed: 1997 11 14
Enter into force: 2002 01 02
Published: 2002 Nr. 13

Spain

Agreement on Cultural, Educational and Scientific Cooperation
Signed: 1995 11 22
Enter into force: 1997 12 17
Published: 1997 Nr. 111

Programme on cooperation in the areas of education and culture in 2004 - 2008
Signed: 2004 11 05

Sweden

Agreement on Probationers Exchange
Signed: 1994 05 05
Enter into force: 1994 07 01
Published: 1994 Nr.55

Holy See

Agreement on Co-operation in Education and Culture
Signed: 2000 05 05
Enter into force: 2000 09 16
Published: 2000 Nr. 67

Turkey

Agreement on the Cooperation in the Field of Education, Science, Culture and Sport
Signed: 1994 07 11
Enter into force: 1999 05 28
Published: 1999 Nr. 53-1706

Basics for cooperation in the Fields of education, Science, Culture and Art, Youth and Sport, Media and Communication with people
Signed: 2009 02 20

Ukraine

Agreement on Cooperation in the Spheres of Education, Science and Culture
Signed: 1993 08 04
Enter into force: 1993 08 04
Published: 1994 Nr. 23

United Kingdom

Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture
Signed: 1996 11 08
Enter into force:  1998 04 0
Published: 1998 Nr. 10

Uzbekistan

Agreement Concerning the Cooperation in the Field of Education, Science and Technology
Signed: 1995 06 07
Enter into force:  1995 08 28
Published: 1995 Nr. 90-2020

Agreement for cooperation in the Fields of Culture and Art
Signed: 1995 06 07
Enter into force: 1995 06 07
Published: 1995 Nr.55

Venezuela

Agreement on Cultural Cooperation
Signed: 1993 07 19
Enter into force:  1993 07 19
Published: 1994 Nr. 44

Cultural exchanges and cooperation program
Signed: 1992 09 16
Enter into force: 1992 09 16

Trilateral (Estonia and Latvia)

Agreement on the Creation of a Common Educational Space in General Upper Secondary Education and Vocational (up to Higher Education Level) Education within the Baltic States
Signed: 1998 07 10
Enter into force: 2000 07 16
Published: 2000 Nr. 53

Agreement on the Academic Recognition of Educational Qualifications in the Baltic Educational Space
Signed: 2000 02 18
Enter into force: 2001 04 01
Published: 2001 Nr. 4

Agreement on the Creation of a Common Educational Space in the Higher Education within the Baltic States
Signed: 2000 12 08
Enter into force: 2001 07 06
Published: 2001 Nr. 73

UNESCO

Memorandum of Cooperation between the Republic of Lithuania and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Signed: 1996 05 21
Enter into force: 1996 05 21

Memorandum of the European Community and the Republic of Lithuania
Signed: 2002 10 29

Convention Defining the Statute of the European Schools
Signed: 2004 12 13
Enter into force: 2005 09 01
Published: 2004 Nr. 178

European Nuclear Scientific researches organisation (CERN)

Agreement of cooperation for the further cooperation in the Fields of scientific and technical cooperation in the development of high-energy physics
Signed: 2004 11 04 (Extended to 2014-11-09)
Enter into force: 2004 11 09
Published: 2004 Nr. 171

Agreement of cooperation protocol for Lithuania Republic institutions participation in CERN high-energy particle physics experiments
Signed: 2005 11 22 (Extended to 2014-11-09)

Interdepartmental Agreements

Austria

Insitution: Government of the Austrian State of Styria
State: Cooperation Agreement on the activity of the united youth symphonic orchestra of Lithuania and Austria
Signed: 2007 04 18

Insitution: Agriculture schools council in Salzburg
State: An agreement on cooperation in vocational training
Signed: 2001 05 28

Belarus

Insitution: Ministry of Education
State: Agreement on cooperation in the field of education
Signed: 1997 12 11

Instirution: Ministry of Education
State: Programme on cooperation in 2005 - 2009
Signed: 2005 07 12

Instirution: National Committee of Science and Technology
State: Programme on cooperation in the area of science and technology
Signed: 2009 09 16

USA

Instirution: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
State: Agreement for Cooperation in Globe Program
Signed: 2002 10 03

Canada

Instirution: Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports of Quebec
State: Letter of intent
Signed: 2005 06 06

Poland

Instirution: Ministry of National Education
State: Agreement on cooperation in the fields of education and higher education
Signed: 1992 02 21

Instirution: Ministry of National Education
State: Letter of intent on Bilateral Commission to analyse problems in the teaching of history subject
Signed: 1992 02 21

Russian Federation

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Cooperation in the Field of Education
Signed: 2003 10 24

Institution: Russian Soviet Federal Ministry of Culture
State: Cooperation in the Field of culture
Signed: 1991 11 08

Netherlands

Institution: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
State: Letter of Intent
Signed: 2004 02 12

Slovak Republic

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Programme of Cooperation in the Area of Education
Signed: 2008 06 10

Ukraine

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Agreement on cooperation in the fields of education and science
Signed: 2002 03 19

Institution: Ministry of Education and Science
State: Letter of intent on cooperation in the field of scientific research
Signed: 2002 03 19

Hungary

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Programme on cooperation in the areas of education, higher education and scientific research
Signed: 2005 12 16

Holy see

Institution: Lithuanian Bishops' Conference
State: Agreement in the transmission of information about loss of teaching religion
Signed: 2009 11 06

Spain

State: Cooperation program in the Fields of Education and Culture 2004-2008.
Signed: 2004 11 05

Trilateral (Estonia and Latvia)

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Agreement on cooperation in the field of education
Signed: 1990 10 12

Institution: Ministry of Culture
State: Agreement on cooperation in the field of culture
Signed: 1990 12 14

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Agreement on the exchange of students, academic and educational personnel
Signed: 2007 02 05

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Protocol on the extension of agreement
Signed: 2011 04 05

Institution: Ministry of Education
State: Protocol of cooperation in the field of Science extension
Signed: 1994 04 25

International Organization

Institution: International Non-profit Educational Association World ORT.
State: Memorandum on Cooperation in the Field of Education
Signed: 2004 09 27

Institution: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
State: Agreement for Participation Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006
Signed: 2004 08 13