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14 July, 2016
U.S. Embassy Delegation Visited MRU LAB July 14th
July 14th, 2016, a delegation from the U.S. Embassy in Lithuania, led by Deputy Chief of Mission in Lithuania Howard Solomon, visited Mykolas Romeris University's MRU LAB. Delegation members included: U.S. Embassy Politics and Economics Unit Deputy Head Diane Kohn and Cultural Attache Althea Cawley-Murphree. The delegation met with MRU LAB Safety Laboratory and Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education Heads. Results of implemented projects were presented. There was discussion about possibilities for further cooperation. The most important MRU LAB Safety Laboratory and Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education projects being implemented: The Internal Security Fund-Police for 2014-2020, ISFP Project financed by the "Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime," Project whose aim is to create a united contact center of Europe's national cybercrime centers of excellence and thus expand the Network. The European Commission financed Project, Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training, Research & Education (L3CE), Grant Agreement No HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/INT/4000005176). The financing programme: EC DG Home Affairs ISEC programme, Prevention Of and Against Crime 2007-2013) whose theme was the Ïllegal Use of Internet. The main aim of the project was to reach a level of improvement in fighting cybercrime in Lithuania and fighting international cybercrime in the Eastern Baltic region and the EU. Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) is implementing the project in conjunction with the Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education, the Kaunas Technology University (KTU), Ireland's Dublin University, Spain's S21SEC Institute, the Cybercrime Research Centre, the Vilnius Regional Police Office (VCP), and the firm, Ëkonominės konsultacijos ir tyrimai." Lithuania's Research Council financed research Project, "Open Data Source Basis For Undertaking Analysis of NVS and EU Eastern Partnership Economic and Political Situation" ECOPOL. The aim of the Project is to create a public electronic sphere analysis concept model, seeking to recognize and categorize information about issues and events written about in the public electronic sphere.The Project is implemented by Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) along with project partners - MRU and the Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education.