RMIT University hosts the Lithuanian President as a part of the ALCRN (Australian Lithuanian Cyber Research Network)

The President of Lithuania, His Excellency, Mr Gitanas Nausėda, visited RMIT University this week on Wednesday 18th October as a part of his trip to the Asia Pacific region. The president was accompanied by an academic delegation of leaders from 7 of Lithuania’s top academic institutions.

The visit to RMIT University served as an opportunity to discuss research in the science domains of cyber security, critical infrastructure, science and the ways in which we can further our international research collaboration. This visit is linked to the Australian Lithuanian Cyber Research Network (ALCRN), a joint initiative and the first of its kind globally, led by RMIT University’s Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI) in Australia and by Mykolos Romeris University in Lithuania with a focus on mutual cyber security research.

While at RMIT, the president and his Lithuanian guests met Professor Calum Drummond, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation and Vice President, along with some of the top minds in Australia’s tertiary sector and toured RMIT’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct, a leading facility in the sector. This forum created an open exchange of ideas, exposure to innovation, and advanced the research relationship between Australia and Lithuania.

These conversations between Lithuania and Australia serve to further RMIT’s research and innovation agenda, particularly with our strong research ties in the European region.

Image: Professor Calum Drummond welcomes His Excellency, Mr Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania, to RMIT University.

Professor Drummond said “It was an honour to welcome the President to RMIT University on his first visit to Australia”. He stated that these conversations between Lithuania and Australia “serve to further RMIT’s research and innovation agenda, particularly with our strong research ties in the European region.”

Director of RMIT’s Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation and co-convenor of the Australian-Lithuanian Cyber Research Network (ALCRN), Professor Matt Warren said, “we are grateful to have hosted the president on his visit to Australia. It was an opportunity to showcase not only the important research we’re doing at RMIT but also the joint initiatives with the ALCRN.”

Professor Warren continued, “I look forward to our continued work with Lithuania, a European nation operating at the forefront of cyber security.”

We are grateful to have hosted the president on his visit to Australia. It was an opportunity to showcase not only the important research we’re doing at RMIT but also the joint initiatives with the ALCRN.

Image: His Excellency signing the RMIT University guestbook, with Prof Calum Drummond, Prof Matt Warren, and Prof Martin Leary.

The ALCRN is a joint initiative between RMIT University and Mykolas Romeris University. The network launched in February 2022 by His Excellency, Gabrielius Lansbergis, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the goal to connect cyber security researchers, students, industry and government practitioners working on and / or interested in Australia and Lithuania.

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