Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania invites to take a virtual trip and learn better about the ethnic and national minorities of Lithuania.

Department of National Minorities having assessed the administrative compliance of project proposals, announce the list of the beneficiaries of funds 2020 and final assessment list of the project proposals.

Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania keeps on implementing the program of National Minorities’ Integration into the Lithuanian Society and the Preservation of National Identity. At the end of 2019, the Department launched a call for Culture and Integration Centres of National Minorities to fund the centres’...

The director of the Department for National Minorities, Ms. Vida Montvydaitė, together with the department specialists visited Klaipėda city on 12-13 of February 2020.

The representatives of Tatar nongovernmental organizations gathered 4 February 2020 in the Department of National Minorities to discuss an action plan for year 2021 – the year of Tatar history and culture in Lithuania. 

On 21st of January 2020 newly elected members of the Council for National Minorities (CNM) gathered for their first meeting in the Department for National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to elect a president with vice-presidents and draft the CNM annual activity plan.

Seminar Roma Youth Participation: What Now? took place in Strasbourg, 2019 September 25–27. The seminar reviewed the Results of the Roma Youth Action Plan (2016–2019) in relation to Roma youth participation and combating antigypsyism. Gražina Sluško, Chief Specialist on Roma Issues, participated in the seminar. The opening...

On 14 July 2019 Vida Montvydaitė, the director of the Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania together with Sigitas Šliažas, a chief specialist in Relations with National Communities, took part in events to mark the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. Kaunas Jewish Community, Kaunas Municipality and Lithuanian Jews...

Today we mark the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, which happened on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribentroff pact (otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet pact) that made the Baltic states part of the Soviet Union in 1939. 30 years ago, two million people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands and made a 600-kilometre human chain that spread across the three...

RU.DELFI.LT has started “National Communities at the Roundtable” project supported by the Department of National Minorities. The aim of the project is to tell the stories and highlight particularly sensitive questions related to the national minorities in Lithuania and to form some type of a platform for intercultural dialogue.

Website RU.DELFI.LT starts publishing a series of articles about young people representing Lithuanian national communities. The main actors of these articles shall be young people who are involved in civic and public life and create their personal lives and career in Lithuania. 

The Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter Department) launched competition Best Thesis 2019. Lithuanian and foreign students, who defended their Bachelor, Master or PhD theses in 2018-2019 academic year and assistant professors who published their...