Cesis District Council and Alytus municipality have signed the cooperation agreement in September 1999, ten years ago. They have been cooperating very successfully in the projects PIPE, Innovation Circle and different bilateral projects in education, culture exchange, cooperation of schools and some other fields. In connection with 10th year anniversary Alytus art exhibition was organized in Cesis and vice mayor of Alytus city council Nijole Makštutiene and group of artists and musicians on 9th of September visited Cesis and participated at the opening ceremony. The exhibition will be seen until 4th October. Artists from Cesis region were invited to Alytus to participate in the art exhibition on the 23rd September as well.

Alytus City is celebrating 426th birthday the coming weekend. As a present to the city Alytus youth have made city’s coat of arms created of cookies. This is the biggest coat of arms produced this way and will be registered to Lithuania Guinness Records book. The present size is 2x3 meters and 40 kg weight. Alytus coat of arms picture a white rose in a red background.

Lithuania is a country of plains. No mountains or rocks can be found here. However, this is not a problem for people to be fans of mountain skiing. Several years ago visiting western European countries for skiing during winter holidays became very popular. Now Lithuania has several skiing tracks locally. It can be hardly comparable to Norwegian tracks, but it‘s a great fun for Lithuanians fond of winter sports anyway.

Alytus is the sixth largest city in the country, the biggest regional economic, administrative, cultural and educational centre of Southern Lithuania. It occupies 40 square kilometres with more than 68 thousand inhabitants. Alytus lies on the banks of the river Nemunas, the biggest river in Lithuania, which connects the city with the seaport of Klaipeda.

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Alytus City has decided to join the IC Network as a formal partner. The City has been involved in IC activities from 2004. In the Innovation Circle project it even paid a role as lead partner. Now Alytus is ready to continue the job they have started. A contact person for the IC Network in Alytus is Ms. Virginija Auruskeviciene and she is also a board member in Baltic Innovation Group. Here you can find an interview with Ms. Virginija of what benefits the city sees in taking part in the IC.