Yesterday after a tough day of performing case study task Entrepreneurship Competition Vilnius 2009 was finished. Organizers would like to congratulate every team on passing over various obstacles.

Most of applause go to the winners LT from LV (Arvydas Žiobakas, Aurimas Račas, Justas Grigalauskas and Vaidotas Lašas from SSE Riga). Hannibal Rising (Tomasz Dudzinski, Lukasz Marc, Magdalena Pawlowska and Mateusz Popiolek from Warsaw School of Economics) deserved to be the runner-up, while the third place went to No way! (Mantas Vrubliauskas, Julius Diska, Kristina Ūsaitė and Raphaela Scharfschwerdt from VU/FIHE).

As we promised yesterday, the news portal DELFI would like to give ECV participants a creative task.

So please comment in the following DELFI article, how you imagine a young modern businessman: is it a stereotypical image of a man in a suit, smoking a cigar, playing golf, surrounded by admirers? Or maybe, on the contrary, he or she does not differ from people of other occupations, and his o her hobby is painting or photography. Please write your ideas in DELFI comments (the participants of competition – in English and DELFI readers – in Lithuanian) till 3 pm this Friday. Do not forget to leave your e-mail address. The authors of the most interesting ideas will be presented with photographer Marius Jovaiša’s album of photographs „Unseen Lithuania“ („Neregėta Lietuva“).

The lecture "Eastern Europe and East Asia: the peculiarities of cross-cultural communication" will be held on 4th of March, 13:00 by lecturer Aurelijus Zykas.

In the age of globalization, the geographically and culturally remote regions have more and more opportunities for mutual relationships and communication. Using the theoretical frameworks of G.Hofstede, E.T.Hall and other prominent specialists, this lecture introduces main cross-cultural communication gaps and similarities between East Asian and Eastern European countries.