Life goals, accelerated
In Lithuania, skills, knowledge and drive are what count. That’s why it’s a great place to fast-track your career without sacrificing a fulfilling lifestyle. Lithuania has already made its mark in tech, fintech, biotechnology and AI, and leads the EU in the share of young people working in the ICT sector. Become part of a modern success story by exploring the career, education and academic opportunities available across the country.
Where you're never too young to be successful
In Lithuania, what you can do matters more than how long you’ve been doing it. On the workforce side, Lithuania ranks first in the EU for employing young specialists aged 15–34 in the ICT sector. And the founder base skews genuinely young: the median age of startup co-founders in Lithuania is around 28.5, in an ecosystem where Vilnius was named the fastest-growing tech city in the EU in 2025.
It’s common for young leaders to take the helm not only in business but also in government. Virginijus Sinkevičius, for instance, became Minister of Economy and Innovation at 27. Two years later, in 2019, he was appointed European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries at 29, and remains the youngest commissioner in the EU’s history.
Career opportunities nothing short of international
Living and working in Lithuania, it’s easy to take part in something global. From international names like Thermo Fisher and Revolut to homegrown companies with worldwide reach like Nord Security and Oxylabs (plus a wave of fast-growing startups such as PVcase and Cast AI), there are hundreds of employers on the lookout for talented, smart people.
People searching for a purposeful career will be happy to learn that solutions developed in Lithuania are making an impact well beyond its borders. Vinted, the country’s first unicorn, brings a circular-economy model to millions of shoppers across Europe, while NanoAvionics builds satellites trusted by NASA, MIT and Thales.
Plugged into global science
Lithuania offers affordable, high-quality European degrees, with over 500 English-taught programmes and generous student work rights. It’s also one of Europe’s best places for women to build a career in science: at 63%, Lithuania has one of the EU’s highest shares of women working in science and technology.
Lithuania’s scientific reputation reaches the frontiers of research. In life sciences, it’s one of the homes of the gene-editing revolution. Vilnius University’s Virginijus Šikšnys was one of the scientists who first showed how CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed as molecular ‘scissors’, and the city now hosts the EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies – one of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s select international partnerships. In physics, Lithuania became the first Baltic state to join CERN as an Associate Member, taking a seat at the world’s leading particle physics laboratory.
Behind these milestones are the people building careers here. Prof Urtė Neniškytė trained at Cambridge and EMBL before returning home to Vilnius, where she leads a neurobiology group and holds a prestigious ERC grant to study how the developing brain takes shape. Dr Stephen Jones took the opposite route: he left the United States to establish his CRISPR research group in Vilnius, and found not only world-class facilities but also a healthier balance between ambitious science and a life well lived.