Country Profile – Lithuania

Organisations

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Organization responsible for education	Role of the organization	Website
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport	responsible for formulating and executing the national education and science policies is in charge of outlining strategic education plans, annual programmes and of submitting proposals to the Government organises matura examinations approves the general content of teaching, training and studies according to the framework of formal education (it includes general programmes, subject-specificprogrammes and teaching – training – study plans). responsible for issues such as national standards for accomplished education levels (the exceptions are higher education and PhD studies), standards for vocational training, guidelines for higher educational studies, accreditation criteria according to curricula and order of accreditation.	www.smm.lt/main/ web/en
County Manager’s Administration	responsible for the implementation of the national education policy approves strategic education plans for the county supervises the activities of subordinate education providers forms special school network assures the teaching of students with special needs according to programmes of compulsory and general education.
Municipalities	execution of the national education policy in the area of the municipality approval of the strategic education plans for the municipality and the general plan for the restructuring of the school network forming of the pre-primary, primary, and basic and secondary school networks responsible for the ensuring of the necessary environment for the provision of compulsory education form a network of vocational training and adult education providers in a way that this network is built on the basis of the needs of the population forming a network of non-formal education providers
School founders Usually, municipalities are the school founders in the case of public schools in the field of general education. In the case of private schools, private entities play the role of the school founder. The Ministry of Education and Science is the founder of vocational schools and schools of general education accepting students from all over the country. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania (in case of state-funded colleges) and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (in the case of state universities) are also school founders.	obliged to ensure the execution of the national education policy and relevant laws, other legislation regarding school activities responsible for the execution of the respective school.
Source: European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Lithuania Overview: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/lithuania_en

Funding of education

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Type of schools	Source of funds
The majority of the expenditure in the education system is financed from the central budget and also by the municipalities. The funding mechanism depends on the type of the school, such as: • state-funded schools • municipal schools • non-state-funded schools The above-mentioned financial resources are not available for higher education institutions and for programmes of non-formal education. A financial mechanism involving state budget and municipal resources means that the financing mechanism is implemented through the student’s basket that is allocated on the basis of the number of the students enrolled. The student’s basket covers the salaries of teachers, the cost of textbooks, and the cost of different teaching materials and in-service training of teachers. The founders of the schools also finance the maintenance costs of the schools through allocation the necessary resources.
Non-state funded schools belonging to religious communities or associations implementing formal educational programmes	Financed from allocations from the budget for teaching funds and school maintenance. This financing is implemented in proportion to the state-funded and municipal schools of the same type, and this financial mechanism is possible if there is a respective international agreement.
Vocational schools, post-secondary schools and schools of non-formal education	Financed by their founder
State-funded higher education institutions	Get every year allocated money from the state budget
Source: European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Lithuania Overview: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/lithuania_en

Expenditure on educational institutions ISCED (2011) (Million EUR)

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Year	Expenditure	Primary education	Lower secondary education	Upper secondary education	Total
2012	Current expenditure	231,2	400,4	183,6	815,2
	Capital expenditure	12,7	24,8	25,9	63,4
	Total	243,9	425,3	209,5	878,7
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	5,2	5,8	12,4	7,2
2013	Current expenditure	233,3	386,4	179,0	798,7
	Capital expenditure	13,5	27,7	34,7	75,9
	Total	246,9	414,1	213,7	874,7
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	5,5	6,7	16,2	8,7
2014	Current expenditure	233,2	386,5	178,4	798,1
	Capital expenditure	14,8	28,3	27,8	70,9
	Total	248,1	414,8	206,3	869,2
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	6,0	6,8	13,5	8,2
2015	Current expenditure	250,8	383,3	170,3	804,4
	Capital expenditure	15,7	25,6	12,3	53,6
	Total	266,5	408,9	182,6	858,0
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	5,9	6,3	6,7	6,2
2016	Current expenditure	278,8	397,3	168,9	845,0
	Capital expenditure	21,4	31,7	14,2	67,3
	Total	300,2	429,0	183,0	912,2
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	7,1	7,4	7,8	7,4
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_fini01)

Procurement Procedure

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Public procurement processes are carried out by subnational contracting authorities with a strong control and reporting system of the national procurement supervising body.

Ministry of Economy: sets procurement policy.

The implementation of the policy is the responsibility of three main national bodies:

1. Public Procurement Office (PPO):

implements the public procurement policy
ensures the compliance with the law and legislation rules
provides methodological help to contracting authorities,
administers the central e-procurement portal
prevents irregularities
ensures the compliance of contracting authorities with the law
coordinates and monitors public procurement processes

2. Competition Council:

inquires possible anti-competitive practices both from the sides of contracting authorities and of bidders
reports its finding to the PPO
can issue fines

3. Central Purchasing Organisation:

responsible for centralised procurement procedures on behalf of contracting authorities such as central administration and its territorial branches, local authorities
makes sure that the respective framework agreements are issued for a wide range of products, services and public works, from which later the contracting authorities can choose using an e-catalogue.

National Audit Office (NAO): the supreme audit institution.

its main aim is to ensure the efficient management of the State property
implements its activities according to the Public Audit Strategy and the annual audit programmes
conducts performance and financial audits
reports audit findings
coordinates regularly its activities with the Public Procurement Office.

Source:
European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Lithuania Overview:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/lithuania_en

Number of schools K-12	Number of teachers K-12	Number of students K-12	Number of computers per student K-12
2.100^[1]	n/a	^605.200[2]	n/a

Year	Primary education	Lower secondary education	Upper secondary education	Total
2012	242,7	421,4	209,1	873,2
2013	245,9	409,7	210,6	866,1
2014	249,0	413,1	205,1	867,2
2015	261,2	400,7	178,2	840,2
2016	294,2	423,1	178,5	895,8
Source: Eurostat (online data codes: educ_uoe_fine01)

Country Profile - Lithuania

Education Procurement in Lithuania

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Legislation of Education

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Funding of education

Public expenditure on education ISCED (2011) (million EUR)

Expenditure on educational institutions ISCED (2011) (Million EUR)

Procurement Procedure

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