Dr. Milda Ališauskienė, the Chairperson of the Board and Sandra Adomavičiūtė, Head of the Open Lithuania Foundation, revealed more details surrounding the circumstances of the reopening of the OLF and shared their thoughts on planning and implementing the Foundation’s activities for 2017 with Kultūros savaitė (Week of Culture, a Lithuanian National Radio and TV program) […]

The official opening of the renewed Open Lithuania Foundation (OLF) took place on April 18, 2017. An opening ceremony in the evening followed a press conference in the morning and interviews for media in the afternoon. Didžioji Street number 5 in Vilnius, the iconic home of the old OLF where many NGOs are still based, […]

(Remarks of Prof. Dr. Justinas Žilinskas at the OLF’s press conference at Baltic News Service, April 18, 2017) The OLF is coming back at a complicated time. I do not want to call this period a crisis, since we are already hearing enough cries of panic. Yet, it is clearly a fact that Lithuania, along […]

Vilnius, April 18. (BNS). The Open Lithuania Foundation (OLF) is reopening its operations with a promise to focus on increasing its society’s resilience and on the country’s internal issues that are sometimes driven by corruption, nepotism and social inequality. According to the Chairperson of the Board, Dr. Milda Ališauskienė, having first operated from the early […]

Rather than having one supreme concept or a defining single act, both the open society idea and the Open Lithuania Foundation (OLF) itself are dynamic, flexible and renewable. Two recent occasions came as reminders of the latter: the celebration of the OLF’s 25th anniversary on December 3, 2015, while it was still in its suspension period, […]