Research Council of Lithuania has been founded 1991 to fulfil the role of an expert institution tackling challenges of science development on a national level. The Council is a counsellor of the Lithuanian Parliament and the Government on research and researchers training issues, implements programme based competitive funding of research, administers most important Lithuanian science development programmes, evaluates research performance and represents Lithuanian science in various European institutions and other international organisations. One of the Lithuanian research policy goals through RCL is to foster national and international cooperation among research institutions and catching up with established EU member states in terms of both the level and scope of research area.
