From September 29th to October 3rd, six eleventh-grade students from Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium, Benas Manstavičius, Pavel Murashov, Kotryna Plyniūtė, Rusnė Ponomariovaitė, Kotryna Mieldažytė, and Agota Kiesaitė, together with their biology teacher Simas Ignatavičius, participated in the Erasmus+ project, where they performed laboratory practical work related to yeast production.

Students from eight countries participated in the meeting held in Brno, Czech Republic: Poland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Lithuania, and Denmark. Working in mixed teams, the students learned a lot about the cultures of other countries and shared interesting facts about Lithuania. 

During the experiment, they had to find out the most effective way to grow yeast by calculating the optical density, glucose and ethanol concentrations. The students also learned how to use automatic pipettes and a photometer, also prepared a fermenter themselves beforehand.

 The Lithuanians did very well: student Kotryna Mieldažytė took second place and Kotryna Plyniūtė took third place in the quiz.

 The students lived with host families, so they were able to experience authentic Czech everyday life. They also visited the G. Mendel Genetics Museum, ,,CEITEC” University, went to see the hills of Southern Moravia, and had a great time with other students.

 The project is funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ program.