The title of Honorary Patron to Professor John Hillyard Milner (Great Britain) was awarded for the following merits to the University:
- He helped to make connections with the Western European universities while organising the improvement of the lecturers’ qualification and students’ studies, and improving KTU teaching infrastructure and resources.
- J. H. Milner made substantial contribution to successful involvement of Lithuanian scientists, lecturers and students in the European Union (EU) training and learning programmes.
- Thanks to the EU project “TEMPUS”, with participation of Milner, signal processing laboratories were established at the University.
- With the help of the professor, a dozen KTU lecturers completed traineeships in the universities of England and Denmark.
- J. H. Millner provided the essential teaching literature for use in research and study process, assisted the University staff in finding partners and organised their visits to the schools of Great Britain.
