The Ethnic Kitchen is a Lithuania-based non-profit that develops and implements innovations in the sectors of education and creative industries across Europe and beyond.
The Ethnic Kitchen has been founded and is led by the award-winning world class educator Aiste Ptakauske. Aiste's documentary about immigrant women in post-Soviet independent Lithuania is included into curricula of several European universities. Aiste was the Lithuanian coordinator for the Virtual Business Professional, a project that involved over 650 students from 14 universities in 9 countries who worked together in teams for seven weeks and developed high-quality business reports on online corporate reputation management for Starbucks, Amazon, and Google. Aiste's students ended up in 5 of the 9 winnings teams. In 2018, Aiste received Vilnius University Rector's Prize for Internationalisation of Studies by means of Designing and Successfully Launching the MBA Entrepreneurship Program, which is the only program of this kind in the Baltic region. 
With Aiste Ptakauske at the helm, The Ethnic Kitchen specialises in cooperative learning and design thinking that it uses to help educators redesign their modules and study programs for a better students' performance and satisfaction.