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Applications for the Baltic States Scholarship for Women in Research are open until July 5

The Academies of Sciences of the Baltic States in cooperation with the UNESCO national commissions announce a joint scholarship competition for women researchers "Baltic Scholarship for Women in Research 2024". In Latvia three female researchers will receive a scholarship in the amount of 7,000 eur…

Latvian Academy of Sciences and UNESCO

July 1, 2024

Researcher Spotlight: Linda Gailīte

Dr. med. Linda Gailīte, Leading researcher and Head of the Scientific Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Riga Stradins University. Research requires patience, persistence of interest, creativity and clarity of purpose to arrive at important results. Linda has been working in the RSU Scient…

Research Latvia

July 1, 2024

Researchers from RSU, RTU and LSPA have launched research project about innovations in sport field

To improve Latvia’s achievements in sports, researchers from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), Riga Technical University (RTU), the University of Latvia, RTU Liepāja Academy, and the Latvian Academy of Sport Education have launched a nationwide research project – “Innovations, Methodologies and Recom…

Rīga Stradiņš University

June 28, 2024

Greenlight for EIT Water: European Commission approves launch

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme, will launch a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. According to a European Commission analysis p…

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology

June 27, 2024

You can get into science by accident!

Dagnija Loča, Leading Researcher at the Riga Technical University (RTU) Institute of General Chemical Engineering; Director of the RTU Rūdolfs Cimdiņš Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Development Centre; and Academic Professor at the Latvian Academy of Sciences, had no intention of being a scienti…

Anda Asere, Labs of Latvia

June 27, 2024

EUR 56.7 million will be invested in research development for new products and technology elaboration

With the support of European Union (EU) funds, there will be opportunities to invest more than 56.7 million euros for the development of research, development of new products and technologies in the areas of Latvia's smart specialization strategy (RIS3) until 2029. This is stipulated by the regulat…

Ministry of Education and Science

June 26, 2024

Helps to cool the planet

The wave of artificial intelligence development demands more and more computing power. Therefore, the challenge is to cool the servers more efficiently. The Dutch start-up Incooling, co-founded by Latvian Helēna Samodurova, offers a solution – a two-phase cooling system for servers in data centers…

Anda Asere, Labs of Latvia

June 26, 2024

The small-sized vessel for nature cognition research “AkvaLab Liepāja” is opened to the public

The Liepaja Municipal Education Department Science and Education Innovation Center (ZIIC) has unveiled the most time-consuming and engineering-technically complex result of the European Economic Area and Norway (EEA/N) project “Development of the Innovation Center in the Liepaja city” in Lake Liepa…

Science and Education Innovation Center

June 25, 2024

A long-term national research program model will be implemented

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the long-term national research program which goal is to develop academic research and applied science competencies for the development of innovative and commercializable products and technologies in close cooperation with the Latvian biomedicine, medical techn…

The Ministry of Economy

June 19, 2024