Conference
Cultural and Historical Conference “Women in the Piebalga Cultural Space: Personalities and Heritage”
2026-07-24
All day
"Vecpiebalgas muiža", Inešu pagasts, LV-4122
public health
Taste Buds Cannot Be Fooled. How Do Food Technologists Use This Sense?
Taste is one of the senses that is difficult to fool — we can misread or mishear something, but our taste buds usually tell us quite accurately what it is that we are eating. Moreover, it turns out that taste can also be trained and used as an important measurement tool in food technology, Professo…
LSM.lv Dzīvesstila redakcija, "Zināmais nezināmajā"
July 20, 2026
public health research
Study on early childhood nutrition and the implementation of healthy eating guidelines continues
The postdoctoral research project “Assessment of Early Childhood Nutrition Quality and Development of Tailored Tools for the Implementation of Nutrition Guidelines” (project No. 1.1.1.9/LZP/2/25/211) is continuing at Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (LBTU). The aim of the project…
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
July 20, 2026
Lecture
Artūrs Logins’ guest lecture “The Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence”
2026-07-24
4:00 pm
LU Zinātņu māja, Jelgavas iela 3, Rīga
public health natural sciences
From Deteriorating Health to Refugee Flows — the Threats Posed by Climate Change Are Very Diverse
Because of climate change, we are already facing and will continue to face many problems. If we do not recognise them and act according to the situation, we may experience not only deteriorating health, but also increasing refugee flows and nervous breakdown. There are also smaller things that we d…
Elmārs Barkāns, "Likums un Taisnība"
July 17, 2026
international collaboration science
University of Latvia researchers will have the opportunity to receive a scholarship for research visits to Stanford University
The University of Latvia (UL) has reached an agreement with one of the world’s leading universities — Stanford University — on the establishment of a special research scholarship for Latvian researchers. Its aim is to give UL researchers the opportunity to spend up to three months at Stanford, carr…
Latvijas Universitāte
July 17, 2026
research public health
This Is Not Fantasy — Real Research That Could Soon Significantly Improve the Treatment of Serious Diseases
This is not a fantasy article about the medicine of the future, where all ailments in the body are fixed with a single touch of a magic tool. Let us find out what modern scientific discoveries could truly achieve in improving human health over the next decade. Some of these possibilities are alread…
Linda Rozenbaha, Rīga Stradiņš University
July 16, 2026
Lecture
Lecture by Nobel Prize Laureate Morten Meldal
2026-07-21
10:00 am
Nacionālais pētniecības un inovāciju institūts, Teikas zinātniskais centrs, Aizkraukles iela 21
international collaboration
In Brussels, Switzerland concludes its Eureka Presidency and Belgium takes over
On 29 June this year, the annual event of SwissCore, the Swiss office for European research, innovation and education, “Cooperate to Innovate — What We Can Learn from the Eureka Network”, took place in Brussels, Belgium, and was also dedicated to the conclusion of the Swiss Eureka Presidency. As Sw…
Latvian Council of Science
July 16, 2026
space research
Optical and Radio Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei — From Intraday Fluctuations to Long-Term Cycles
On 7 July, at an international astrophysics seminar, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (VIRAC) researcher and University of Latvia doctoral student Vladislavs Bezrukovs presented the results of his research on the optical and radio variability o…
Ventspils Augstskola
July 15, 2026