A study on the consumption of research and public participation in Latvia concluded that only 21% of the population are informed about specific Latvian researchers, and 20% about Latvian scientific achievements [1]. Therefore, the purpose of the social campaign of The Latvian Association of Young R…

Toms Pfeifers - currently the youngest colleague of the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (OSI), whose path started here last year, creating a scientific research paper for the needs of the 12th grade. Through this experience came the decision to choose to study chemistry this year and continu…

The lack of teachers creates risks for ensuring quality education in Latvia. How to solve the problem if the age of teachers in Latvia exceeds the average in many places in the world, but young specialists enter schools slowly? Riga Technical University (RTU) researchers have created an analytical …

The August issue of the internationally important journal "Journal of Medical Chemistry" published a study by researchers of the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis and Malaria Biochemistry Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute (Great Britain) on new solutions in the treatment of malaria. One o…

Universities play a decisive role in the development of the knowledge economy - they concentrate the intellectual capacity and skills to create new knowledge, which, transferred to society and industry, will change and develop it. In a workshop at Riga Technical University (RTU), heads of Latvian u…