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

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

in brief

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We are building a stable and strong national research environment, enabling international and public-private partnerships to emerge.

mission

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We believe that a culture of knowledge offers the best opportunities for creating and sustaining a strong civil society in a world that is constantly changing.

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

Citizens are invited to participate in a study on food waste
58 million tons of food waste is generated in the European Union, which is approximately 131 kg per inhabitant during a year. In addition, more than half of food is wasted in households. In order to realize the extent of this problem in Latvia and to look for appropriate solutions, a group of resea…

The Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

June 13, 2024

European Recognition for the Citizen Science Platform
On June 12, the recipients of the 2024 European Union Citizen Science Award were announced. For the first time, an Honorary Mention was given to a project from the Baltic States – the citizen science digital platform iesaisties.lv, developed by the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the …

Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the University of Latvia

June 13, 2024

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