Registration is now open for Expert3D: Comprehensive Transversal Programme in Medical Image Post Processing: 3D Printing and Artificial Intelligence, an innovative programme supported by EIT Health. The programme is being offered in cooperation with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education and Technology Centre (METC) and will be held from 18 October to 12 December.

From 5 October to 6 December, RSU lecturers acquired new knowledge and skills in 3D printing and the use of artificial intelligence in the fields of medicine and medical education. Along with peers from Germany, Spain, and Portugal, two RSU lecturers - Jevgēnijs Proskurins, Head of the Department of Physics, and Edgars Edelmers, Manager of the Laboratory of Anatomy - took part in the training programme.

Registration is now open for Expert3D: Comprehensive Transversal Programme in Medical Image Post Processing: 3D Printing and Artificial Intelligence, an innovative programme supported by EIT Health. The programme is being offered in cooperation with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education and Technology Centre (METC) and will be held remotely from 5 October to 6 December.

From 26 to 28 August 2020 the International Department at Rīga Stradiņš University’s (RSU) organised Orientation Week for international students online for the first time.

Around 400 newly enrolled students from 31 different countries joined the online event. On the first day, the new students were introduced to RSU and learned about the class of Autumn Semester 2020. Prof. Deniss Hanovs discussed Latvian culture and topics related to inclusion and adapting to Latvia.

Together with a team of graduates from the Social Anthropology programme, Klāvs Sedlenieks, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), is conducting an extensive study to find out how residents of Latvia evaluate and comply with the restrictions put in place due to COVID-19. The study is part of the national research project Life with COVID-19, which has been approved by the Latvian Council of Science.

Sarah Liebner is about to start her 12th semester at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). Sarah is from Germany, and has worked as a lifeguard there since she was a teenager. She has been active in organising lifeguarding courses at RSU that started in the autumn of 2018, and hopes they will re-start in some form this year as well. 

The RSU Research Breakfast on the topic of Vertically Integrated Projects at Rīga Stradiņš University will take place on Wednesday, 2 September.

The event will take place in Latvian. Please click here for more information.