The EIT Health i-Days health innovation event for Latvian university students took place in Riga on 10 - 11 October, inspiring them to get involved in healthcare innovation and start-ups. The winning team, team Linky, are students from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Riga Technical University (RTU) who have been looking for a solution to a challenge from the Children's Hospital to provide effective palliative care for children.
Applicants from abroad have so far shown more interest in international job offers for tenured professorships at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Riga Technical University (RTU), but less interest in positions at the University of Latvia (LU), according to the news portals TVnet and LETA.
RSU has announced seven vacancies and received a total of 57 applications, 47 of which were from abroad.
Vija Veisa will defend her doctoral dissertation on 5 November at 15:00 in an open meeting of the RSU Clinical Medicine doctoral committee. Her dissertation is titled 'Iodine Sufficiency during Pregnancy in Latvia.'
Official reviewers
- Prof. (Dr. med.) Gunta Lazdāne, Rīga Stradiņš University
- Prof. (PhD) Mindaugas Kliučinskas, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Lithuania)
- Assoc. Prof. (PhD) Lina Zabulienė, University of Vilnius (Lithuania)
On Wednesday 23 October, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Theodoros Rousopoulos, will give a lecture on media, politics and international affairs at the Rīga Stradiņs University (RSU) Faculty of Social Sciences. In addition to being an experienced and well-known Greek politician, Theodoros Rousopoulos has also been an influential journalist for many years. In his talk, he will share his wealth of experience and draw on his career in both the media and the political arena.
In this talk, Rico Isaacs will explore the importance of attending and presenting at academic conferences and especially the role such activity plays in developing academic networks. In the talk he will cover the process of writing a good abstract, the writing of the paper and how to present well at a conference (and how not to!). Other areas that will be discussed are the reletaive merits of conferences over workshops and vice-versa, and some strategies for buliding networks and how to use conferences to build momentum in an academic career.
In this online session, Rico Isaacs will discuss the process of crafting and writing a book proposal and securing a book contract, as well as giving some guidance on the art of monograph writing and seeing it through to publication and promotion. In the talk Rico will also explore the releative advantages and disadvantages of peer-reviewed journal articles vs. research monographs and some general tactics and approaches which can be deployed when writing and seeking to publish both journal articles and books.
On 10 and 11 October, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) hosted the international conference ‘The Getaway Conference: Mobilities, Societies, the State and Detoxification’.
On 9 and 10 October 2024, the first meeting of the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) Latvia was held at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) with the participation of representatives from all national hub partner institutions, the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as EATRIS management in order to facilitate the development of translational medicine in Latvia.
Photos from BKUS archives
On Friday 11 October, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), the Children's Clinical University Hospital (BKUS), and Riga Technical University. The aim of the memorandum is to promote and support the development of the Latvian health research and innovation ecosystem, to make Latvia a leader in patient-centred medical technologies and healthcare innovation, and to develop cooperation between healthcare, academic institutions, and the private sector.
A guest lecture by Heides Weishaar, themed 'Public Health policy matters: The power of policy analysis', will be held at Rīga Stradiņš University Wednesday, 6 November.
