There have been international students at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) for 33 years. Smuidra Žermanos, currently the Vice-Dean for International Students at the Faculty of Medicine, has been working with them for 30 years. When she started working at RSU, there were 100 international students under her supervision, but now Žermanos is in charge of more than 2,600 international medical students.
On 5 October, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) International Department (ID) welcomed the participants of the Study in Latvia initiative – representatives of other Latvian universities and the State Education Development Agency (SEDA) – to a presentation of how RSU attracts international students: strategy, practice, and achievements.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Department of Sports and Nutrition invites you to attend the seminar Food Sustainability. The seminar will address the issue of food sustainability, one of the most important issues in society today.
This academic year, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has started integrating a course called Military Medicine Fundamentals into the Medicine study programme. This is not only the first military medicine course in the history of higher education in Latvia, but RSU is also the first university in the Baltic States to integrate this type of content into its curriculum.
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After winning a competition, two researchers who are involved with the (Re)moving Ties project Assoc. Prof. Aija Lulle and Ieva Puzo (PhD), will publish a special edition titled Mobility, Work and Families amongst the Highly Skilled.
Līga Avena will defend her doctoral dissertation on 27 October at 11:00 in an open meeting of the RSU Legal Sciences Committee in the Hippocrates lecture-theatre (16 Dzirciema iela) as well as online. Her dissertation is titled 'Legal Problems of Quality Aspect in Public Procurement Contracts'.
On 12-13 October, more than 50 experts, including from Harvard University and countries and regions such as the USA, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Israel and the Baltics, are meeting at the International Precision Medicine Networking Forum (PMNET) held at the National Library of Latvia in Riga to build collaboration in precision medicine with the biomedical ecosystem.
The annual security and foreign policy forum Riga Conference 2023 will take place at the National Library of Latvia on 20-21 October. The main programme will be preceded by Open Admission Day that includes many side events on 19 October where professionals and the wider public who are interested in security and foreign policy topics are welcome to in-person discussions in the library.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Institute of Public Health is hosting a Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM) network meeting, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, dedicated to questions related to the health system and healthcare policy. The meeting will take place on 19 and 20 October, 2023.
