After a more than a three-year-long hiatus, the traditional Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) Academic Ball was held at the Riga Latvian Society House on Saturday, 10 September marking the ball's 20th anniversary. RSU staff, students, and university management came together to celebrate with invited guests, among them ministers, rectors and vice-rectors of other universities, and representatives of state and non-governmental organisations.

Tens of millions of people around the world suffer a variety of injuries every year that can affect their ability to work, their quality of life, or even prove fatal. Every day, Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital (PSKUS) treat polytrauma, gunshots, stab wounds, and severe head injuries. To treat these patients in a structured way, PSKUS has developed a polytrauma protocol that acts a sa kind of algorithm for medical staff.

A Memorandum of Understanding to establish a branch in the German city of Stade was signed between Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Elbe Kliniken Stade (EKS) on 1 September. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Rector of RSU Professor Aigars Pētersons and Professor Holger Schmidt, Head of the Neurology Clinic of EKS, who is the coordinator of the cooperation project from Germany.

The Baltic Yearbook of International Law (BYIL) published by Riga Graduate School of Law, invites you to take part in the on-line seminar: “Russia's War in Ukraine and the Baltic States” on 19 September 2022.

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