The 9th International Student Conference Health and Social Sciences (ISC) will take place at Riga Stradins University (RSU) on 27 and 28 March. The conference, one of the largest scientific events in Northern Europe, attracts more than 3000 participants from at least 35 countries each year and is organised by RSU students
The aim of the conference is to encourage students to get involved in research, to broaden their competences, and meet student researchers from other countries.
The inauguration ceremony for the Rector of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), Prof. Aigars Pētersons, will take place on on Thursday, 31 March, 2023 at 15:30. The ceremony will be held in the RSU Great Hall (16 Dzirciema iela).
Associate Professor Marta Urbāne (pictured) has been the Acting Dean of the Faculty of European Studies until now. On 10 January 2023, she was appointed Dean for the next five years. Assoc. Prof. Urbāne has worked at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) since 2009. In her new position, she plans to create an international study environment based on respect, cooperation, and academic integrity.
At the end of 2022, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) joined the State Blood Donor Centre’s social responsibility campaign Asins draudzība 2022 (Blood Friendship 2022). Part of the campaign was a competition for Latvian Universities. RSU students and employees, their relatives, friends, and colleagues participated in the competition by indicating that they represented RSU when donating blood.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) B-Space Business Incubator, together with the education organisation Junior Achievement Latvia, the pharmaceutical company Novartis Baltics, and Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT), is inviting students to apply for the medical technology innivation pre-accelerator Healthtech. Applications are open until 1 February.
Applications are now open for a series of webinars on psycho-oncology.
3 Apr
RW2023 keynote speaker Dr. biol. Janet Kelso on the genomes of our extinct ancestors, the role of bioinformatics, and the excitement of experiencing a revolution in sequencing technology.
Before starting to work with real patients in a real hospital, prospective doctors at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) in their third year of studies complete a nursing placement in a specially equipped simulated hospital. The hospital is equipped with models, mannequins, simulators, and actors playing patients. The two-week project involves working in the simulated department of internal diseases and then in the department of surgery.
