The prevalence of start-ups and the support they are provided by different state and municipal authorities are definitely an important indicator of contemporary development. It gives a signal that we are including innovative and forward-looking business ideas in our vision for national economic development. At present, there are hundreds of active start-ups in Latvia that have successfully managed to attract investments of over 210m euros.
EIT JUMPSTARTER 2020 joint program by EIT Food, EIT Heatlh, EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Manufacturing, EIT RawMaterials and EIT Urban Mobility invites teams of individuals with innovative business ideas in the health/food/raw materials sectors turn ideas into a business.
Don't miss the chance and apply now for the EIT Jumpstarter. Get engaged with Europe’s largest thematic innovation networks, learn how to validate your business concept, develop your business plan and pitch your idea to future investors.
On 18 November 2019, Inga Millere, the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and a Professor of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, was awarded the Cross of Recognition for her outstanding and significant contribution to the development of nursing education and research.
Hannah Katharina Schöberl is a 6th-year medical student at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and was recently elected President of the International Student Association (ISA) taking up her new position on 1 January 2020. She has been with ISA since the beginning of 2019 when she was elected Head of Academic Affairs. Prior to her involvement with ISA, Hannah was on the board of the German Student Association (Deutsche Studenten im Ausland, DSiA).
From 27 to 29 April, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will host the 6th International Scientific Conference ‘Health and Personality Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach’. A pre-conference workshop will take place on 26 April. The conference is organised by the Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy of the RSU Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare.
On 20 February the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) International Department organised a "speed friending" event together with the RSU International Students’ Association (ISA) and the Student Union for local and international students.
- Read more about Lecture by Professor From the University of Maryland on the US Presidential Election
Students, school pupils, the university's employees and anyone interested are invited to attend a guest lecture by Professor Dr Thomas F. Schaller. The lecture is taking place as part of a series of guest lectures on the upcoming US presidential election that began in autumn 2019. The professor will report on the current activities of the presidential campaign and the most likely scenarios.
Since 2019 the Institute of Public Health at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has been involved in COST ACTION 18124 of the European Sexual Medicine Network. One of the four working groups studied information published in scientific journals and the existing practices of the 32 countries represented in this project. The results confirm existing gaps in knowledge and skills regarding sexual health.
By the time you will be reading this, Andrea Christina Schneider and Ronja Emely Friede will already be back in western Germany studying Medical Physics at their home university – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU). Their semester-long Erasmus visit paved a new path at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) since they were the first exchange students in the field of medical physics. This is great news for interdisciplinarity!
