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RTU Researchers develop new building materials using only production residues

In cooperation with international partners from Poland and France, and Cewood, the only producer of fibrolite (wood particleboard) in the Baltics, scientists from Riga Technical University (RTU) Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering are developing innovative construction products for nearly z…

Riga Technical University

July 2, 2024

Researcher Spotlight: Linda Gailīte

Dr. med. Linda Gailīte, Leading researcher and Head of the Scientific Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Riga Stradins University. Research requires patience, persistence of interest, creativity and clarity of purpose to arrive at important results. Linda has been working in the RSU Scient…

Research Latvia

July 1, 2024

Greenlight for EIT Water: European Commission approves launch

  The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme, will launch a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. According to a European Commission analysis p…

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology

June 27, 2024

You can get into science by accident!

Dagnija Loča, Leading Researcher at the Riga Technical University (RTU) Institute of General Chemical Engineering; Director of the RTU Rūdolfs Cimdiņš Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Development Centre; and Academic Professor at the Latvian Academy of Sciences, had no intention of being a scienti…

Anda Asere, Labs of Latvia

June 27, 2024

Helps to cool the planet

The wave of artificial intelligence development demands more and more computing power. Therefore, the challenge is to cool the servers more efficiently. The Dutch start-up Incooling, co-founded by Latvian Helēna Samodurova, offers a solution – a two-phase cooling system for servers in data centers…

Anda Asere, Labs of Latvia

June 26, 2024