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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

EUR 56.7 million will be invested in research development for new products and technology elaboration

With the support of European Union (EU) funds, there will be opportunities to invest more than 56.7 million euros for the development of research, development of new products and technologies in the areas of Latvia's smart specialization strategy (RIS3) until 2029. This is stipulated by the regulat…

Ministry of Education and Science

June 26, 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

The small-sized vessel for nature cognition research “AkvaLab Liepāja” is opened to the public

The Liepaja Municipal Education Department Science and Education Innovation Center (ZIIC) has unveiled the most time-consuming and engineering-technically complex result of the European Economic Area and Norway (EEA/N) project “Development of the Innovation Center in the Liepaja city” in Lake Liepa…

Science and Education Innovation Center

June 25, 2024

A long-term national research program model will be implemented

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the long-term national research program which goal is to develop academic research and applied science competencies for the development of innovative and commercializable products and technologies in close cooperation with the Latvian biomedicine, medical techn…

The Ministry of Economy

June 19, 2024

Citizens are invited to participate in a study on food waste

58 million tons of food waste is generated in the European Union, which is approximately 131 kg per inhabitant during a year. In addition, more than half of food is wasted in households. In order to realize the extent of this problem in Latvia and to look for appropriate solutions, a group of resea…

The Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

June 13, 2024

European Recognition for the Citizen Science Platform

On June 12, the recipients of the 2024 European Union Citizen Science Award were announced. For the first time, an Honorary Mention was given to a project from the Baltic States – the citizen science digital platform iesaisties.lv, developed by the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the …

Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the University of Latvia

June 13, 2024

Researcher Spotlight: Mārcis Auziņš

Prof. Mārcis Auziņš, Head of the Department of Experimental Physics of the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia (UL). There is often a belief among scientists that the public should be interested in science because it is so exciting and fantastic, and if the pub…

Research Latvia

May 15, 2024

Researcher Spotlight: Vita Rovīte

Dr. biol. Vita Rovīte Head of the Molecular and Functional Genomics Research Group, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre and Head of the Latvian National Biobank Molecular genetics has been Vita’s specialisation since the beginning of herstudies. She has received recognition for her r…

Research Latvia

April 29, 2024