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02 Oct 2025
Enhancing Knowledge Transfers, Skills, and Mindset Change through Learning Journeys – Interreg NPA GLOW2.0 Project
Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) GLOW2.0 – Green Energy Technologies for Tourism Growth project has been supporting enterprises and public organisations in developing tourism flow during the dark autumn and winter months, using darkness of nature and Dark Sky as additional elements for diversifying the tourism package, while effectively communicating light pollution and ways to prevent and reduce it. One way of supporting enterprises and organisations was through learning journey events.Why learning journeys?The conceptual framework of Learning Journeys originates from…
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01 Oct 2025
Healthcare innovation hackathon i-Days 2025 begins this week
From October 3 to 10, the i-Days hackathon will take place in Riga , during which students from Latvian universities will be invited to create solutions to current healthcare challenges. Young people are invited to participate in the hackathon in teams of 3–4 people from any Latvian higher education institution, regardless of their year of study or field, to solve acute challenges in the healthcare sector (for example, promoting preventive medicine), which would allow diagnosing diseases at an early stage…
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29 Sep 2025
Outstanding Life Sciences Innovations presented by LSMU, Kauno Klinikos and LSMU Kaunas Hospital in Vilnius
The Life Sciences Baltics 2025 event, held on 17–18 September in Vilnius, was a special occasion for the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) and its university hospitals. At their joint booth and during the forum sessions, an impressively broad spectrum of scientific achievements, innovations, diagnostic and treatment possibilities was presented – some of them unique not only in Lithuania but also internationally. This year, LSMU’s strategic research directions were showcased at the largest life sciences event in the Baltic…
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25 Sep 2025
RTU Scientists Establish Medical Technology Company, Commercialising Unique Baltic Expertise in Metabolism Research
Drawing on extensive experience in metabolism research in Austria and at Riga Technical University (RTU), Kristaps Klavins, lead researcher at the RTU Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technologies, together with Professor Janis Locs, has established the medical technology start-up «Metabonet». The company provides metabolite analyses to other research organisations and businesses. Their analyses have already received international recognition, having been used in a study published in the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, «Nature».Metabolism is a process that takes place in…
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22 Sep 2025
Evolving trends in global education: South Asian student perspectives
The international education landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, and India is at the very centre of this shift.With one of the largest youth populations in the world and an unrelenting appetite for global learning, Indian students continue to drive international student mobility. Yet, in recent years, policy reforms, stricter visa rules, and shifting immigration pathways in major study destinations have left students and parents feeling uncertain about their future abroad.Countries that were once considered the top destinations – Canada,…
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