State Education and Development Agency (VIAA) informs that application round for Latvian State scholarship competition for studies and research for the academic year 2020/2021 is completed and that evaluation committee, comprised of representatives from the VIAA, Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia and Student Union of Latvia finished evaluation of the applications.

The State Education Development Agency (SEDA) announces the fourth competition for selecting research applications under the activity “Post-doctoral Research Aid”. The deadline for submission is 20 July, 2020. 

In order to address concerns over the impact of the coronavirus to the organisation of public events and ban on international travel, conference organizers are extending the Early bird registration rate and the deadline for the Call for Papers of the IAEVG International conference in Riga until 30 April 2020.

The International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG), in partnership with the State Education Development Agency (SEDA), is holding their annual international conference on October 20-22 in Riga, Latvia, to highlight the importance of guidance in economic development as well as the development of the field of career guidance in general.  

The Programme Committee of European Economic Area (furthermore – EEA) and Norway financial instruments Baltic Research Programme (furthermore – Committee) on 21 November 2019 decided that research projects within Latvian open call for proposals in 2020 must address at least one of the topics under five priorities.

Pavel Štoll, an assistant professor from the Czech Republic has used the Latvian state scholarship to come to continue his research at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia, because his principal job at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague is related to teaching of Latvian literature, culture and language, and Pavel is the head of the Department of Baltic Studies.