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The Innovation and Business Programme will take place in Latvia (Riga) and the UK (Cambridge). Students motivated to start a business will be invited to participate in the classes with their business ideas. Students will develop their business ideas in the first part of the programme, which will be held in Riga, and when presenting those will compete for the opportunity to participate in the second part of the course, i.e. Innovation Workshops in Cambridge. The programme will be run by experienced lecturers and entrepreneurs from Latvia and Great Britain. The aim of this activity us to promote international cooperation for the development of entrepreneurial competences and the development of innovative ideas, ensuring the cooperation of Latvian students with foreign students.

The aim of the course is to enable students to prepare for scientific work by acquiring practical skills and theoretical background for research. For the purpose, students, under the supervision of the supervisor, develop and publicly defend the research project. The research project is a self-developed scientific work of a student whose basic task is to develop the knowledge of the student itself and to develop research skills in the selected subsector of science. The research project prepares for research work into biological science and the use of appropriate scientific research methods. The basis of the work is to familiarise itself with the scientific literature relevant to the subject, the learning of methods, as well as the acquisition and analysis of results. Course Tasks: 1. start to develop students' ability to carry out scientific research independently; 2. start to develop the ability of students to interpret the results of own and other studies; 3. improving students

The aim of the course is to enable students to prepare for scientific work by acquiring practical skills and theoretical background for research. For the purpose, students, under the supervision of the supervisor, develop and publicly defend the research project. The research project is a self-developed scientific work of a student whose basic task is to develop the knowledge of the student itself and to develop research skills in the selected subsector of science. The research project prepares for research work into biological science and the use of appropriate scientific research methods. The basis of the work is to familiarise itself with the scientific literature relevant to the subject, the learning of methods, as well as the acquisition and analysis of results. Course Tasks: 1. start to develop students' ability to carry out scientific research independently; 2. start to develop the ability of students to interpret the results of own and other studies; 3. improving students

Moot courts are an essential part of the study process at the Faculty of Law. It is only by staging a trial that law students acquire the skills essential for the legal profession. Every year students of the Faculty participate in various international competitions. In order to adapt the study environment to this form of training, the Faculty has set up a courtroom auditorium. Currently, the courtroom is used for training seminars, coaching of students for international moot court competitions and for the defence of doctoral theses. The Council of the Faculty of Law also holds its meetings in this auditorium.

The "Preparation course for the German TestDaF exam" addresses students of all subjects with a command of German at CEF level B2. Its goal is to prepare the students for the “TestDaF” examination, which can be taken in different test centres in more than 80 countries (among them the Latvian test centre at the RTU). The TestDaF assesses the language skills necessary for study in Germany and is acknowledged by all Institutions of Higher Education in Germany. Therefore, the course will expand the students’ reading and listening comprehension as well as their written and oral production skills to CEF level C1 in order to allow them to successfully pass the exam. In addition, the course provides a test run for the “TestDaF” under real-time conditions. All materials and exercises are taken from different modern TestDaF preparatory books.

In 2019, the Kārlis Ozoliņš-Emīls Mednis Charitable Trust (USA) in cooperation with the "Friends of the University of Latvia" has established a scholarship to support students of theology and religious sciences at the University of Latvia (UL). The scholarship is intended for students of all programmes at the UL Faculty of Theology, starting from the 2 nd year of bachelor’s programme studies, to cover tuition fees, daily expenses, participation in conferences or purchase of study materials. For doctoral students of the final year, the support is intended for development of their doctoral thesis. Number of scholarships: For students of bachelor’s and master’s programmes – 2; For students of doctoral programme to support development of their doctoral thesis – not exceeding 2. Scholarship amount: For students of bachelor’s and master’s programmes – 1) EUR3000 per academic year (EUR 2000 to cover tuition fees, EUR 1000 – to contribute toward daily expenses); 2) up

The IREX Baltic Media Literacy Program at the University of Latvia is a project funded by the United States Department of State. It aims to educate media literacy students at the University of Latvia and the general public. The project is implemented at the University of Latvia at the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The program includes educational, creative, and research activities. Within the framework of the project, new study courses have been developed (“Journalism in the Era of Disinformation” (6 ECT) for Communication Science students and “Fundamentals of Media Literacy for Information Specialists” (3 ECT) for Information Management students). In August 2020, summer studies for students of the bachelor level programs at the Faculty of Social Sciences “Three Stories of Media Literacy” took place. In January 2021, 50 students from nine social sciences and humanities master level programs of the University of Latvia participated

The aim of the study course is to enable students to gain in practice useful knowledge about theoretical and practical aspects of producing various legal documents. The task of the study course is to learn in practice the basic principles of producing the more common legal documents (civil rights agreements, legislative acts, various procedural documents). The study course is particularly envisaged for refining students’ practical skills that are common in producing, editing and analysing legal documents of various types.

The study module "Natural language processing for multimodal information processing" is mainly aimed at developing in-depth and highly specialized knowledge level competencies and skills for students studying both humanities, interdisciplinary STEM+-based and information technology study programs. The objective of the study module is to provide students with the opportunity to learn to cooperate, offering and creating solutions to interdisciplinary, multimodal information processing challenges of different levels of complexity, related to language technology and limited definition, within the cycle of lectures, workshops and practical classes. The aims of the study module are to give students the opportunity to practice their skills and improve their understanding of the added value that multimodal information processing methods and tools can provide in the creation and distribution of multimodal digital content, digital editing and publishing, interaction of textual information

The aim of the course is to acquire in-depth knowledge in the one of the sub-fields of international law by participating in moot court of international judicial body. The course entails preparation of selected student teams for moot court competitions – oral presentations, trainings to argue the position of the applicant and respondent, to identify possible questions by judges and prepare answers to them.