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become more independent in determining their identities. Nevertheless, the nation-state still fulfils a significant role as a survival unit which maintains the viability of the national identity at present.The in-depth interviews about the issues of formation of national identity in Latvia indicate liberal attitudes towards the state. These attitudes are characterized by an awareness of the rules for membership, the rights and obligations, and an understanding of how the state functions. The processes of migration highlight the potential changeability of the membership in the political community for the respondents. At the same time, these interviews indicated the presence of emotional bonds with the nation-state of Latvia. These processes at the level of the institutional integration – citizens’ contacts with the state institutions and involvement in their activity, provided the basis for their awareness of the territorial and cultural connections with their co-nationals. Another factor

(FunGlass, Slovakia), Dr. Andris Sternbergs (CAMART2 CoE, Latvia), Dr. Dorota Anna Pawlak (Ensemble3 CoE, Poland). Presentations stimulated numerous discussions and initiated potential collaboration topics in the field of materials research: ceramics, crystal growth, laser technological applications, organic and printed electronics, photonics, sensors, batteries, bio and medical applications, nuclear enabled research and possibilities for shared infrastructure use in joint projects. Direct contacts were established and will be further pursued in the following-up for complementary and mutually beneficial research collaborations. Event was hosted and moderated by Coordinator of CAMART2 CoE project – Dr. Andris Sternbergs and it’s operational project manager Andris Ozolins. CAMART2 project is funded from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No. 739508.

aimed at preparing for participation in other ESA programs, such as ScyLight , in which Latvia participates or will participate in the near future. The initial idea of the research came from the commercialization project “New generation wavefront sensors based on the method of coded diffraction patterns” financed by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia and implemented at the ISSP UL, in which the scientists of the Laboratory of Vision Perception had developed a new generation of solutions for measuring and correcting the turbulence of the atmospheric wavefront. Ģirts Ozoliņš, the business consultant of the project, confirms: “With this project, not only our laboratory, but also the ISSP UL has opened a new page in space technology research. We are happy to share our experience and contacts so that anyone with ideas and technological implications can apply for other ESA projects. We plan to develop the application of the wavefront sensor further. Therefore, to test

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The European Latvian Youth Association (ELJA) – History and Importance Ģirts Zēgners Following the occupation of Latvia, Latvian exiles were dispersed across the continents. In the early 1950s young Latvians in the USA, Canada and Western Europe, and later in Australia and to a lesser extent South America, founded their own organisations to guard against the risk of assimilation into the local community, and to meet on a regular basis to discuss their common and varying problems. These young Latvians formed an extensive and powerful network to maintain mutual contact, exchange ideas and collaborate across seas and continents. From the late 1950s onwards, the new “global Latvians” started to establish personal contacts with their contemporaries all over the world. Starting in 1968, young Latvians from across the globe would meet at a succession of 11 World Latvian Youth Congresses, which were attended by up to 500 participants each from the non-communist world. Despite