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• Second
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IST activities in Latvia and
• opportunities
Third level
for collaboration.
• Fourth level
• Fifth level
Inga Bakane
Riga Technical university
Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology
IST4Balt Project Manager
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General information
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• Capital: Riga (population 788,283)
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• Third level
Languages:
Latvian (official) Russian,
English widely spoken
• Fourth level
Independence: 1991
• Fifth level
• Total
area: 64 100
sq. Km
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• Borders with: Estonia to the north,
Russia and Belarus to the east and
Lithuania to the south, and a maritime
border with Sweden to the west
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Key facts & figures
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• Membership in official organizations: European Union, NATO, UN,
Council of Europe, WTO, OSCE, Council of the Baltic Sea States, EuroAtlantic Partnership Council.
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• Economy*:
• Second level
GDP: 11.0
billions EUR
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level
(2004)
• –Fourth
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GDP growth
in 2004:
8.5% (average over 5
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6.2%)
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* Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, www.csb.lv
Riga Technical University (1862)
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RTU is the
technical
university in
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It offers
advanced programs with the total number of about 12,000
students and 1,500 staff members.
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present RTU comprises 8 faculties:
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• Architecture
••Computer
Sciences and Information Technologies
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• Civil Engineering
••Electrical
Power Engineering
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• Electronics and Telecommunications
••Engineering
Economy
Fifth level
• Materials Science and Applied Chemistry
• Transport and Mechanical Engineering
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Participation in different projects
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In the project activities Faculty of Computer Science
and
Information Technology usually is presented by two institutes
- Applied Computer Systems and Information Technologies.
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Both institutes are permanently involved into performing
educational projects within programmes of
•research
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European Commission, e.g.
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• Inco-Copernicus (AMCAI, DAMAC-HP),
••EC,
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FP5 and FP6, (BALTPORTS-IT, eLOGMAR-M,
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IST4Balt),
••Tempus
(Industrial Logistics Management),
Fifth level
• Leonardo da Vinci (LOGIS and LOGIS-Mobile).
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Priority to Latvia.
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• Perform technology studies and market studies with IST.
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• Manage contacts with the IST projects and EU experts.
• Second level
• Maintain the database of contacts concerning the IST and
FP6 activities
in Latvia and EU legal bodies interested in
• Third
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collaboration with the Baltic States.
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Organise contacts with:
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local authorities (Ministries, City councils, etc.);
representatives of EU in Latvia;
enterprises;
universities;
SME's…
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Management
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Preparation of the 3 Workshop which will be organised at
the same time than Baltic IT&T conference.
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Participation in other EU workshops, seminars and
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conferences in order to distribute information about
different organisations in Latvia.
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 Creation of Information and dissemination centre and
 Publishing of News Journals.
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Results of participation in IST projects
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• Second level
Number of participants
109
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• Third level
The number of the
86
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Contracts
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Pass-rate
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5.FP
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Number of participants
178
• Third
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Number of the projects
144
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Submitted projects
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Come and Work with us!
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Baltic States is aiming to be the
• Fifth
leveldynamic region of Europe
most
for IT!
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Thank you!
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• Third level
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Contact person:
Inga Bakane
• Fifth level
IST4Balt Project Manager
+3719465253
E-mail: [email protected]
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