PROJECTS

Nordplus network Ekoteknord

The goal of the project is to foster the mobility of students and lecturers in the spheres of business, IT, engineering, logistics, communication and media, as well as fostering cooperation with enterprises in supplying internship, organising visits to enterprises and guest-lectures by representatives from enterprises.

Type of project: Nordplus higher education

Implementation period: 01.09.2016. – 30.06.2017.

Total budget: NA

Main activities:

Mobility of students and lecturers;
Intensive programs;
Development projects.

Cooperation partners:

Leading partner: Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway
All partners see here: www.ekoteknord.nu/network.html

Study directions: Information technologies, communication and journalistics, business

More information: www.ekoteknord.nu

Contacts:

Project manager at ViA:

Katrīne Reima

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Tel.: +371 22042022

ViA staff involved: Liene Ločmele, Maira Leščevica

Economic Policy Analysis of the USSR Occupation Period

Latvijas okupācijas projekts

Full title of the project: Information collection, evaluation and analysis, data entry, verification and revision for the identification of the number of victims and mass graves of the USSR totalitarian communist occupation regime, for gathering information on repressions and mass deportations and for the calculation of the losses caused to the Latvian state and its people.

Project manager: HESPI researcher Dr. hist. Gatis Krūmiņš

Implementation period: 01.06.2017 - 30.11.2017.

Project No: TM 2017/9/Komisija

Total budget: 4550 eur

EDU-SMEs: Curriculum alignment and cross-border cooperation with SMEs

Edusmes Interreg

The aim of the project is to to develop a better match between the competencies of graduates and the needs of companies in the Central-Baltic region.

New knowledge and pedagogical approaches are integrated in existing curricula and students will gain new competencies especially in the field of internationalization of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). The project also supports individual SMEs in their internationalization through cross-border activities that link SMEs with faculty and students in their target markets. The project activities include joint development and delivery of an e-learning course on internationalization of SMEs.

As a result of the project, the partners’ curricula in business management and entrepreneurships are aligned and cross-border cooperation with SMEs is expected to increase.

Duration: 01.09.2015 - 28.02.2017

Total budget: €256 692

ERDF: €209 058

Project homepage: www.edusmes.eu

Partners:

Arcada University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Lead partner
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (Estonia)
TTK University of Applied Sciences (Estonia)
Valmiera Business and Innovation Incubator (Latvia)
Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (Latvia)

Project manager at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences: ViA professor Maira Leščevica

Project manager: Eija Kallstrom, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland

European Economic Zone and Norwegian financial instrument project activity “Grants”

General goal of the project is to foster mobility of staff and students among the partnering universities, internationalisation, exchange of experience, knowledge transfer and strengthening cooperation for future joint projects and research.

Full title of the project: "Mobility scholarships for academic staff and students to expand understanding about the digital media audiences".

Project number: EEZ/NFI/S/2015/030

Specific goal of the project: strengthening cooperation between Latvia and Norway through research “Phenomens of the contemporary mediated environment: propaganda, youth audience and media effects” – strengthen academic capacity, foster development of new study module, foster mobility of students.

The target group: Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences students, academic staff, cooperation partners in the regional and national level.

The leading partner: Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences

Cooperation partners: NLA University College Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication

Project implementation period: 01/01/2016 - 31/01/2017

Project budget: 184040 EUR

Project funding: European Economic Zone (EEZ) and Norwegian financial instrument (NFI) – 100%

Main results of the project:

Mobility of the academic staff and students: 1 student mobility and 6 academic staff mobilities were implemented
Exchange of experience on innovative teaching methods
Improved content of study courses
Development of a new master level study module with particular focus on media literacy and critical media analysis and consumption
Signed cooperation agreement to implement further international activities

Development of interdisciplinary and internationally oriented study offer in the field of media and communication: planning of new master level study modules in media literacy and communication as well as joint intensive summer course in 2018
Increased awareness of students in Latvia and Norway about topics such as the phenomena of the digital media environment particularly construction of digital self, digital footprint, big social data; different group representations in media particularly immigrants and various media effects
Joint research on media literacy and consumption issues in European countries

Student innovation labs – a way to sustainable and socially responsible growth (INNOLABS)

INNOLABS Erasmus +

The EU has defined smart and sustainable growth as one of the priorities (EU Strategy 2020).An essential part for reaching these priorities is innovation. The aim of the INNOLABS project is to support transfer of creative, bottom-up innovation approaches for fostering smart and sustainable growth based on more experienced partners’ knowledge in the Netherlands and Denmark.

Project aim is to create student innovation laboratories in the project partner universities – Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in Latvia, Estonian Academy of Arts in Estonia and Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.

Project duration:

September 2014 – August 2016

There are following activities in the project:

1) Study visits;

2) Feasibility studies about innovation conditions in partner universities in Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus;

3) Elaboration of development plans for innovation laboratories in Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus partner universities;

4) Student co-creation projects in the newly established innovation labs in Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus;

5) Development of methodologies and guidelines for innovation labs;

6) Different dissemination activities.

Project is implemented by the lead partner “Foundation for Society” (Latvia) in cooperation with project partners Stichting NHL (The Netherlands), Alborg University (Denmark), Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), Interfusion Services (Cyprus), Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia) and Stockholm Environmetnal Institute Tallinn Centre (Estonia) and Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (Latvia).

The other partners who represent countries with lower innovation capacities (Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus) want to learn from this experience, test the approaches and establish similar labs in their countries, making long-term, interesting and innovative projects and businesses which are sustainable, socially responsible and are recognizable in the region where the innovation model is operating.

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