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Environmental Science Award 2017

Environmental Science Award 2017 was held in University of Latvia on March 24 and it was the eighth time when it happened. The aim of this event is to evaluate and appreciate teachers, scientists, non-governmental organisations for the actualising the environmental problems and promoting sustainable environmental science and education. This year, not only four already known nominations were awarded: „The new environmental scientist”, „Environment science teacher”, „Environmental activist group”, „Environment scientist and university pedagogue” but also „Bio-economy prize” was applied to an enterprise for developing an innovative product with high added value. The members of the jury from the Environmental.

Science Night in RTU IESE

On 25th September in the Science Night schoolchildren and students took part in creative workshop “Light and shadow game” where they made shadow cinema on the topic of environmental issues by using different kind of natural materials. Also they visited workshop “The development of solar photovoltaic elements”, were they made their own organic Solar photovoltaic element.

IESE PhD student is one of the TOP 20 Women in Business in Northern Europe!

Ginta Cimdina is well-known by the crème de la crème of European energy circles, notably because of her role as chair since 2009 of Fortum Jelgava, the Latvian district heating operator of Fortum, a large Finnish energy company, which focuses its operations in the Nordics, Baltics, Poland and Russia. Formally educated in finance and environmental sciences related to the energy industry,Ms Cimdina has more than 20 years professional experience in the energy sector. She is an active representative of Fortum in many NGOs, including the Association of District Heating Companies in Latvia and the Latvian Renewable Energy Federation. She currently.

Guest lecture on chemicals’ environmental fate and modern risk assessment by professor from Finland

On April 16, at 16:30-19:50 Dr.Arto Sormunen will visit the Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, RTU, to give lectures on chemicals’ behavior in soils/sediments, their environmental fate and factors behind that. Dr.Arto Sormunen will also discuss modern risk assessment methods. The lecture will be given in the Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering, Āzenes Street 12/1, room 115. The lecture will be given in English. Everyone interested is kindly invited to attend the lecture. Dr. Arto Sormunen is the head of degree programme of Environmental Engineering in Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences (Finland). His special field is ecotoxicology and.