Davis Indriksons: To accelerate growth, you have to recognize your limits

Davis Indriksons describes himself as a storyteller with many interests all related to storytelling, including video editing, public speaking, and various other projects.  These interests evoke human emotions and allow people to discover and learn more. Currently, Davis is a 2nd-year Bachelor of Business Administration student at Riga Business School and the host of the Riga Business School podcast "Bottom Line Studio" for the second season. He was also the president of the Student Union for 2022/2023. Davis has many hobbies - acting, playing the [...]

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No Time to Slack on Spring Break! Technology Teachers Brainstorm New Ways to Teach

Imagine a full day of workshops and discussions that flies by so fast that you don’t even notice. On March 16th, almost 200 education and technology experts, teachers of Programming, Computer Science, and Design and Technology subjects for grades 7-12, gathered for Idea Day. They exchanged their experience, stories, were inspired, and learned about specific tools and methods for meaningful teaching of technology subjects. Today’s technology is growing at an exponential rate and so it is a challenge for technology teachers to create relevant learning [...]

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Eliza Gulbe: Studying is a major self-investment

Eliza Gulbe is a socially active, energetic and academically powerful young woman, who is a third-year student at Riga Business School's Bachelor of IT Leadership programme. Eliza combines her studies with work at the Latvian education technology start-up Edurio, where she works as a Business Operations Specialist, coordinates social projects to support the integration of Ukrainian refugees into Latvian society and manages the Riga Business School Ambassador Programme, which aims to inspire young people to choose a high-quality and international education here in Latvia. In [...]

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Women from Zambia and Namibia study entrepreneurship with Riga Business School students

Latvian diaspora experts from the movement #esiLV and Riga Business School lecturers together with partners from Africa launched the country's first development cooperation project in Africa last year. The project started with a visit from the Latvian delegation to Zambia and Namibia where Riga Business School representatives conducted an entrepreneurial boot camp for around 60 African women to strengthen women's involvement in entrepreneurship. In January, these women joined Riga Business School's four-month certificate training program in entrepreneurship in an online course led by Riga Business [...]

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Differences Between Education in Latvian and the Unites States | Buffalo Program Participant Reflections

Antra Ozola is a professor and a senior researcher at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Education, Psychology, and Art. Her areas of expertise include large-scale international studies of education, education management, and quality of education. Her main research interests include statistics, cybernetics, and applied informatics. She is skilled in teaching and learning. In the fall semester of 2022, she spent time at the University of Buffalo, strengthening her digital skills. At the end of the semester, Dr. Ozola reflected on the differences between the [...]

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