In response to MIT's Research Alliance for Intelligent Software & Systems (MIT RAISE) Day of AI, which aimed to ignite curiosity and promote responsible use of AI among school students, Riga Business School (RBS) took the initiative to host Latvia's first-ever AI Day celebration on Friday, May 17th. We wanted to continue this momentum and welcomed high school students to join us. Building on the MIT RAISE establishment of the official Day of AI on May 13th, Riga Business School chose May 17th to dedicate [...]

Riga Business School proudly announces the successful gathering of its Visiting Committee, including representatives from industry, academia, and public administration. The committee, which meets three times a year, plays a crucial role in guiding the institution’s development by providing valuable external perspectives. The May meeting brought together members from the Bachelor Programs' Committee and the Master Programs' Committee to discuss key issues impacting higher education and the advancement of RBS. The agenda featured discussions on the importance and impact of the Visiting Committee, insights from [...]

Last weekend, on 11 May, the final of the Programming competition organized by Riga Business School as a unit of Riga Technical University took place. Nine of the strongest Latvian teams presented their ideas out of 28 submitted projects. The 1st place went to Anastasija and Sofja Kizikas from Rezekne State Gymnasium No 1. They presented a didactic mathematics computer game „Exciting Mathematics” developed in the subject of Programming, which helps students to learn mathematics in an exciting way. The main aim of the Programming competition [...]

To showcase to the wider public the ideas of high school students that use programming to solve a problem of a social group and to stimulate young people's interest in programming, Riga Business School, as a department of Riga Technical University, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science and the technology company LMT announced this spring a programming competition for high school students who developed their projects in the subject of Programming. 28 project applications were received from 20 Latvian schools. A total [...]