Latvia - China Academic Exchange Centre of the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia is pleased to announce the call for papers for the undergraduate students’ conference “Smart Collaboration: Searching for Innovative Patterns and Methods” to be held at the Department of Political Science, University of Latvia from 27 to 28 November 2019. Deadline for submission of papers November 10.

Latvia University Social Science Faculty in collaboration with the European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD) and the Ministry of Interior hosts the 30th annual conference in Riga between the 26th to the 28th of September. ESSD is a European level conference that takes place in different European cities each year. Riga is the first of the Baltic cities to be chosen to host.

September 16th, 1.00-3.00 p.m. the public lecture - scientific discussion of the project “E-leadership in local government organizations will be held at the University of Latvia.

University of Latvia (UL) Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Advanced Social and Political Research Institute (ASPRI) until August 15th extends call for papers and panels for the 3rd Riga Readings in Social Sciences (RRSS) "15 Years After the Great Enlargement – What is EU for?". The conference will take place on November 14-15 this year at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences.

Four universities-partners (Siauliai University (Lithuania), Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany), University of Latvia (Latvia) and University of Tartu (Estonia)) is implementing the international scientific project ʺE-leadership in local government organizationsʺ (01.06.2019-15.11.2019). This project of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany (agreement No. 2019/14 on financing the project of the Baltic german university liaison office /Nr.SU-27- (8.2)).

University of Latvia (UL) Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Advanced Social and Political Research Institute (ASPRI) announces call for papers and panels for the 3rd Riga Readings in Social Sciences (RRSS) "15 Years After the Great Enlargement – What is EU for?". The conference will take place on November 14-15 this year at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences (Lauvas St. 4, Riga, Latvia). Working language: English.

11TH SUMMER SCHOOL 26th -30th August 2019 Riga (Latvia) "MEASURING OUTCOMES OF SOCIAL WORK" will be hosted by the University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Science
The Nordic-Baltic Doctoral Network in Social Work (NBSW) is a joint network of the doctoral schools, universities and other institutions in social work in seven countries. The network provides research training for PhD students in social work in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but also for PhD students in social work from countries outside the network.

On Monday, March 25th, at 15.00 an event will be held at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia (Raina bulv. 7), where a photograph of the 25 March 1949 Soviet deportations will be premiered. This unique document, one of four photos known to exist, was found during a scientific expedition in 25 July, 2018 by Oskars Gruziņš. Gruziņš, a PhD student in communication science at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia, found the photo as a result of his research in the Maria Sklodowska-Kiri innovative training network "Children born of war- past present, and future" (CHIBOW).