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Open seminar about sustainability opportunities in biotechnology

We are pleased to announce a new open seminar. This time, our colleague and postdoc researcher Anna Stikane will present her research on...

New scientific article on the media narrative on climate change

We are happy to share the latest research article “How to recognise the inevitable: Latvian media narratives on climate change”...

Research mobility at the London South Bank University (LSBU)

Our colleague Jeļena Ziemele has just returned from her research mobility at the London South Bank University (LSBU). Jelena wants to...

Waste to energy and circular economy: the case of anaerobic digestion

A new book has just been published by Elsevier, in which Jouni Havukainen from LUT (Finland) and Elina Dace are co-authors of Chapter 8...

Visiting students at Riga Hansa secondary school

Our colleague Jelena Ziemele gave a lecture on "Sustainable development of energy systems" to 9th-grade students at Riga Hansa Secondary...

Open seminar on designing microbes for local biotechnology applications

We are pleased to announce a new on-site seminar. This time, Alīna Reķēna, a PhD student in Bioengineering at Tallinn University of...

Guest researcher from the University of Strathclyde

Thank you to the EU COST action WIRE that enabled us to host Morgen Mukamwi from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in our group...

Presenting research at the LCA Foods in Peru

Steven Hawking has once told that “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” This time...

Jelena's research mobility in Italy

Our colleague Jelena Ziemele spent two weeks (18.09.2022. - 30.09.2022.) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of...

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Today September 29 is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Our group runs several projects that address the food...

Open seminar on metabolic reprogramming

We are happy to announce that we will finally host an on-site seminar. Our colleague Ehsan Motamedian, who has been working at our...

First Estonian Zero Waste Conference

Our colleague Raimonda Soloha attended the First Estonian Zero Waste Conference on September 14, 2022, in Tallinn. The conference was...

Research visit to Netherlands (II)

Our colleague Anna Stikane recently returned from another mobility visit to the Netherlands, where she visited Dr. Rebecca...

Workshop on incorporating adaption in labour and mortality impacts

With an excellent venue in Venice, Italy this year’s workshop on incorporating adaption in labour and mortality impacts into climate...

First GenCon project meeting after summer

GenCon project partners restarted the project after the summer break, discussing options for fermentation control. The objective of using...