In cooperation with international partners from Poland and France and Cewood, the only producer of fibrolite (wood particleboard) in the Baltics, scientists from Riga Technical University (RTU) Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering are developing innovative construction products for nearly zero energy buildings, using only wood construction residues and by-products. The research is an important contribution of the researchers to the development of a circular economy in the construction sector.
On 18 June, the Rector of Riga Technical University (RTU), Tālis Juhna, together with more than twenty other heads of companies and organisations, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on the establishment of a biorefining ecosystem that will make a significant contribution to the development of the bioeconomy. Biorefining is a fast-growing industry that provides for the processing of biomass into energy or consumer products used in the production of building materials, the food industry and other areas, according to the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA).
Latvia has become part of the global high-performance computing infrastructure community by joining the European Nuclear Research Centre (CERN) supercomputer network, so that large-scale scientific data processing will now also take place in Latvia. This historic moment was confirmed by a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 5 June by the Minister of Finance, Arvils Ašeradens, on behalf of the Minister of Education and Science, and CERN's Director of Information Technology and Research, Joachim Mnich.
