The Ministry of Education and Science has awarded one million euros for cooperation with the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The funding comes from a programme of European Union funds. The aim of the cooperation is to promote the development of new technologies and the transfer of knowledge and excellence in Latvian research and higher education.
It is planned that an international centre of excellence in education and innovation will be established in Latvia as part of the cooperation, so that any higher education institution in Latvia will be able to benefit from MIT support.
The government decision provides for EU funding support of 300,000 euros for the implementation of the Action Plan of the Latvian National Contact Point of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This provides for the participation of Latvian scientists and entrepreneurs in CERN experiments (CMS and MEDICIS) in 2021. The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in high energy physics. MEDICIS, on the other hand, is primarily based on the use of accelerator technology in medicine.
