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Baiba Rivza professor , Latvia. Mentoring in Latvia Universities. It is important to have the vision, especially in the time of economic downturn, both, in a national level ( Latvian National development plan in Latvia 2009-2013,Latvia 2030) and
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Baiba Rivzaprofessor, Latvia Mentoring in Latvia Universities
It is important to have the vision, especially in the time of economic downturn, both, in a national level( Latvian National development plan in Latvia 2009-2013,Latvia 2030)and in a community level, like, EU strategy “Europe 2020” Vision
Europe 2020 puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities: – Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation. – Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy. – Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion. EU headline targets: – 75 % of the population aged 20-64 should be employed. – 3% of the EU's GDP should be invested in R&D. Europe 2020strategy
It is important to have at least mid term forecast for the demand and offer of the labor market (Prepared by the Ministry of Economics in Latvia) To change the development model towards knowledge and innovation based added value production economy Identified and set priority fields for economic recovery in midterm perspective (prepared by the Ministry of Economics and approved by the Cabinet of Ministers 10.11.2009)(electronic and telecommunication devices, pharmacology, devices for the radiological etc diagnostics, medical devices, chemical materials, instruments etc as well as several services) Priority fields for the recovery- Latvia example
It is important to ensure the education of the specialists, necessary for the fields important for the economic recovery State financed budget plases in the priority fields – natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, IT, building and construction, agriculture, health, environment, transport, creative industries Priority fields for the recovery- Latvia example_2
Students inLatvia HEI Totalnumberof students: 129 503 Students of 15 private HEI 33 718 (26%) Students of private colleges 5364 (4%) Students of state colleges 5605 (4%) Students of 19 state HEI 84 816 (66%) Full time students 74 381 (57%) Part time students 55 122 (43%) Students financed by state 30 179 (23%) Studying for the fee 99324 (77%)
For development of innovation, both, highly qualified human capital and competitive research, are necessary • Several important tasks: • First of all, to assure the governments to recognize even in crisis that education is public responsibility • Improvement of the quality of education to acquire better skills and competences • To enhance the collaboration between educational establishments and employer organisations To ensure stability – the central role has to be devoted to triangle – education, research, innovation
To motivate the students choose the study disciplines in respect with the state needs To develop lifelong learningsystem to allow to keep the competences online with fast changing needs of the globalised economy and labor market It is necessary to increase the regional and international cooperation!! Tasksformentors
Latvia UniversityofAgriculture
Centerofeducation, scienceandculture EDUCATION Providingbothhigheracademicandproffesionaleducationinall 9 faculties: • Agriculture • VeterinaryMedicine • FoodTechnology • Engineering • Forest • Economics • RuralEngineering • SocialSciences • Information Technologies
Encouraging first year students Supervision of the final thesis for bachelor, master and doctoral studies To help to students – young mothers To promote students research To promote professional carrer MEntors tasks at the LUA
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