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Prime Minister and RTU Vice-Rector in Geneva will discuss opportunities for co-operation between Latvia and CERN

Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis will visit the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, 20 September, get acquainted with its activities and will discuss the possibilities for further cooperation between Latvia and CERN with the CERN directorate. Together with him, Artūrs Zeps, Vice-Rector for Strategic Development of Riga Technical University (RTU), will visit CERN thus confirming RTU’s active role in promoting cooperation between Latvia and CERN.

It is planned that during the visit, M. Kučinskis will meet Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN and will discuss possible cooperation between Latvia and CERN in the future. It is planned that the Head of the Government of Latvia will have discussions with other CERN officials. Together with M. Kučinskis, Kārlis Šadurskis, Minister of Education and Science will also be visiting CERN. He has visited CERN several times, and on October 31, 2016, in Geneva, he signed the Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation between the Government of Latvia and CERN, which opens new opportunities for Latvian scientists, as for a year now they have been able to directly participate in CERN scientific projects.

This contract is the result of a five year purposeful work of RTU, because in 2012 RTU signed its cooperation agreement with CERN and has been successfully cooperating in several scientific projects. In a way the RTU and CERN agreement is a unique document, as the usual practice shows that CERN cooperation agreements are concluded with countries. By entering into cooperation with CERN, RTU committed itself to promoting Latvia’s accession to this research centre, which has been the main centre of exploration of particle physics, innovations and scientific discoveries in the world for 60 years. In CERN the most advanced discoveries that have an impact on global development have been made. It was in CERN where the Internet was invented, and a few years ago, the Higgs boson was discovered using the Large Hadron Collider.

 
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