3^rd International Scientific Conference “Solutions on Harmonizing Sustainability and Nature Protection with Socio-Economic Stability” of the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) and Nature Conservation Agency North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve, starts today in Valmiera, ViA.

Independent film maker and former Long Island University professor Lucille Rhodes in collaboration with Professor Gregory Nathaniel Taff from University of Memphis and 3 Media studies and Journalism programme students from Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) will make documentary short film on hogweed.

From August 4 to 18 Vidzemes University of Applied Sciences (ViA) is organizing the 2^nd programme of this year’s Baltic International Summer School – “Environmental Awareness. Communication. Interpretation.” realized within Erasmus Intensive Programme framework. The project will involve students and lectures from partner universities in Finland, Turkey, the Netherlands, USA, Canada and Latvia.

“At ViA, 24% of our graduates in 2009-10 had been abroad. This is ahead of the 20% agreed in the Bologna Process for 2020,” proffers Iveta Putnina referring to the university’s success in its internationalisation strategy.

Putnina is Head of Study, Research and International Relations at Vidzemes University of Applied Sciences. When she joined the university in 2003 the building blocks for Erasmus were already firmly in place.