Riga Aviation Forum’s Scientific Conference to Focus on Sustainable Development of the Industry

The Latvian Aviation Association, together with the Riga Technical University, the Transport and Telecommunication Institute and the Riga Aeronautical Institute, is committed to facilitate the development of innovative Latvian aviation research by organizing an annual scientific conference on aviation. This is evidenced by the cooperation agreement signed on January 10 this year, in which the parties agreed to promote the development of innovative Latvian aviation research and opinion leadership within European aviation.

The first ever Riga Aviation Forum’s Scientific Conference will take place on May 21, 2020. Organizers of the conference, in cooperation with its main sponsor airBaltic, have this year put the issue of sustainable aviation at the heart of the conference...

We heartily congratulate our Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Konstantin Savenkov on successfully defending his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences on the topic "Conceptual approaches to the formation and development of the collaboration model of the National Innovation system of Latvia"!

On December 19, a group of future air traffic controllers from Kazakhstan successfully completed their training. At the graduation event, future specialists were awarded certificates confirming the implementation of the program "ATCO ab initio course with flight training" and passing the English language exam at the 4th ICAO working level. The event was attended by RAI management, representatives of the Provost Office, as well as instructors and the administration. We wish our graduates a further successful career!

We are pleased to announce that on December 19 there was a graduation of briefing specialists who studied at RAI under the "ARO-Briefing specialists course (Basic)" program. Future specialists have successfully mastered such disciplines as AIS, Meteorology, Human Factor and other subjects important for practical work. We wish them to apply their knowledge in the workplace and a smooth landing as soon as they return home!

From the 13th to 15th of December Riga Aeronautical Institute organized a joint event which included planned studies of the extra mural division, informative and methodological meeting, Latgale branch session and open door day for the future enrollment candidates.
On the 14th of December we conducted informative and methodological meeting for the students of Latgale branch, where Alexander Sokolov, "Kreiss" Project Manager of the Functional Management Department...

On the 13th of November at 14.45 RAI will conduct informative and organization meeting for the pilot students in the classroom 312B. The topics to be discussed will include the process of obtaining Flight Crew License, visa procedures, linguistic aspects and any other issues which may be of interest to the participants.
We invite to attend RAI pilot students, lecturers and administrative staff involved and any other interested external people outside RAI.

On the 22nd of October RAI conducted a practical workshop for instructors and administrative personnel of ATS TO which is a training organization for air traffic controllers. The main objective of the workshop was to provide the information exchange between the workshop participants in order to increase the quality of professional training in the frame of ATS TO.
The workshop started with an opening speech of the Accountable Manager, Michail Karol, and presentation about current and planned activities, made by the Head of Training, Remigijus Bushinsks. Other presentations were dedicated to compliance with requirements of Regulation (EU) 2015/340, quality and safety management systems and connection between professional training and academic education in RAI.
All the participants of the workshop will be awarded with appropriate certificates.

From 23.09.19 to 25.09.19 in the frame of ERASMUS + program the employees of Riga Aeronautical Institute had an opportunity to conduct a familiriazation visit and read a course of lectures at one of the Lithuanian partner universities, Vilnius Gedeminas Technical University. The group consisted of Mg. Oec. Konstantin Savenkov (Director of the program "Transport Services"), Irina Sokolova (Head of the Study Department) and Dr.sc.ing. Vjacheslav Orekhov (Head of the laboratory).
Our employees got acquainted with study process and facilities of the Vilnius Gedeminas Technical University. К. Savenkov conducted a two-hour lecture in the English language in the sphere of economics. The title of lecture was "National ...

RAI Librarian, Ilona Gezha, has attended an educational program at the Latvian National Library "Print and Digital Resources Management in the Library". The program was conducted in the frame of the European Social Fund project 8.4.1.0/1/16/001 "Development of professional competence of employed persons". The participation in the program by our librarian will help us to improve and upgrade the management procedures in RAI library.