Challenges of integration on the international level of the Department of Wood Processing of Latvia University of Agriculture
2009
Domkins, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Forest. Dept. of Wood Processing | Spulle, U., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Forest. Dept. of Wood Processing
Taking into account the present situation in forest industry, it is necessary to look for new possibilities how to improve the study process, and how to create conditions and possibilities for the education of new specialists to recover the industry more efficiently exploiting the existing resources, and thus designing new technologies and developing products with higher value added. It is significant for the general development of the forest industry to foster the development of innovations which is possible due to motivation of more gifted students to undertake studies on Master level and doctoral level both in Latvia and abroad. Hence a specialisation within the wood processing study programme is created and extended, and potential students when entering Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU) will have the possibility to choose the specialisation to acquire more extended knowledge: wood products and technologies; industrial design; wood product marketing and logistics. The Department of Wood Processing in cooperation with Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Institute is involved in the activities of technological platform the goal of which is to unite the opinions of the interested parties in order to define strategic research programme in several strategically important issues with high social significance where the development, competitiveness and long-term goals of European future depend on significant steps of research development and technologies in shorter and longer terms. The Department of Wood Processing has close cooperation contacts with several institutions of higher education in Europe, for example, Ecole Supérieure du Bois in Nante, France; Poznan Technological University in Poznan, Poland; and Kaunas Technological University in Kaunas, Lithuania. The project “The Improvement of Master Studies Programmes of the Faculty of Forest, LLU for Integration into International Educational Space” is worked out to foster the implementation of students’ exchange programme both on the inter-disciplinary level and on the international level.
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