CONNECT Latvija
Biedrība CONNECT Latvija
Rīga, Latvia
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CONNECT Latvija is a non-profit association based in Rīga, Latvia working on employment & skills, education, elderly care.
CONNECT Latvija is a non-profit membership association based in Riga that aims to help create and develop new, innovative companies in Latvia. It organises programmes, events and mentoring that bring together young entrepreneurs, inventors, students, mentors, investors and experts. Its best-known initiative is the Riga-Cambridge Venture Camp, run with Professor Alan Barrell and Anglia Ruskin University, which trains participants in business idea development and takes them to Cambridge, UK. The association also runs the OSIRIS silver economy project, exhibitions of inventions such as MINOX, and open webinars, and it is linked to Latvian universities and the Riga City Council.
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Uzņēmējdarbības nometne Rīgā un Kembridžā (Riga-Cambridge Venture Camp)
Employment & Skills · Latvia, United Kingdom
Two-stage entrepreneurship programme for start-ups, innovators and students, with a Riga phase of lessons and mentoring followed by an intensive week in Cambridge.
Viedā sudraba laboratorija (Smart Silver Lab)
Elderly care · Latvia
Innovation and accelerator initiative developing products and services that improve the quality of life of older people in the silver economy.
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Anglia Ruskin University, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Biznesa vadības koledža, Cambridge Worldwide Associates, Rīgas dome, Latvijas Universitāte, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte
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