International Projects
A considerable part of the research undertaken at SSE Riga is either financed through external sources or commissioned to the school. The School’s research profile covers a wide range of fields and the main subjects include:
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Creative industries
- Telecommunications and information technology
- Economic anthropology
- Education
Completed Projects
Accommodating Creative Knowledge
(completed in 2011)
Accommodating Creative Knowledge – Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union (ACRE) is a project funded under priority 7, Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society, within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. The project was launched by the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) in October 2006. It involves a consortium of 13 partners from all over the European Union and aims at evaluating the prospects for the selected city regions in terms of developing as “creative knowledge regions” and improving their “economic profiles”.
The central research question is:
What are the conditions for creating for stimulating creative knowledge regions in the context of the extended European Union? In particular, what is the role of so-called soft factors in creating and stimulating creative knowledge regions?
More information about the ACRE project can be found at the project website.
For additional information about SSE Riga’s participation, please contact Diāna Pauna
Prosperity: Interactive Vocational Training System
(completed in 2007)
The project, financed by the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme, aims at developing an interactive vocational training system – “Prosperity”.This will be done through development of a computer based decision making game simulating a business environment. In addition to the game as such the project includes development of training methods and teaching materials. The system aims at satisfying the needs of students as well as faculties of business schools and universities. The lead partner is Wyzsza Szkola Biznesa – National Louis University Poland. The other partners are University of Molise, Italy and ABB Training Centre in Germany.
More information about the project can be found the project website.
For additional information about SSE Riga’s participation, please contact Kārlis Krēsliņš
Nordic Master’s in Business Administration
(completed in 2007)
The project, which is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers under the Nordplus Neighbour programme, aims at conducting a feasibility study on how to introduce various aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship into the academic curriculum at the Master’s level. In addition to SSE Riga, partners come from Estonia, Norway and Sweden.
For more information, please contact Karlis Kreslins
Silk Road Project
A new and expanded Silk Road has emerged across Eurasia. Latvia is poised to profit as its primary mediator of economic, political, and social relations.Stretching across Eurasia from China in the East, to the EU and it largest trading partner North America in the West, the potential for expanding trade is enormous. Latvia can embrace this opportunity to handle this commerce, or see competing Baltic cities possessing significant advantages seize this historic moment. The Baltic cities and states first capitalizing on their intermediary role between East and West in this reemerging Silk Road will secure advantages quickly, and perhaps permanently.
The Silk Road Project at the SSE Riga is positioned to provide research on navigating this new terrain for business, government, and as facilitator between them in private/public partnerships. We invite the principal actors concerned from government, finance, diplomatic corps, shipping, transit, etc., to hold strategy sessions on how to realize this goal of expanding Latvia's transit trade. The project generates the knowledge, future policymakers, entrepreneurs, and professionals required to cultivate conditions for continued strong economic growth through transit trade. The project is positioned to develop plans for Latvia to exploit opportunities presented by its entry into the EU and its distinctive geography equidistant between Berlin and Moscow, but also its central position that could connect Eurasia, from Japan to China, Central Asia to West Europe, and perhaps even in a Transatlantic context, North America.
For more information, please contact Jeff Sommers.
Best Practice Guidelines for Regional Development Strategies
(completed in 2006)
Best Practice Guidelines for Regional Development Strategies (GRIDS) was funded under the Interreg IIIC programme with Cardiff University as the lead partner. The GRIDS project – designed to identify and disseminate good practice guidelines for regional development and spatial planning– has involved partners and associates from eight different European countries. The findings from the project have been published in“Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union”, edited by Neil Adams, Jeremy Alden and Neil Harris, Ashgate, 2006 and in the Best Practice Guidelines for Regional Development Strategies.
Report: Best Practice Guidelines for Regional Development Strategies
For more information, please contact Anders Paalzow
Entrepreneurship Development in the Border Youth Centres of Latvia and Estonia
(completed in 2006)
Entrepreneurship Development in the Frontier Youth Centres in Latvia and Estonia was funded under the Interreg IIIA North programme. The project focussed on the challenges facing the Youth Centres in Aluksne (Latvia) and Rouge (Estonia) when dealing with young persons in the border regions. Partners in the project were the two youth centres and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. All activities were carried out in Aluksne and Rouge and involved development of a training concept for the youth as well as training of the trainers. The overall objective was to contribute to the development of a coherent and prosperous border region, by:
- Increasing the links between young people on both sides of the border;
- Creating cooperation and an exchange of experience between the two Youth Centres and the organisations running them;
- Developing entrepreneurial skills and attitudes amongst the youth in the border regions.
The project involved approximately 60 young adults in Aluksne and Rogue and was completed in 2006.
For more information, please contact Aivars Timofejevs
