An international IP course „Rethinking Climate Change: Arts and Theology” was held at the Latvian Christian Academy in March 14-18 with participants from art universities of Finland, Norway and Lithuania besides LChrA. Students acquired penetrating knowledge about the use of Climate symbols in the history of European art and its theoretical foundations from various perspectives, […]
Joint seminar on „Demographic Transition and Opportunities of Life-long Learning” was held in Tallinn, February 4-5, it was organized by EZA and ETOK (EE). Representatives from Tallinn University, University of Rome, and University of Madrid as well as from Estonian Ministry of Education and Science and trade unionists took part in the Seminar. Latvian side […]
Solemn Latvian Christian Academy Senate meeting was held in December 10 when two people were awarded with the Honorary Doctor of the LChrA (Doctor Honoris Causa) degree. Eskil Albertsson (Swedish Alliance Mission) and Jan Gossner (former organizer of Diaconal work across Europe, lecturer and pastor; Norway). Cooperation with Swedish and Norwegians partners started back in […]
The 2010 has been announced as the year of Climate changes by European Commission to call more attention to ecological issues. Christian Academy responded with the project „Climate symbols in art and theology” and became a NORDPLUS project coordinator within the project cluster „Nets of higher education”. The first meeting of the ECTA net was […]
Was opened in the Jūrmala Culture Centre in November 30. The opening was attended by artists, students of the Academy, local artists, journalists and foreign guests (Tenu Lehtsaar – Estonia, Kirsti Nenye – Finland, Bjorn Øyvind Fjeld – Norway, Saulus Jarašius and Vaidas Mationis – Lithuania).
The seminar was held with financial support of European Commission and it had twofold goals: to analyze the new Latvian Government’s Declaration from the perspective of Lisabon strategy and to discuss the job policy in Europe and the place of Latvia in it. Seminar participants welcomed the former Eurocomisar Mr Partho Pronk – curator of […]
Commission of experts from the centre of the Higher Education Quality Assurance worked at the LChrA in October 21 – 22. The Commission was led by prof. J.Zaļkalns (Riga Stradiņš University), members – prof. T. Lehtsaar (University of Tartu), prof. R.Kokins, dean of the Faculty of Theology, Latvian University, and representative of Latvian Students’ Concil […]