Representatives of the RSU administration attend the general meeting of LSPA employees

On Tuesday, April 23, representatives of the Riga Stradiņa University (RSU) administration attended the monthly general meeting of Latvian Sports Pedagogy Academy (LSPA) employees to inform about issues related to the takeover of LSPA staff.

In the introduction to the meeting, LSPA Rector Kalvis Ciekurs emphasized that after the four-way cooperation agreement was signed on April 18 between the two universities, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and Science, the negotiations will become more and more constructive and there will be fewer and fewer unresolved issues. RSU and LSPA colleagues have already started negotiations at the level of structural units. Employees of several departments, for example, from the Finance Department, the Personnel Department, the IT Department, the Communication Department, have met and discussed how the work will be organized in the future. Meetings of working groups on the adjustment of study programs have also been going on for several months.

In the continuation, RSU vice-rector for administration and development Toms Baumanis emphasized that the greatest attention should be paid to the continuity and successful development of the study process. He called on LSPA colleagues to continue the training of sports specialists with the same success, emphasizing that all students will continue and finish studying at LSPA under the same conditions as they started their studies in the specific study programs. During the consolidation process, the implementation of study programs in the future will be evaluated with RSU colleagues, and study programs will be adjusted according to the requirements of the labor market.

RSU Personnel Department Director Dace Jasmane and Administration and Development Vice-Rector Toms Baumanis

T. Baumanis expressed his gratitude to all the researchers who had applied for the research and academic career grant competition of the consolidation plan of the two universities and received funding for conducting important research in the field of sports science.

Dace Jasmane, director of RSU’s Personnel Department, said that during the reorganization process, RSU will take over working relations with all LSPA colleagues who want to continue their work at RSU. She outlined the immediate activities of the process of taking over LSPA employees, answered the previously sent questions, and also called for individual consultations or to send unclear questions to e-mails: personnelrsu[pnkts]lv; dace[pnkts]Jasminersu[pnkts]lv; anita[pnkts]Weinbergrsu[pnkts]lv.