SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference

Evita Grigorovica
Rīga Stradiņš University, Medical Education Technology centre
Latvia

Evita Grigorovica is a development project manager Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre. She leads European Social Fund project “Preparation of digital medical simulation scenarios and development of the teaching staff competence in the use of study material repositories”, Erasmus+ project “Digital and hybrid teaching and learning of practical skills in higher education” and participates in the project “Skills Monitoring System”. She is a resarcher in Erasmus+ project “Sills Tracking System as a Digital Solution for Student-Centred Learning” and has gained experience as a scientific assistant in the project “Life with the Covid-19: Assessment of overcoming the crisis caused by the coronavirus in Latvia and proposals for the stability of society in the future” within the National Research Programme of Latvia “Covid-19 Mitigation”. She also is an assistant of the organising committee of the International Multidisciplinary Research Conference "Society. Health. Welfare" and is working on the publication of the conference proceedings. Currently, she is a doctoral student of RSU study programme “Management science”. The topic of the planned doctoral thesis covers skills monitoring of the health care workforce and improvement of human resource management systems in health care institutions.

Andreta Slavinska
Rīga Stradiņš University, Medical Education Technology centre

Andreta Slavinska is Deputy Director of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre and Head of the European Social Fund (ESF) project “Skills Monitoring System”. Her main areas of activity include ensuring the integration of simulation-based medical education at the undergraduate, continuing education and professional development levels, as well as the development of research activity in this thematic segment.  She is researcher in the project “Automated hand washing quality control and quality evaluation system with real-time feedback” and also has been working in the project “Integration of safe technologies for protection against Covid-19 in health care and high-risk areas” within the National Research Programme “Covid-19 Mitigation” in the activity “Hand washing quality assessment system”. Currently, she is a doctoral student of RSU study programme “Law”. The topic of the planned doctoral thesis covers the patients' rights to safe health care, medical errors caused by medical practitioners and the necessary skills in their prevention.

Nora Jansone-Ratinika
Rīga Stradiņš University, Director of the Centre for Educational Growth

Dr. paed. Nora Jansone-Ratinika is an associate professor at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Director of the Centre for Educational Growth. She holds the position of Deputy Chairperson of the Simulation Based Education Council at RSU, is a researcher and an expert in several international projects and a direction supervisor in European Social Fund projects covering specific objectives: reducing fragmentation of study programmes, strengthening sharing of resources and academic staff of HEI, ensuring better governance in HEI. As a leading researcher, N.Jansone-Ratinika has been working in the project “Life with the Covid-19: Assessment of overcoming the crisis caused by the coronavirus in Latvia and proposals for the stability of society in the future” within the National Research Programme of Latvia “Covid-19 Mitigation”, studying the digital competence of the academic staff. Research fields: HE transformations, QA, continuing education of academic staff, student-centred approach, pedagogical innovations in HE.

Guntis Bahs
<span>Rīga Stradiņš University</span>
Latvia