g. Further education

The Further Education Department offers those interested to advance their qualification and improve skills and competences required in the labor market, enrolling in some of the courses from a wide and versatile range of courses. The offer allows for professional advancement, non-formal adult education, and acquisition of separate courses. In 2021, in spite of the fact that adult education process could not be organized onsite due to COVID-19 related restrictions, more than 2,500 people advanced their knowledge remotely in the course of further education, including the ESF project “Development of Professional Competencies of the Employees”.

RTU cooperates with both entrepreneurs, offering individual learning opportunities, and other higher education institutions in Latvia and abroad in order to improve its experience and education offer. More than 1,300 employees remotely acquire study courses and professional advancement programs offered by RTU

In cooperation with the State Education and Development Agency, RTU organized online courses providing an opportunity to acquire one out of eight study courses and eleven professional advancement educational programs in the remote format. The offer of courses was mainly focused on the development and advancement of digital and ICT skills, making particular emphasis on programming, although students could also enroll in the programs related to personal data protection and information security, digital marketing, design thinking, robotics, etc. More than 1,300 employees completed the courses within the project. “WEB Programming Languages and Development (PHP, Javascript, Python)” and “Design Thinking, Project, Product and Process Management with Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban” were the most popular professional advancement programs – they were selected by more than 260 people who wanted to improve their skills.