Decision-Making Bodies

06 Decision-Making Bodies

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a. Constitutional Assembly

Constitutional Assembly is an authorized highest collegiate representative and administrative decision-making body of RTU.

On October 23 2014, the Parliament of Latvia (Saeima) approved the law “On the Constitution of Riga Technical University”, which took eff ect on November 5 2014. On December 8 2014, RTU Academic Assembly approved the RTU Constitutional Assembly Regulations. On May 11 2015, RTU Academic Assembly

b. Senate

CHAIRPERSON OF THE SENATE PROFESSOR Dr. oec. Elīna Gaile-Sarkane The Senate of RTU is a statutory collegial administrative and decision-making body that approves the internal code of conduct and regulations governing all spheres of RTU activity. Since December 2014, RTU Senate consists of 50 members. was renamed as Constitutional Assembly. 200 members of the Constitutional Assembly are elected by an open ballot by the students, academic and general personnel for the term of three years. Constitutional Assembly comprises 50 members of RTU Senate, the remaining Meetings of the Senate are arranged in such a way that any senator of RTU could be more involved in discussions to actively represent the opinion delegated by their organizational units. Beyond the Senate meetings, the senators actively participate in the work of the Senate commissions. The Senate commissions are established in the areas that are signifi cant for the university operation and are intended for considering and providing statements on proposals submitted for consideration at the Senate meetings and conformity of the documents to be approved to the RTU strategic goals. Since 2016, the Senate meetings are held in the new building of RTU Scientifi c Library or Student House. Its modern-fi tted meeting hall ensures excellent working conditions and is equipped with multimedia equipment that facilitates the work of senators. In total, during ten regular (planned) working meetings of 150 members of the Assembly are elected proportionally by university administration, faculties, institutes, which are not part of some faculty, branches and student council. Representation wise, the proportion of the academic personnel is minimum 60% and

the proportion of students is 20%. the Senate, every year on average 160 to 200 draft projects are considered. A competition is announced annually for minimum 30 positions of professors and associate professors, the titles of RTU Honorary Employees are granted, 30–40 regulations of diff erent kind are approved, 25–30 amendments to diff erent regulations are introduced and a lot of signifi cant decisions are drawn up.

In 2016, the title of RTU Honorary Member was granted to RTU graduate and a long-term cooperation partner Vilnis Rantiņš, whereas the title of RTU Professor Emeritus was granted to Juris Briņķis.

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