76% of scholarship recipients indicate that the financial support they received became the main incentive to experience working at a school and continue their career in teaching.
Excellence scholarships will be received by master’s students in biology and computer science, doctoral students in exact and medical sciences, newly trained physics, mathematics, chemistry teachers and for the first time, the future geography teachers.
“The remaining donation – 420 thousand euro – will be directed to the sixth round of the ‘MikroTik’ project competition in the field of natural, technological, and medical sciences. Over the years, this competition has enabled UL researchers to acquire equipment and boost their research capacity. Since other project competitions almost never provide for the purchase of equipment, this is a unique opportunity which then opens up many more possibilities for successful participation in international competitions and attract additional funding,” said Zaiga Pūce, Executive Director of the UL Foundation.
SIA Mikrotīkls is a Latvian company that manufactures and develops computer network management tools, including software and routers. The company’s equipment is distributed worldwide and used by Internet service providers, companies, and individual users.
The company is also a generous patron of the UL Foundation, and has donated more than 7.6 million euro to the UL Foundation since 2011, creating opportunity to finance significant research projects, implement scholarship programmes, and announce calls for project applications enabling the purchase of research equipment.
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