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Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry

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Our vision

The Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry as a Baltic bioeconomy excellence centre will promote biorefinery as the backbone of future industry, and wood as a modern, sustainable building material, thus reducing the use of fossil resources and achieving Europe 2050 Zero Emission goals.

Research activity

The staff of the Latvian State Institute od Wood Chemistry represent various scientific disciplines, inlcuding, chemistry, biology, materials science. The main scientific directions of the Insitute are wood materials, biorefinery, green chemistry, which evolve by combining fundamental and applied research.

The research topics of the Institute mirror the versatility of nature, and find applications in different fields.

Our mission

is the development of competitive materials and products from wood and other biomass with scientifically based, environmentally friendly low-waste technologies.
 

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Events

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Date
11 December, 2024
Location
Ģentes universitāte

Workshop “Advancing Green Chemistry Technologies”

On 11 December this year, the workshop "Advancing Green Chemistry Technologies" will take place at Ghent University, Belgium, and will cover topics such as: Greening pharmaceutical synthesis – more sustainable methodology Benign by Design Artificial Intelligence Production / scale-up plants Leading researcher of the Biorefinery Laboratory, Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry Jānis Rižikovs will be a speaker at the seminar and will talk about the extraction of valuable extracts from birch bark. He will share his experience in developing extraction technologies, scaling them up and cooperating with entrepreneurs, as well as provide insights into the use of the biologically active extractive betulin. More information about the workshop and registration is available here
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Date
28 April, 2025 - 30 April, 2025
Location
Rīga

BISC-E student competition National final

The national final of the "Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge Europe BISC-E" will take place at the end of April 2025. BISC-E is an annual event organised by the Bio-Based Industries Consortium to reward outstanding students working in the bioeconomy who are ready to actively, creatively and skillfully address the technological challenges faced by society today. The website of the international competition can be found here Latvian university students are invited to take part in a competition in which student teams must present their innovation - an environmentally friendly, sustainable product or technology. The Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry organises the National final of the BISC-E competition. Participants are invited to register their teams by 15 December by emailing the BISC-E local contact Uģis Cābulis (ugis.cabulis@kki.lv). To register, please send the team name, the names of the team members and the consultant, as well as a description of the innovation in up to 150 words in English. The teams will afterwards prepare full descriptions of their innovations and give presentations at the National final, which will take place during the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry's Student Conference in April 2025. During the National final, a jury will select the winner, who will receive a cash prize and the opportunity to participate in the European final.
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Date
15 April, 2026 - 15 May, 2026
Location

International Conference for Young Scientists BTechPro2026

The first International Conference for Young Scientists on Biorefinery Technologies and Products "BTechPro!" was established in 2022 by the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, and so far it has gained a lot of recognition and proven to be a valuable platform for students and early stage researchers to actively present their research topics, attend workshops and plenary lectures, and participate in networking activities. The previous BTechPro! edition gathered almost 100 participants from 14 countries. Information about the conference is available on www.btechpro.lv. The next BTechPro! conference will be held in 2026, and more details will be published soon. The organisers may be contacted by e-mail btechpro@kki.lv (for participants, sponsors, lecturers, partners).