At the last weekend Ventspils Univeristy College for 48 hours had turned into one of the most intense places in Latvia: shared work of more than 100 progressive minds, high-class mentors, development of perspective IT products, heavy load of wireless internet, big consumption of energy drinks, less sleep, and much fun.

Garage48 Ventspils gathered more than 100 people from 9 countries including such far states as the USA, Morocco, Egypt, Denmark, Sweden, and Slovenia.

At midnight, May 8, there was closing of submissions’ receipt for the youth competition “We own the sky 2013”. In total the competition received 30 very various, interesting, and creative works on subject “Latvia and Space in 2050”. By May 26 everyone can get acquainted with the competition’s works and vote for the favourite one in the site Mumspiederdebesis.lv. The winners – a boy and a girl – will go to an International space camp in the USA.


Tonight, on May 10, mentors, programmers, web designers, and entrepreneurs not only from Latvia but also from farther regions of the world gather in Block D of Ventspils University College. There are representatives from the USA, Estonia, Denmark, Pakistan, Egypt, Russia, Morocco, United Kingdom, Slovenia, and even India. Currently there are more than 80 participants registered for the famous IT event Garage48, and they are ready to turn their ideas in tangible and creative result in 48 hours.

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VACANCY: Work opportunities for two project managers interested in new technologies


Ventspils High Technology Park (the VHTP) is searching for two new colleagues to implement a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund, “Space Technologies and Services Cluster Development 2012-2015”:

  • Project (Cluster) manager 
  • Assistant to Project manager

Apply! We will wait your CV and cover letter!