Short CV

Address: Petersalas street 2 - 4, LV - 1045, Riga, Latvia Telephone: +371 9465253 Fax: +371 7089572 e-mail: ibakane@cs.rtu.lv Nationality:Latvian Date of birth:25.10.1977.

Education and training

Dates (from - to): September 1, 2000 to June 2002 Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Latvia, faculty of Public administration Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Public administration, political, economical and law negotiation skills Title of qualification awarded: Master degree of Social Science in Public administration, Nr.012661 Dates (from - to): September 1, 1996 to June 2000 Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Latvia, faculty of Politic Science Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: International relationship, local politics, policy analysis, European institutions negotiation skills Title of qualification awarded: Bachelor of Social Science in Politics Science, Nr.009870 Dates (from - to) September 1, 1993 to June, 1996 Name and type of organization providing education and training: Gymnasium of Gulbene. Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Secondary study Title of qualification awarded: Diploma of Gymnasium Dates (from - to) September 1, 1984 to June, 1993 Name and type of organization providing education and training: Secondary school of Gulbene Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Secondary study Title of qualification awarded: Diploma of secondary school

Work experience

Dates (from - to) 01.09.2004. - to present Name and address of employer: Riga Technical university, Kalkus street 1, LV 1658, Riga, Latvia Type of business or sector: High education and Science. Occupation or position held: Project Manager Main activities and responsibilities: At the moment I'm working with EK IST 6th Framework programme project IST4Balt (Information Society Technologies Promotion in Baltic Status) development in Latvia. Main activities and responsibilities are connected with administration of the project team, collaboration with other project partners in Lithuania and Estonia as well as coordinators in France; follow up of the project budget and full filling the project tasks. Main tasks in the project are: Maintain the database of contacts concerning the IST and FP6 activities in Latvia and EU legal bodies interested in collaboration with the Baltic States. Organise contacts with Local authorities (Ministries, City councils, etc.), representatives of EU in Latvia, Enterprises, Universities, SME' etc. Create an Open platform for software and services. Create Information and dissemination centre. Preparation of different training courses. Preparation of the 3 Workshops. Dates (from - to): 01.09.2004. - to present Name and address of employer: Organisation of people with disabilities and their friends "APEIRONS", Valdemara street 36, LV 1011, Riga, Latvia Type of business or sector: NGO, Social sector. Occupation or position held: Project Manager Main activities and responsibilities: I am involved in several projects which are connected with integration of people with different kind of disabilities in labour market and society. Main activities and responsibilities are coordination of project activities, implementation of the projects goals, support groups, evaluation, follow up etc. Dates (from - to): 01/12/2003 - 31.08.2004. Name and address of employer: NGO "Junior Achievement - Latvia" Terbatas street 88 -13, Riga, Latvia Type of business or sector: Business education and activities. Occupation or position held: Project Manager Main activities and responsibilities: I was working on European Union funded project "Participation - Key for Your Future". The main goal of the project is to promote intercultural contacts and tolerance among the Latvian youth and youth of minorities, which are living in Latvia. The main activities of the project manager were organising of: different seminars, press conferences, discussions in the project web site, radio broadcasts, surveys, final conference for 600 project participants from biggest multi-national cities in Latvia, as well as other activities as Project management, coordination, evaluation, team building, projects finances etc. 03/01/2002- 04.01.2004. Non profit public foundation Open Latvia, Zakusalas krastmala 3, Riga, Latvia IT applications, IT development Project Manager The main activities in this position were THINK Baltic Extension (EC IST 5th framework programme, IST - 2001 - 32788) project coordination in Latvia and local coordination for Baltic States as well as cooperation of TELEBALT and E3WORK projects (IST). I was in charge also of finding partners in Baltic countries and also in Europe for cooperation in projects, with the objective to disseminate information based on IST programme (EC), distance work and social integration using new ways of working. In frame of TELEBALT project I took part in 2 workshop organisation in Latvia, http://www.openlatvia.lv/telebalt/?cat=wks0 01.09.2000. - 31.06.2001. University of Latvia, Raina bulv. 19, Riga, Latvia Research, Science, Education Assistant of Professor F.Rajevska The main activities in this position were participation in training aids development as well as participation in document preparation for different projects.

Languages

Mother tongue: Latvian   English Russian German Reading skills Excellent Excellent Good Writing skills Good Good Basic Verbal skills Excellent Excellent Basic