Establishment of

Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence

5th Teaming Club Conference 2026

Event date: 23-09-2026

23–25 September 2026 | Riga, Latvia

Join Teaming Centres and key stakeholders from across Europe for three days of inspiring talks, networking, and partnership building. Registration opens on 5th of June 2026. More details coming soon.

Connect. Collaborate. Create Impact.

Conference Organizing Committee:

  • Janis Locs
  • Arita Dubnika
  • Jana Vecstaudza
  • Lasma Malniece
Hosted by Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence, the 2nd Genereation Teaming project

Contact us: bbcentre@rtu.lv

Register for the 5th Teaming Club Conference here:

https://forms.gle/jwEUP3NNoxoawAS6A


Participants are invited to submit a short profile of their Centre using the attached simple PPT template (Teaming_Profile_Template_TCC2026.pptx). The completed profiles will be made publicly available on the conference website and will serve as an information source to help participants identify relevant contacts and potential cooperation opportunities with other Teaming Centres, Latvian scientific institutions, and industry representatives.

The networking activity is planned as a participant-driven post-conference activity on 27 September 2025 after 14:00. Participants are encouraged to review the published profiles in advance and contact the organisations of their interest directly to arrange individual meetings or follow-up discussions.

Getting to Riga and Kipsala

We are delighted to welcome you to Riga, the vibrant capital of Latvia and host city of the 5th Teaming Club Conference 2026.

The conference will take place at RTU Campus Domus Auditorialis - Zunda krastmala 8, Riga, Latvia. 

To help you plan your journey, we have prepared two practical guides:


Please refer to the documents attached for all travel and venue information. We look forward to welcoming you to Riga!

Participants from Teaming centres are invited to submit a short profile of their Centre using the attached simple PPT template (Teaming_Profile_Template_TCC2026.pptx) when registering for the conference. The completed profiles will be made publicly available here and will serve as an information source to help participants identify relevant contacts and potential cooperation opportunities with other Teaming Centres, Latvian scientific institutions, and industry representatives.

The networking activity is planned as a participant-driven post-conference activity on 27 September 2025 after 14:00. Participants are encouraged to review the published profiles in advance and contact the organisations of their interest directly to arrange individual meetings or follow-up discussions.

Short profiles of Teaming Centres

Short profiles of Industry of Latvia

Short profiles of Research Institutions of Latvia

BBCE project´s main objective is to establish a joint Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence for advanced biomaterials development based on the long-term strategic cooperation between AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland (ARI) and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (FAU) on the one hand and RTU RBIDC, LIOS, RSU and RSU IS on the other hand.



This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857287