10:00 Opening of the Conference                       Moderator: Joseph Horgan

Opening address by Vice-Rector AIGARS LAIZANS, Professor, LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Address by Jevone Nicholas, Counsellor, Embassy of Canada to Latvia

Address by Elodie Rambaud, Attaché for French language cooperation of the French institute, the Embassy of France

10.15 – 12.00 Plenary Session

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

URBAN AGRICULTURE - 21ST CENTURY'S LINKAGE BETWEEN HUMANS AND

NATURE / Madara Dobele, LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

TAXUS BACCATA, MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND USES DURING THE HISTORY / Pierre-Louis Langereau, ECOLE SUPÉRIEURE DE BOIS, France, Solveiga Luguza, LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

ALTERNATIVE METHODS TO DETERMINE ROOM REVERBERATION TIME / Dainis Krivens, Raitis Brencis, LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

WASTE VS. RESOURCE: A PERSPECTIVE OF VALORIZING BY- AND CO-PRODUCTS OF THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR / Kairit Peedimaa (Estonia), Tamara Tripská (Slovakia), LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES, Žanete Garanti, CITY UNITY COLLEGE NICOSIA, Cyprus

THE USE OF UAV TECHNOLOGY IN GEODESY / Danielius Ūksas, Simas Čėsna, Lina Kuklienė, Indrius Kuklys, KLAIPĖDA STATE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, Lithuania

LANGUAGE OF MUSIC FOR CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LATVIA AND JAPAN / Masaki Nakagawa, representative of UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA, Japan