
Baltic Studies Centre (BSC) is a private non-profit research institute specialising in studies of sustainable rural and regional development, agro-food systems, farming, knowledge production and innovations.
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Baltic Studies Centre (BSC) is a private non-profit research organisation in the field of social sciences. Since establishment in 1991 BSC has carried out over 40 research projects including 15 EU Framework Programme projects. The areas of BSC expertise include sociology, sustainable agriculture, food supply chains, innovation networks, peri-urban agriculture, community development, public policy analysis, science and technology studies.
BSC undertakes action oriented research strategies and cooperates with producers’ organisations, policy makers, municipalities, SMEs, and other research and advisory organisations nationally and internationally. This helps to focus the research on the needs of practitioners and enhance practical innovations.
A video about BSC's dissemination, exploitation, communication and outreach activities can be found here.
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BSC is looking for a PhD student or a PhD degree holder to be employed in the EU Horizon Europe project "Pathways towards a fair, inclusive and innovative Data Economy for Sustainable Food Systems" (Data4Food2030).


BSC is looking for a PhD student or a PhD degree holder to be employed in the EU Horizon Europe project "Maximising the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalisation through conducive digital ECoSystems" (CODECS).


BSC starts a new Horizon Europe project on digitalisation – Data4Food2030 “Pathways towards a fair, inclusive and innovative Data Economy for Sustainable Food Systems”. The project kick-off meeting took place in Lisbon on 29th of September 2022.


On June 9-10, 2022, the CIRCLE project consortium met in Riga for the first face-to-face meeting to discuss the ongoing research and plan the next steps.


At the beginning of May, the In-Habit project held a meeting at the reopened renovated Āgenskalns market in Riga.


In cooperation with the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) the Baltic Studies Centre organises an ESRS2022 congress online satellite event "Rethinking circularity: an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral perspective on circular practices in bioeconomy” on June 21-22, 2022.
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BSC has published multiple academic articles during last decades. Click "Continue Reading" to get more information.


BSC has published a handbook [in Latvian] about directions for development and cases of sustainable food systems, digital solutions, and rural-urban interlinkages.


Many of our studies have been practically oriented and have had policy recommendations as one of outputs. Here are some of the policy recommendation documents.


In our studies we have been participating in a large number of research projects. Here are the links to most of research reports. Click "Read more" to continue.


Some of our studies have been reflected in mass media. Here are some sources where our studies have appeared.