Trying out new ways to economic success, experimenting, and daring does not depend on the size of a city! In Valmiera, innovations are systematically sought after and promoted to achieve economic goals.

Mefat Shabani from Albania is the first student who has applied and has been granted the scholarship offered by Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences. Mefat Shabani is the first-year student of the master's degree study program "Cybersecurity Engineering". He has previously studied at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences as an Erasmus+ exchange student during the academic year 2018/2019.

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) is a state higher education institution, which offers 16 study programmes at the Faculty of Society and Science and the Faculty of Engineering.  ViA offers high-quality and flexible study programmes that successfully balance theory and practice. These are adapted to the current needs of society and changes in the labour market. The quality of the studies is ensured by experienced and professional teaching staff, advanced study methods, as well as by students who know what they want to achieve and how to succeed.

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) is one of the four higher education institutions in Latvia that has got involved in the Erasmus + programme initiative “European Universities”. These transnational alliances are part of the European Union's (EU) flagship initiative to create and expand the European Education Area. European Universities are the universities of the future, promoting European values and identity, and revolutionising the quality and competitiveness of European higher education.

19 foreign students from partner universities in five countries – France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Armenia will start the new study year at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) together with the new and current  students of the university.

Taking into account the political situation in Belarus and the need to provide assistance to the Belarusian society, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) will finance the studies of ten Belarusian citizens at the university from its own budget.