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Ventspils Library |
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Ventspils Library stores up, systemizes, catalogues and preserves printed works, electronic editions, manuscripts and other documents, as well as ensures information accessibility to residents.
City Library and Children's Library
Address: 2 Akmeņu Street
Phones:
Director +371 63623598
Deputy Director+371 63623231
Fiction and literary theory +371 63623278
Humanities and physical sciences +371 63627362
Music and art 63627362
Children's Library +371 363627361
Open Mon - FRI from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm; Sat from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Closed Sunday and the last Thursday of each month |
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Culture Centre |
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Ensures the development of culture life in the city, as well as the development of creative art activities. |
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Education Board |
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Plans the development of education in the city. Ensures the work of institutions subordinated to the Education Board. |
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Municipal Administration |
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Performs economic activity to maintain, repair and to build municipal objects of Ventspils city. |
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Municipal Police |
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Ensures order in the city, performs functions of rescue service on Ventspils beach during the swimming season, provides assistance to Ventspils residents and guests, controls the enforcement of decisions and regulations of Ventspils City Council. |
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Social Care Board |
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Supports residents of moderate means and socially less protected residents. Deals with social problems of residents, provides financial support in crisis situations.
Structural units of Social Care Board:
- Support fund for projects of public organizations;
- Custody Court;
- Free night lodging centre for teenagers;
- Rest house and orphan house "Selga";
- Social Assistance Department;
The composition of the Custody Court:
The members of the Custody Court
- Gunta Kolāte
- Aigula Bartmane
- Mudīte Lakševica
- Signe Jēkabsone
Office manager
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Sports Board |
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The tasks of the Sports Board is to facilitate the healthy way of living of Ventspils residents, to work out city's sports development strategy, to ensure accessability to city's sports bases paying special attention to sport activities for children and youth. |
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Ventspils Digital Centre |
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Ventspils municipal enterprise "Ventspils Digital Centre" is a public institution of Ventspils City Council the aims of which are:
- to facilitate the involvement of Ventspils city municipality, residents and entrepreneurs in the information society and e-government;
- to work actively in building up the information society and in implementation of e-solutions on local, regional, national and international level;
- to form, to support and to develop the infrastructure of information and communication technologies.
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Ventspils Free Port Authority |
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Ventspils Free Port Authority is the executive body responsible for the following functions:
- maintenance of navigation channels;
- navigation safety;
- maintenance of hydro technical facilities;
- collection of port dues;
- control of compliance with port and environmental rules;
- issuing of free zone licenses.
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Ventspils Museum |
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Ventspils Museum is studying and summarizing history of Ventspils city and region, forms chronicle of Ventspils city, complements museums's stocks, organizes museum's scientific work, including archeological and other expeditions, conferences, deals with publicity. |
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Ventspils University College |
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Ventspils University College (VUC) was established in 1997 with the aim to provide a possibility of preparing a sufficient number of highly skilled specialists for the city of Ventspils and the whole region of Courland.
VUC provides academic and professional education in the following study directions – Economic and Management Studies and Translation Studies. Duration of studies in both study programmes is four academic years or eight terms.
Recently opened program of professional IT studies provides study specialisation opportunities in Data Base Administration and Network Administration.
The academic year 2001/ 2002 came with opening of a new two–year postgraduate study programme – Master of Business Administration and in the academic year 2004/2005, the Master's programme in Translation Studies was opened. |
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