Event of career education for pupils Shadow Day, organized by practical business educational association Junior Achievement Latvia (JA Latvia), was held in the EKA University.

Young people from Riga, Marupe, Valmiera and Dobele became shadows of the EKA University translators and interpreters. They participated in the discussion regarding following issues: Who is interpreter and who is translator? What does the profession of interpreter and translator consist of? What is daily routine of interpreter and translator? What interpreter and translator should know and be able to do? Pupils practiced written and oral translations, got an overview of professional translation program SDL Trados Studio and translation cloud platforms Memsource and Tilde Terminology.

The EKA University also invited to become shadows of network and computer systems administrator. Young people from Ogre and Riga used this opportunity. During the Shadow Day they discussed such issues as: Who is programmer and computer systems administrator? What should IT specialist know? What is daily routine of programmer and network administrator?

Pupils from Riga, Jelgava and Bauska applied to become shadows at study program Interior Design. MSc. proj. mgmt. Jurita Kruma, Director of study program Interior Design, and associate professors of the study program invited shadows to visit study exposition and participate in the discussion: Who is interior designer?

Young people also visited the EKA University′s library and met representatives of the EKA Student Council to discover students′ daily routine.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the organization process of the Shadow Day in the University of Economics and Culture:

Larisa Turusheva, director of study program "Translation and Interpreting" and associate professors Ilona Tiesniece, Gatis Dilans, and Zane Veidenberga!

Jurijs Radionovs, director of study program "Information technologies" and associate professor Andris Gabranovs!

Jurita Kruma, director of study program "Interior design" and associate professors Ieva Riekstina, Inese Reitale, Baiba Guste!