Lightguide is one of the world's leading companies in the design and manufacture of silica optical fibres and fibre optic products. The light-conducting fibres produced here are used in the manufacture of minimally invasive medical instruments, as well as in the production of fibre bundles that are further used by the world's leading industrial and scientific equipment designers and manufacturers.
Regula Baltija Ltd. is a manufacturer of unique specific equipment and has been doing so since June 2005. The company's main activity is the production of equipment that enables the authentication of protected documents, the verification of identification cards, passports, banknotes, driving licences, etc. The company also develops software to work with the equipment produced and databases for entry documents.
Pulsar Optics Ltd. is part of Yukon Advanced Optics Worldwide, headquartered in the heart of Europe, Lithuania. Our history dates back to 1991. It was started by a group of friends who shared a passion for human empowerment. This group of enthusiasts assembled the first wooden observation tubes in the basement of a once unfinished residential building.
On 22 September 2026, a Steering Committee meeting of the Baltics Catching-up Regions Initiative (CuRI Baltics) was held at the Media Hall of Vienības nams in Daugavpils. The meeting brought together representatives of the Latgale Planning Region (LPR) and the Latgale Special Economic Zone (Latgale SEZ), experts from the World Bank and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), as well as representatives of national institutions, municipalities and other organisations involved in regional development.
Daugavpils University has licensed a new short-cycle professional higher education study programme, “Electronics”, expanding study opportunities in one of the most in-demand fields in today’s labour market. At the same time, the University has announced admissions to the new programme, with applications open from 10 August.
Web site was created within the Project “Entrepreneurship support measures in the Latgale Planning Region” of European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2021-2024 Programme “Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Cultural Cooperation”
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