University of Latvia's Senate-Approved AI Regulation for Academic Integrity

In 2024 the University of Latvia (Latvijas Universitate, LU), the country's largest and oldest university, published its first Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Study Process, endorsed by Rector Prof. Gundars Berzins and built on principles of safe, transparent, traceable and non-discriminatory AI use, including mandatory disclosure of AI use in coursework.

Following 2025-26 amendments to Latvia's national Law on Higher Education Institutions, the University's Senate approved a binding regulation on AI use in the study process, effective 16 March 2026 - reported as one of the first Senate-level AI regulations at any Latvian university. It is built around four principles (integrity, transparency, responsibility, data security), again makes AI-use disclosure mandatory, and frames AI as a permissible 'assistant' rather than a substitute for a student's own work. An updated companion guideline with worked examples accompanies it, alongside planned staff professional development on AI-informed teaching methods.

This is a governance and assessment-integrity measure, not an evaluated pedagogical intervention: no compliance-audit results, violation statistics or learning-outcome data have been published, and its real-world effectiveness once in force from March 2026 remains untested. Separately, Turiba University in Latvia has led a related cross-border AI-and-academic-integrity project with partners in Lithuania, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Croatia and Turkey, developing shared guidelines and free training materials for lecturers.