BUP conference for studentsAs part of the Baltic universities program and in cooperation with the University of Ostrava, it is possible to participate in a student conference in Ostrava.Conference for students of all levels who are interested in the topics:- Good Health and Well-being- Reduced inequalities- Sustainable cities and communities- Peace, Justice and Strong institutionsMore info: https://www.balticuniv.uu.se/activities/bup-student-conference-environment-and-well-being/The application must be submitted by 29 October 2023 https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/98325During the conference, all costs for food and accommodation are covered, travel expenses are not covered.
- Date: 22 November - 26 November
- Location: Łódź University of Technology
- Organiser: The Baltic University Programme (BUP)
- Contact person: Ireneusz Zbicinski
The BUP is pleased to announce the 10th BUP PhD Students Training which will take place 22-26 November at Łódź University of Technology in Poland. The training is a fantastic opportunity for PhD students from all over the Baltic Sea Region to come-together, network with each-other and become acquainted with other scholarly perspectives, in a stimulating academic environment.
The event will consist of a maximum of 30 students, that will be accompanied by an expert team of supervisors. The participants themselves will have different nationalities and academic backgrounds: engineering, social sciences, humanities, environmental sciences, and life sciences- all contributing to a stimulating interdisciplinary and intercultural atmosphere.
The training will be arranged in cooperation with the BUP National Centre in Poland and BUP's Associated Secretariat at Łódź University of Technology, coordinated by Prof. Ireneusz Zbicinski.
The program of the training includes: lectures, workshops, students’ presentations of PhD work, and individual consultancies of PhD work with international experts.
The conference is free of charge for PhD students at BUP participating universities. This means that the BUP will cover accommodation, food, and local transport. The PhD Students Training will only accept students who have completed at least the first year of their studies.
New BUP MOOC course- Sustainable Food Systems in the Baltic Sea Region
The BUP Coordinating Secretariat are happy to announce that we have published our second massive open online course (MOOC) on the BUP Course Platform. The course Sustainable Food Systems in the Baltic Sea Region is now available as a self-paced and free of charge course.
All courses on the BUP Course Platform are developed by colleagues at BUP participating universities who work in the BUP working model, which means to work in inter disciplinary and intercultural teams of co-operation. Colleagues contribute with their knowledge and experiences in developing the course materials. This way of working offers opportunities to learn from each other and different perspectives as well as different academic cultures.
Sustainable Food Systems in the Baltic Sea Region is an introductory course on the history, social, economic, and ecological aspects of food production in the Baltic Sea Region. The course also focuses on future challenges, such as food security and climate change.
The course consists of four parts:
- The history of agriculture in the Baltic Sea Region
- Ecological, economic and social aspects of food systems
- The challenges of sustainable food systems - now and tomorrow
- Examples from the region
The courses on the BUP Course Platform can be accessed independent of time and place, as full distance courses. Students and teachers are able to take a course whenever, as a self-paced learning course.
If you are interested in looking at or participating in a BUP MOOC-course visit the website for the BUP Course Platform.
There are further opportunities with the material developed for each MOOC course. For example, there is the option to develop more advanced courses, and to give student credits by adding material, assignments, seminars etc. These initiatives must then be taken at each BUP participating university. In this case we will also be able to promote virtual exchange co-operations between BUP participating universities when running credit bearing courses.
The date of the BUP Symposium 2021 is 19-20 October 2021.
The aim of the Symposium 2021 is to be a platform where the regional educational and research communities can get together and get to know each other better as colleagues at Participating Universities of The Baltic University Programme. It is an opportunity to disseminate recent research and learn about new knowledge. The Symposium is an arena where new discussions and collaborations can begin. We are challenging researchers from different disciplines with an interest in the Baltic Sea Region as an empirical field to discuss Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region. We focus on research having an inter-/multi disciplinary approach.
Theme sessions are divided into nine BUP Themes: Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Water Resources, Urban-Rural Development, Bio- and Circular Economy, Sustainable Tourism, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Sustainable Food Systems, which is coordinated by Radovan Kasarda, Professor, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia and Madeleine Granvik, Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden.
There is no fee, but you have to register at https://www.balticuniv.uu.se/activities/bup-symposium-2021/.
Hello,
The Centrum Balticum Foundation organises the 13th annual Baltic Sea Forum of Finland in Turku on the 15th of June. This year the forum deals with the geopolitics, the internal security and the forest industry.
You may find the program here:
https://www.centrumbalticum.org/en/news_room/events/baltic_sea_region_forum/programme
All the persons mentioned in the programme have confirmed their participation.
The participation is free of charge, but one needs to register in advance. If you wish to secure your place in the event, I advise you to register at your earliest convenience. The direct link to the registration form can be found below:
https://www.centrumbalticum.org/en/news_room/events/baltic_sea_region_forum/registration
In addition to the Baltic Sea Forum of Finland, the City of Turku organises the annual forum of the EU's Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region on 16-17th of June. You may obtain more information on this event from the link below:
http://www.annualforum2020.eu/en/annual-forum-2020
On the behalf of the Centrum Balticum Foundation, I welcome you to Turku,
Kari Liuhto
Professor, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland
Director, Pan-European Institute, http://www.utu.fi/pei
Director, Centrum Balticum, http://www.centrumbalticum.org/en
Personal research portal, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kari_Liuhto
Tel. +358-400-88 66 26
The Baltic University Programme’s PhD Award 2020
Awarding of the best dissertation that supports high-quality research in sustainable development.
Instructors, nominate your PhD. students!
Find important information HERE
Get your Baltic University Programme MOBILITY GRANT for young researchers!
The purpose of the mobility grant is the development and deepening of the cooperation between young researchers in the European Union in the Baltic region.
Grant will be used to support research activities of young researchers from universities in the Baltic region which would concentrate on the sustainable development
FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE.
The journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, Impact Factor 2.592) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Sustainable Development of Rural Areas and Agriculture". We would kindly invite you to contribute a paper to this special issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/sus_rural_agri
Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. Manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed.
The submission deadline is 31 May 2020. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted). For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions).
FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE
Dear all,
The Baltic University Programme's main aim is to support building strong regional educational and research communities. As a part of this, we are arranging a scientific symposium in Visby, 24-28 August, 2020. This is:
- an opportunity to meet colleagues
- an arena where to discuss research
- an opportunity to disseminate and take part of new knowledge
- an opportunity to get published and spread research in the BUP
Please visit our web site for the BUP SYMPOSIUM 2020: http://www.bupsymposium2020.se.
There are in total three parts of the BUP Symposium:
- Parallel BUP events Monday 24th August (free of charge for colleagues from BUP Member Universities)
- BUP Research Forum - Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Baltic Sea Region Tuesday 25th August - Wednesday 26th August (free of charge for colleagues from BUP Member Universities) This scientific conference will stress the following different themes that will have their own sessions at the conference: Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Sustainable Food Systems, Sustainable Water Resources, Urban-Rural Development, Sustainable Mobility, Circular Economy, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Sustainable Tourism and Sustainable Societies. You may submit an abstract for the theme sessions at the BUPSYMPOSIUM2020 via the web site. At this stage, we invite you to submit an abstract (http://www.bupsymposium2020.se/index.php/register-submit/call-for-abstracts-theme-sessions) for any of the nine theme sessions. In December we will open the registration for part one and two of the symposium.
- 5th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2020) Thursday 27th August - Friday 28th August
The symposium is entitled: "Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals", and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field. Colleagues from BUP Member Universities are welcome to apply to Lyudmyla Babak at the BUP Coordinating Secretariat, if you are interested in having one of the 20 places with reduced conference fee of Euro 150. The fee includes free lunches and coffee breaks on 27th-28th August 2020 and a free on-line copy of the publication „Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”, to be made available to the authors who contributed to it.
We hope to see you in Visby;
The BUP Coordinating Secretariat, Uppsala University
First Volume of the "Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development"
The Baltic University Programme, the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the Tatra National Park have a great pleasure to welcome to the 2nd International Hydrological Workshop Sustainable water resources management in high mountains in the Baltic Sea Region.
Date: 10 - 13 June 2019
Place: Zakopane, Poland (Polish Tatra Mountains)
Participation in the workshop gives an opportunity to get 3 ECTS and diploma signed by three partners: the Director of the Baltic University Programme, the Rector of the Jagiellonian University, and the Director of the Tatra National Park.
You can find more information at the workshop website and attached file.
In case of further questions, please contact Joanna Pociask-Karteczka (joanna.pociask karteczka@uj.edu.pl, Jagiellonian University) or Lyudmyla Babak (lyudmyla.babak@balticuniv.uu.se, the Baltic University Programme).
More information HERE
Universities and Climate Change: Understanding and managing the extreme impacts of climate change, Warsaw, Poland 4th - 5th July 2019 (Deadline 20.12.2018)
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research on Climate Change and mitigation of its impacts. The conference is organized by the University of Warsaw, Poland and HAW Hamburg, Germany under the auspices of the International Climate Change Information and Research Program (ICCIRP). The outcome of the conference will be a reviewed publication in the Springer Publishing House, part of a series of publications on climate change.
DEADLINE 10.12.2018
Invitation to participate in the EduBUP project, which focuses on the personal development of university teachers in the programme countries of the BUP. A series of workshops is aimed on transforming education in the sense of sustainable principles and implementing education for sustainable development by changing curricula and teaching and learning methods. The project focuses on pedagogical principles and their integration into the teaching process.
For SUA teachers, accommodation and meals are fully covered by BUP Centre.
Events
BUP Symposium
7-8 November 2023
The Symposium is a platform where the regional educational and research communities can get together and get to know their colleagues at BUP participating universities. The Symposium is an arena where you can disseminate recent research and where new discussions and collaborations can begin. We are challenging researchers from different disciplines with an interest in the Baltic Sea Region as an empirical field to discuss Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region. We focus on research having an inter-/multi disciplinary approach.
The last day to register to present at the Symposium is 31 July 2023.
Register to present at the BUP Symposium 2023.
Read more about the BUP Symposium 2023.
BUP Science and Sail 2023
The Baltic University Programme (BUP) and Klaipėda University, proudly present BUP Science and Sail 2023, a summer school with the focus on the Baltic Sea Environment.
The summer school will take place between 3-9 July in Klaipėda, Lithuania and the waters of the Baltic Sea. Accepted students will be studying the sensitive Baltic Sea Environment, both on land and at sea with leading experts from across the region.
Parts of the summer school will take place onboard Klaipėda University’s sailing vessel Brabander, sailing the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea, while conducting tests and collecting samples. Participants will also study the unique coastal environment of the Curonian Spit and surrounding areas, learning about the impacts of and solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss.
This summer school is free of charge and applications are open for students studying at either bachelor or master level at The Baltic University Programme’s participating universities. In total 36 students from BUP participating universities will be selected to take part. We accept students from all kinds of study programs and no pre-knowledge of the Baltic Sea Environment is required.
All the details and registration instructions here:
The BUP Student Conference 2023
This year, the conference will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, during 9-12 May, and the topic is Sustainable production and consumption: A circular economy perspective. The four-day conference is free of charge and applications are open for students at BUP participating universities. A maximum of 80 students will be selected to take part.
The first full day of the conference is held together with the International Young Researchers Conference hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. This means that the BUP Student Conference will focus on the development of young researchers’ competences in connection to sustainable industrial development, sustainable production, and sustainable consumption.
During the conference, there will also be opportunities to get to know students from universities all over the Baltic Sea Region, take part in a guided tour of Kaunas, and participate in the Students' Parliament where you elect a new Student Representative for the BUP International Board.
All accepted students will get the opportunity to submit articles for presenting papers or posters during the conference. The submitted papers are subject to review and decision on their publication by the editorial board of the publication. Papers in English will be published online in the conference Book of Abstracts called Industrial Engineering 2023 – Circular Economy: production and consumption.
The last application day is 2 April 2023.
Apply to take part in the BUP Student Conference 2023.
Read more about the BUP Student Conference 2023.
Marketing material for the BUP Student Conference 2023.
October 31rst-November 3rd, 2019, Tallinn, Estonia
Sustainable Cities in the Nordic-Baltic Region is an intensive four-day course and competition focusing on multidisciplinary and practical urban planning and collaboration. The course brings together students, teachers, professors, practitioners and other leading experts from the Nordic-Baltic countries to share ideas and work together on a real-life planning case, taking on the challenge of developing sustainable cities.
On 03rd – 07th September 2019, a student conference (summer course) was held in Lviv (Ukraine) on Sustainable Innovation in the Circular Economy.
The Summer Course is an initiative of the German offices of the Baltic University Programme in Hamburg and Zittau (Germany), in cooperation with the Ukrainian National Forestry University (UNFU), as part of the Baltic University Programme (BUP).
It is organized in cooperation with the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and the EU Projects “FORCE – Cities Cooperating for Circular Economy” and “LARS – Learning among Regions about Smart Specialisation”. The summer course is meant to acquaint delegates from various countries about matters related to circular economy for catalysing sustainable development in the Baltic, as well as foster international and multicultural learning.
Two students from the FESRD were selected for the conference: Nikoleta Košecová and Dušan Bálint.
On the first day of the conference, all students were registered, followed by accommodation and dinner. The following day was full of interesting lectures about the role of environmental, technological, economic and social innovations for sustainable development with examples from Germany and Ukraine.
The lectures were followed by a walking tour of the city, where we had a guide tour of the history of the city. On the third day, the academic sessions were supplemented by field visist to companies already working with circular economy principles and “Zero Waste” initiatives. Participants could choose an excursion to three different companies that reprocessed the waste of another company than the main source. Both Dušan and I chose Carlsberg, where they told us about the reuse of water, packaging materials and carbon dioxide.
The second excursion took place in the furniture manufacturing company. The owner told us a brief history of the company. This was followed by a tour of the business where we could see how it worked.
On the last day of the conference lectures and "games" were prepared, where we were to work together as a team and solve various problems related to the circular economy.
Sustainability Applied in International Learning and Teaching (SAIL), 26 June - 3 July 2019, Szczecin, Poland - Aalborg, Denmark
The SAIL for Teachers was carried out on board the sailing ship "Fryderyk Chopin" during one week sailing, starting from Szczecin, Poland, ending in Aalborg, Denmark. The aim was to enhance understanding of sustainability issues in global and local perspective, train teaching and learning methods, give skills for working in multidisciplinary international environment and support teambuilding capabilities for university teachers.
The academic programme included lectures, workshops, presentations and discussions on sustainability issues on thematic areas. The course gave an overview of the current situation concerning some of the most important issues of education for sustainable development in higher education, learning and teaching methods. The participants contributed with their own expertise and each participant presented their contribution as a part of a thematic working group, resulting in live discussions on the topics (such as sustainable development goals, biodiversity, forest and water management, biological science statistics and big data, etc.). The participants represented different disciplines supporting multi- and interdisciplinary approach. International working groups and three sailing group watches, promoted multicultural teambuilding, thus directly participating in the operation of the ship itself, so that they can directly experience its management - from sail setting, steering to sustainable cooking in the kitchen or boat cleaning.
Representatives from 20 universities from 9 countries in the Baltic region participated together. The Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra was represented by prof. Ing. Radovan Kasarda, PhD. (FAFR), doc. Ing. Radoslav Židek, PhD. (FBFS) and Ing. Kristina Candráková, PhD. (FHLE).
Hydrological workshop organized by Baltic University Program was carried out in Zakopane (Poland) between dates 10. – 13.6.2019. The main goal of the workshop titled "Sustainable water resources management in high mountain in the Baltic Sea Region" was to earn relevant information about a new monitoring and sampling techniques for analyzing hydrological processes and organization hydrological monitoring network for different kind of purpose in the mountain region. Theoretical part consisted of lectures on water resources management and their sustainability. Practical part took place in Tatra National Park, where the water flow by different methods was measured by taking samples of water. Certificated drone flier showed us possibilities for exploration of the Earth by the drone. A workshop was concluded with a discussion on the possibility of designing measures to improve a water quality.
Participant students were from Belarus, Georgia, Turkish, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Luxemburg, Russia and Poland. Slovak University of Agriculture was represented by PhD. students from FHLE (Lucia Toková, Martin Manina, Vladimír Kišš) and one student from FESRD (Marina Valenčíkova).
During 25 - 28 April 2019, student conference was organized by the Baltic University Program with the support of Uppsala University in Sweden on the topic "Sustainable consumption and circular economy". It was attended by five students who represented SUA in Nitra, namely: Simona Halásová, Barbora Malecká, Adam Šimurda, Veronika Zábojníková from the Faculty of Economics and Management and Bc. Dušan Bálint from the Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development. The conference venue was at the wonderful Four Lakes resort Nelijarve in Aegviidu, Estonia.
The conference took the form of lectures on sustainable development, the circular economy and how to combine both strategies for a better future in the world. The program included various workshops during which we had to apply the acquired knowledge to practice. One of them was a workshop called "ImPACT" - the main task was to reduce emissions through calculations, in which we had to take into account the consequences on population incomes or technological advances. Another interesting workshop was entitled "In the Loop game", which consisted of a social game where we had to use the information gained from lectures on various strategies to reach the goal.
The conference also included a student parliament. The purpose was to choose a new student representative to represent us for two years at all BUP events and conferences and to participate in international congresses focused on sustainable consumption and development. The election took the form of a secret ballot of the participating students, which could choose from three candidates.
Students worked in mixed international teams and had the opportunity to meet people from different countries of the Baltic region. Evening activities, such as the BUP Olympics - sports games, cultural evening, where students had the opportunity to taste sweets and snakcs from 12 countries, as well as sauna and bathing in the lake, contributed to better cooperation and understanding between participants.
The Baltic University Program is a great opportunity to expand your knowledge of sustainable development and environmental protection, getting to know new people and different countries. The program offers several opportunities not only for students but also for teachers or PhD. students. Every half-year, the presidium will go to another country and we are very pleased that Slovakia will take over this position in the first half of 2020 and we firmly believe that the next BUP student conference will take place in Nitra.
Authors: Simona Halásová, Veronika Zábojníková
The meeting of the heads of BUP National Centers took place at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and was aimed at discussing the activities, actions and goals of the Baltic University network, which activities are mainly implemented through national centers in the Baltic countries and in the EU countries.
