The Baltic University Programme
Latest News
- Support for young scholars 2022-01-21
- Call for application to host a BUP event 2022-01-20
- Announcing the BUP's Rector's conference 2022 2022-01-13
- New participating university: Zaporizhzhia National University 2022-01-13
- Christmas letter from the BUP Director 2021-12-21
- New Participating University: Moscow State University of Technology and Management 2021-12-21
- New Participating University: Pskov State University 2021-12-13
- BUP PhD thesis award winners 2021 2021-12-09
- BUP Newsletter #65 now published 2021-11-04
- New Participating University: Volga State University of Water Transport 2021-11-02
Upcoming Events
BUP's Master Thesis Training 2022
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Welcome to us
The Baltic University Programme (BUP) is a lively network of 95 universities located in 12 countries of the Baltic Sea Drainage Area. It started in 1991 as an enthusiastic effort to bridge the information divide left by the Iron Curtain and has been growing ever since. Thirty years of a fruitful cooperation later, the BUP and its mission can hardly be more topical: a sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region.
The BUP supports cooperation among researchers, teachers, and students from the Participating Universities, but extends as well to international offices and other university bodies. It also assists university leaderships in strategic issues related to internationalisation. As they share similar experiences and face similar challenges – global as well as specific to the region – the participants actively pool their knowledge and find innovative ways of promoting and implementing sustainability in their region.
The BUP supports research, cooperation and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in a Baltic Sea Region context, to aid the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Academia and research community constitute a very important group of stakeholders who can strongly support the achievement of the SDGs. Whether it is at the global, regional or local level, universities can contribute in multiple ways. This is through knowledge generation, innovations, data, technical analysis, and above all through training the next generation of students in building a sustainable future.