Special Offer for BUP Member Universities

Dr. Natālija Cudečka-Puriņa, Liepaja University, is the winner of the BUP Award for best thesis in 2018 in the category Social Sciences and Humanities. Her thesis has the title Ensuring Municipal Waste Management Sustainability by Administration of Landfill Management Companies.

Dr. Dominika Sobotka, Gdansk University of Technology is the winner of the BUP Award 2019 for best thesis in 2018 in the category Natural Sciences, Technology and Engineering. The thesis is entitled: Investigation of the efficiency of nitrogen removal in a sequencing batch reactor with anammox granular biomass.

Welcome to a new issue of the BUP newsletter, filled with exciting news about our Programme!

For colleagues from the BUP Member Universities 20 places are available with a reduced fee of 150 Euro (ordinary fee 250 Euro) in the 5th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2020), 27-28 August 2020 in Visby, Sweden.

Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) offers both Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programmes taught in English. At SAMK one can study to become an expert in business, engineering, health care, maritime management and tourism.

Are you a student and want to spend some time abroad with the purpose of graduate and postgraduate studies, attend a summer course or do an internship? Are you a scientist and would like to conduct some research or be an expert?

Then come to Geocentrum, Villavägen 16 at Uppsala University 16:30 the 10th December 2019.

Welcome to the BUP Symposium 2020. This wil be:

• an opportunity to meet colleagues
• an arena where to discuss research
• an opportunity to disseminate and take part of new knowledge and 
• an opportunity to get published and spread research in the BUP

Åland University of Applied Sciences is a new member in the growing list of Baltic University Programme universities.

The department for Ecological Economics, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine, won a tender for a project on ecosystem services evaluation initiated by The Ukraine Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Enquire on possible partnership for the H2020 Call "Climate resilience of European coastal cities and settlements".

The World Sustainabilty Series is now seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified academics, to produce additional volumes, as guest editors.

Expressions of interest for new volumes of the World Sustainabilty Series are now being sought. Teams interested to submit ideas for consideration should produce a short description of the planned book, with the title and scope of the possible publication.

To highlight some of the research that is carried out in and on the Baltic Sea Region we publish The Research Notes Letter. 

The Academy of Public Administration at Södertörn University (Stockholm) together with the Swedish Institute offer a contract education course on Transnational Public Administration (7,5 credits) open to civil servants and civil society actors working with the public sector from the Baltic Sea region.

ReNEW Summer University for doctoral students within humanities, social sciences and arts Identity Politics: Comparative Perspectives on the Nordic Countries and East Central Europe University of Gdańsk and Södertörn University Stockholm, 9–18 June 2020.

IX International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists, Graduates, Master and PhD Students «Actual Environmental Problems» is organized by the BUP member university – International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University, and will be held  on 21-22 November 2019 in Minsk, Belarus.

As agreed in New York, the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme will organise the 3rd World Symposium on Climate Change Communication, to be held in Warsaw, Poland on 6th-7th July 2020.

The Baltic Research and Publications Programme (BUPRaP) is pleased to make a set of recently published papers available for wide use. They are: 

The IUSDRP are currently planning the "2nd Workshop on the Environmental Impact and Economic Sustainability of Nord Stream 2 and Other Sub-Marine Natural Gas Pipelines". The event will be held in, Lviv, Ukraine, on 13th-14th May 2020.  It is organised by the Ukraine National Forestry University and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme.

On behalf of the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia and Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland the organizers invite you to participate to the 24th international conference ENVIRO 2019 which will take place on in the Crocus recreation facility in Kezmarske Zl'aby, Slovakia, October 21, 2019 - October 23, 2019. ENVIRO international conference has a longterm tradition since 1995.

BUP Centre Directors Meeting
7 - 10 October
Kaliningrad, Russia

The VII International Baltic Maritime Forum (the Forum) will be held 7th - 10th October  2019 in Kaliningrad at the premises of the BUP member university Kaliningrad State Technical University.

The BUP has the possibility to cover the costs of stay (board and lodging) as well as participation fee for 8 scientist from BUP member universities. Travel costs are to be covered by the participants themselves.

The Finnish BUP web site has during the last few month undergone a substantial update.

• Are you interested in the future of the Baltic Sea?
• Is a sustainable society important to you?
• Do you think cooperation and collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region are essential?

The course focuses on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the learning methods in Higher Education. The participants will better integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals into their own practical teaching, courses and study programmes.

First Announcement

The Baltic University Programme's VII PhD Students Training, in Rogow, Poland, 24-28 November 2019. The objective is to give PhD students from the BUP network’s countries the possibility to meet and discuss scientific problems.

It is our pleasure to announce the BUP Mobility Research Grant 2019. The aim with the Mobility Research Grant is to develop and strengthen the cooperation among young researchers in the Baltic Sea Region.