BUP Newsletter no. 60

We have the pleasure to welcome a new university in the network of BUP member universities: Belarusian State Agricultural Academy.

Welcome to issue no. 61 of the BUP Newsletter.

CLIMATE2020
Worldwide online climate conference from 23rd to 30th March 2020 is now in full swing.

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Invitations for new contributing authors from the Baltic.

During March 5-6, the second and last workshop of the course Education for Sustainable Development for Higher Education was held in Lviv, Ukraine. 

We have the pleasure to welcome two new universities in the network of BUP member universities: Klaipeda University and Baranovichi State University.

Summer Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) Baltic Sea Region and Eastern partnership countries.

Deadline: 11 March 2020.

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.

Call for PhD candidates´projects for hosting internships for Bachelor/Master students is open 1 – 8 March 2020!

Themes: Life Sciences, Photon&Neutron Science and Welfare State. The fields are not defined more exactly, so they can be interpreted broadly.

Invitation for Expressions of Interest to Host the 3rd World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research, April 2021

The "World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research" series started in 2017, based on the perceived need to explore and present concrete case studies which illustrate how Sustainability Science and Research can help to achieve the many goals listed in the document "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".

An updated version of the map of the BUP network of universities is now available for download.

The Baltic University Programme's PhD Award, is given to a PhD work that is judged to be the most qualified according to the following criteria: inter-/multi disciplinary approach, novelty, innovation, and value for promoting sustainable development.

Oral presentations given at
The Baltic University Programme
VII PhD Students Training
Rogow, Poland
24th - 28th November 2019

The Baltic University Programme’s Mobility Grant for Young Researchers aims to develop and strengthen the cooperation among young researchers in the Baltic Sea region.

Deadline for applications: 20 March 2020.

The growth of digital technologies in all areas of educational, scientific and industrial activities should be accompanied by appropriate innovations in personnel training, taking into account the rapidly changing situations in both the economy and the financial sector on a global scale. The sustainability of development on a global, national and regional scale largely depends on the balance between social, economic and environmental processes. This is especially true in countries with different objectives for the near- and medium-term development.

BARI Mobility Programme is directed to three fields: Life Sciences, Photon/Neutron Science and Welfare State. The fields are not defined more exactly, so they can be interpreted broadly.

The Faculty of E-Learning Technologies and Humanities of Riga Technical University is organizing the 4th international scientific conference “Meaning in Translation: Illusion of Precision” that will be held in Riga from 27 to 29 May 2020. This time the focus is on Translation Studies in the Era of Digital Humanities. 

Invitation and call for papers to the conference "Impact of private & public law on international business  activity" to be held in Gdansk, on April 17th, 2020.

Open Access Journal "Sustainability"- Special Issue "Environmental Education for Sustainability" 

POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER 2021.

Are you a young researcher at the beginning of your academic career and focus on sustainable energy or are you doing your PhD on this topic? Are you located at a higher education institution in the Baltic Sea region? Do you have a solid scientific expertise / background but would like to enhance your teaching skills because you have to fulfill a teaching obligation?

For CLIMATE 2020, the 7th on-line climate conference to be held from 23th-30th March, 2020 we are looking for expert reviewers. 

Slovakia will hold the BUP Presidency the first half year of 2020.

Dr. Mariia Ruda, Department of Environmental Safety and Environmental Protection (ESEP), at the V. Chornovil Institute for Sustainable Development, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, is the winner of the BUP Mobility Research Grant 2019.

BARI – The Baltic Science Network Mobility Programme for research internships in summer 2020 in the fields of Life Sciences, Photon & Neutron Science and Welfare State in the Baltic Sea Region will start soon.

This issue focuses entirely on the BUP Symposium 2020, titled Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Baltic Sea Region.

The symposium is held on Campus Gotland, Uppsala University, Visby, between August 24 - 28, 2020.
 

DEAR COLLEAGUES!

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference

“MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN HEALTH AND THEIR MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION”

Place: Ukraine, Ternopil
Time: 9-11 April, 2020

​The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Develoopment Goals, currently being produced, is the world´s largest editorial project ever undertaken. It is to be completed by 2021. In the framework of COP 25 in Madrid, the volume on SDG 13 "Climate Action" has been launched.

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.