Baltic University Programme - A regional university network

 For 6 months Aira Chmieliauskaite from Lithuania will be working at the  Baltic University Programme Secretariat here at Uppsala University. 

 Contact Information:

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 Phone: +46-18-4716853

 Fax: +46-18-4711789

The course SAIL 2010 (Sustainbility Applied in International Learning) will this year take place on board the Bulgarian sail training ship STV Kaliakra during 28 August - 16 September. You may follow the ships position on the Marine Traffic website, click on the link Current Vessel's Track to find her current position.

For more information on the course see the SAIL 2010 web pages.

Environmental Human Rights: A Present and Future Challenge for Youth Work

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the Council of Europe’s (COE) Directorate of Youth and Sport, and the International Workcamp Organization (IWO) Korea are pleased to announce an Asia-Europe Training Course on Environmental Human Rights, on 9-15 November 2010 in Seoul, Korea. Applications are now open for participation.

First announcement of the BUP workshop
Energy futures - local solutions for the Baltic Sea Region
17 -21 October 2010
Uppsala, Sweden

Energy production and energy use is one of the critical issues that must be solved for a sustainable future. It is also one of the keys for adaptation and mitigation of climate change. This workshop will focus on energy mostly in the local context and how to achieve a transition to a fossil fuel free energy system. We will review the entire spectrum of energy sources and look at how to improve energy efficiency. The workshop will rely on expertise from Uppsala University, one of the European Centres for Research on renewable energy systems, from Uppsala municipality and county, and the BUP network.

The first issue of EcoRegion Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism was published early this year. Now the Spatial Planning sector is preparing the next issue on Territorial Cohesion.

EcoRegion Perspectives shall include articles on EU and BSR policy level, and also regional and local level as well as sector contributions: this means that half of the content is reserved to EcoRegion project partners ( = regions and sectors).

Thus we would very much welcome your contribution in form of a 1 page article by the deadline of 30th September.

Summer 2010 will be marked with a unique event for our region – international youth campsite “Baltic Artek” located on the Baltic Sea shore.

The campsite is established by the Government of the Kaliningrad region, Ministry of Education, and Department for Youth Affairs.

The “Baltic Artek” campsite includes five thematic sessions, a session “Future Politicians” being one of them. This session takes place from July 28 till August 3 and will unite more than 250 young leaders and activists of different youth public associations (aged 18 - 30): members of Youth Governments, Youth Parliaments, Youth Administrations, the CIS and EU youth public and political associations.

For more information please see the Invitation and the Programme (word-files) for the summer camp.