BUP International Teachers’ conference on
Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, and the Baltic Sea Region
2 - 6 September 2011
Gniezno, Poland
This conference will be a common undertaking of the BUP secretariat, Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense, filial of Adam Mickiewicz University, in Gniezno, Poland, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and University of Economics in Poznan.
All BUP teachers of the Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, or any other courses related to the topic are welcome to apply for participation. At the conference we will have the possibility to welcome 45 of teachers which means that every country in the network may send about 4 teachers.
Last application date: 1st August, 2011, for details see below.
Short background information and introduction to the conference:
The Baltic University Programme courses Peoples of the Baltic and Regional Development and the Baltic Sea Region are undergraduate courses about the Baltic Sea region and its societies under eight headings:
- A. History, Culture, Languages
- B. Democracy, Multicultural societies, Peace and Security
- C. Social conditions, Economic development.
The courses deal mostly with the conditions in the region after the systems change in 1989-91. The aim of the courses is to get to know the Baltic Sea region and to give the students tools for dealing with problems of - sustainable - development in the Baltic Sea region, as well as a general understanding of the problems of regional development.
The development in the societies around the Baltic Sea has been intensive in the past years. In this conference we aim to discuss this development and find ways for updating and renewal of our courses and course materials. Participants will have possibility to share their experience, develop the teaching’s methods, and discuss new projects that will hopefully lead to common applications for funding, and plan for further cooperation and exchange of students groups.
We will organize workshops and invite specialists relevant to topics. The conference leaders are Dr Tomasz Branka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (political science), Assoc. Prof. Arnold Bernaciak, University of Economics (economics), Poznan and Professor Lars Rydén Uppsala University (environmental science). A number of topics for which the development the last few years have been particularly interesting for the courses will be treated by invited specialists. They are all based on the general outline of the textbook “The Baltic Sea Region – Cultures, Politics, Societies” (produced in 2002, with contributions from over 60 authors in 8 countries and Professor W. Maciejewski as editor).
- Culture: The role of the church and Islam in modern BSR societies.
- Society: Urbanization and urban sprawl. Demographic development.
- Gender: The role of women
- Politics: Democratization
- Economy: Growth vs. development
- Understanding sustainable development
- The BSR region: Transboundary cooperation. The European Union BSR strategy
Cost
Baltic University Programme will cover all expenses for the participants in connection with the conference (accommodation, full board and bus travel Poznan-Gniezno-Poznan included) with the Swedish Institute grant. There will be as well possibility to get a travel grant for a limited number of teachers – individual applications are requested. Please send them to
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Time
The conference will start on Friday, 2nd of September at 17.00 and end on Tuesday, 6th of September at 11.00. All participating teachers are kindly asked to take part in the entire training.
Arrival
A bus will be waiting for all teachers in Poznan outside the main building of Adam Mickiewicz University - Collegium Minus (ul. Wieniawskiego 1) on 2nd of September at 15.00. The bus will take all participants to Gniezno, where we expect to start the program at 17.00.
Please remember to let us know your arrival time.
Departure
On Tuesday 6th of September, we will leave Gniezno by bus at 10.00 and we will be in Poznan at about 11.00 so please book your travel back home starting from Poznan at no earlier then 11.00.
Applications
Please send your application including a letter of motivation to the BUP secretariat /
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no later then 1 of August. All applying teachers are requested to register at the BUP Resource Database - the place to find teaching and project partners.
Preliminary program of the conference will be published later.
We thank Dr Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake, Dr Tomasz Branka and Assoc. Prof. Arnold Bernaciak and their universities for all help and support with organization and running of the conference :-)))
In addition the Polish BUP centre offers as usual their help and support with practical matters, visas invitations included - we thank them very much for theirs continuous cooperation and dedicated work :-)
We do hope that the topic and the program will be of interest for many of our teachers - all BUP’s teachers of the Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, or any other courses related to the topic are welcome to apply for participation.
With best, sunny wishes to all of you - Maria :-))))))
