First announcement of the 2012 BUP Students’ Spring Conference
Towards Sustainable Consumption
The Baltic University Programme will arrange this years students conference in Rogów, Poland on April 18 - 22 (Wednesday-Sunday).
We have the pleasure to wish all students who have studied any of our courses, as well as students coming from the universities that have signed the inter-university agreement with the Baltic University Programme, welcome to apply for participation in the conference.
Shortly we will publish the preliminary programme of the conference and other information.
Theme of the conference 2012: Towards Sustainable Consumption
Consumers’ behaviour is key to the impact that society has on the environment. The actions that people take and choices they make – to consume certain products and services or to live in certain ways rather than others – all have direct and indirect impacts on the environment, as well as on personal (and collective) well-being. This is why the topic of ‘sustainable consumption’ has become a central focus for national and international policy.
Sustainability of consumption is considered in economic, environmental and social terms. Sustainable consumption policies increasingly take into account the social and ethical dimensions of products and how they are produced as well as their ecological impacts. Promoting sustainable consumption and production are important aspects of sustainable development, which depends on achieving long-term economic growth that is consistent with environmental and social needs. Promoting sustainable consumption is equally important to limit negative environmental and social externalities as well as to provide markets for sustainable products.
In this year’s Baltic University Student Conference, Sustainable Consumption will be in focus.
Why do we consume in the ways that we do?
What factors shape and constrain our choices and actions?
Why (and when) do people behave in pro-environmental or pro-social ways?
How can we encourage, motivate and facilitate more sustainable attitudes, behaviours and lifestyles?
Place:
The conference will take place in Rogów, a didactic-scientific centre belonging to The Warsaw University of Life Science (about 50 km from Lodz, Poland, http://www.lasy.com.pl/a/artykul/ida/53/).
Address:
Leśny Zakład Doświadczalny SGGW w Rogowie
ul. Akademicka 20
95-063 ROGÓW
tel. 48-46 874-90-31, fax 48-46 874-90-08
Time:
The conference will start on Wednesday, 18th of April at 17.00 and end on Sunday, 22d of April at 11.00.
Costs of participation
The Baltic University Programme will cover all expenses for the participants during their visit in Rogów in connection with the conference (accommodation, full board, bus trip Warszawa-Rogow-Warszawa, trip to Lodz included).
Travels and travel costs
Travel costs to and from Warszawa will be the responsibility of the participants and their universities. BUP’s Centres and teachers will advice and help students to find financial support for their travel costs. For contact information at the national centres, please see the BUP National Centres.
Those of you who are not able to find money for your travel at your home university / faculty / students union / parents / foundations / others, may apply for a travel scholarship at the BUP Coordination Secretariat / Swedish Institute and have the travel costs partially reimbursed at the conference. Download and fill out the Travel Grant Application Form 
. Budget travel is required. Please once writing to us inform us to whom and when you have applied to find money to cover your travel to the conference and let us know the reason for refusal – if possible please attach a copy of your application and the received answer. Note that only very few such scholarships will be granted.
Please observe that the proper application must be sent to the BUP secretariat / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for consideration no later then March 31st.
We are sorry to inform that the BUP has no possibility to admit such travel grants for BUP students coming from Denmark, Finland, and Germany.
For those who need visas: invitations will be issued by the Polish BUP Centre or the BUP secretariat in Uppsala.
Do not hesitate to contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or the BUP Centre in Lodz in case of further questions.
Arrival
A bus will be waiting for all students at the central railway station in Warsaw (Warszawa Centralna) on Wednesday, 18th of April at 13.00.
The meeting place - in front of the tickets’ desks at the main hall at the station. The bus will take all students to Rogów, where we expect to start the conference at 17.00. Please remember to let the BUP Centre in Lodz and Maria Hejna know your arrival time!!!! (addresses see below)
Departures
Please notice that on Sunday, 22d of April, we are leaving Rogow by bus at 09.30 and we will be in Warszawa at about 14.00 so please book your travel back from Warszawa starting at no earlier then 14.00.
All participating students are kindly asked to take part in the entire conference.
Selection of Participating Students
The national BUP centres will be responsible for selecting participants.
If you have studied any of our courses, or if you come from the universities which have signed the inter-university agreement with the BUP, you are welcome to apply for participation in the conference. Important - all students applying for the participation in the conference should have a recommendation from the local BUP teacher or the BUP contact person at the university or the BUP national centre!
GOOD command of the English language is REQUIRED!
Number of students
In Rogów there are 80 students’ places that have been distributed among countries as follows:
Poland 6
NW Russia (St Pb Centre) 4
Kaliningrad 2 Belarus 6
Latvia 6 Lithuania 6
Ukraine 6 Sweden 6
Denmark 6 Germany 6
Estonia 6 Slovakia 6
Finland 6 Czech R. 6
BUP Polish Centre at the Technical University of Lodz will choose an additional 5 students from own university for an organisation group helping with practical matters during the conference.
Organizers
This year’s conference will be, traditionally, a common undertaking between the Technical University of Lodz, which will again serve as the hosting institution with Prof. Ireneusz Zbicinski from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering as the local organizer, and the Baltic University Programme secretariat at Uppsala University with Maria Hejna as the main organizer.
We thank our BUP Centre for Poland with director Prof. Ireneusz Zbicinski, Halina Marczak, Dorota Michalak, and Joanna Janczyk, for their dedicated and work and support for the programme :-)))))
We thank our host, Prof. Jozef Mosiej from the Warsaw University of Life Science, for receiving us in Rogow and for his continuing support :-)))))
To our help we will have an international Students Planning Team that will make sure that this conference will meet your expectations and be the best event ever! If you have any comments or ideas concerning the conference programme or/and execution, please contact Pontus Ambros or Magda Barecka (the BUP’s students’ representatives), who will forward your mail for further discussion within the group.
ADDRESSES/PHONE/E-MAILS
Main organizer:
The Baltic University Programme main office, Uppsala University
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Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
tel. +46-18-471 17 86
mobile +46-70-425 00 87
fax: +46-18-471 17 89
Local organizer:
Baltic University Programme Centre for Poland
Technical University of Lodz,
Prof. Ireneusz Zbicinski
Joanna Janczyk
Halina Marczak
Dorota Michalak
Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering
90-924 Lodz, ul. Wolczanska 213/215
e-mail:
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tel. +48 +42-631 37 83
mobile (Prof. Zbicinski) +48-602- 64 10 13
fax: +48 +42-636 49 23
