Baltic University Programme - A regional university network

Instructions to authors from North-Western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine of the textbooks related to the project Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture Education.

This conference brings together a small group of leading scientists and educators from North America and Europe in a 3-day conference on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus to present and discuss new knowledge and international developments in key areas of ecosystem health and sustainable agriculture, particularly as pertaining to the Baltic Sea region in Europe and the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence River regions of North America.

Read more in the EHSA Conference Programme 20-21 September 2010.

A new version of the brochure introducing the Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture (EHSA) project is now available. You may download your own copy (pdf-file).

The EHSA is now a Baltic 21 Lighthouse project.

The concept of lighthouse projects is a component of the Baltic 21 Strategy Guidelines originally presented to the Fifth Baltic Sea States Summit in June 2004 and finally adopted by the SOG in October 2004.

The term, "Lighthouse project" has been coined to denote projects "designed to demonstrate sustainable development in action". The concept encompasses the ideas of ensuring high-visibility in the region, the engagement of as many participating countries and sectors as possible and the involvement of the broader implementation of existing solutions, in addition to the demonstration of new solutions.

The Baltic 21 Lighthouse project is a quality label issued by the Baltic 21 SOG. The criteria have been developed to facilitate the development and implementation of the Baltic 21 Lighthouse projects. They should be viewed as guiding principles and applied in a flexible way. The SOG, and during the intersessional period the SOG Bureau, will decide about giving the label to proposed projects, if appropriate. An adopted Lighthouse project proposal becomes a fully-fledged Lighthouse project as soon as it secures funding for its implementation.

For more information on the Baltic 21 Lighthouse projects see the Baltic 21 website.