Baltic University Programme - A regional university network

The  Summer Course on Sustainability and Waste Management is being organized by the German offices of the Baltic University Programme in Hamburg and Zittau. The course will take place on 11-15 September 2012 in Goerlitz, Germany.

Students from all subjects registered at universities of the Baltic Sea Region and beyond are welcome to attend the summer course.

Details on the programme of the Summer Course as well as about the registration can be seen at: http://ag-umwelt.hszg.de/index.php?id=3896. The organisers are unable to pay for any travel costs, but may be able to help with local accommodation and food. Please note that registration is necessary and that the number of participants is limited.

A second meeting for the planned BUP master course on Maritime Spatial Planning will be held on board the Polish sailing ship STS Fryderyk Chopin. The meeting will take place during a cruise that will be a part of the European Maritime Day in Gothenburg, Sweden the 20th May. The cruise will start in Szczecin, Poland on the 18th May and end in the same place the 25th May.

Please see the Program for further information. See also some photos from the cruise.

With Chopin on the radar
Follow this link to Marinetraffic to see where she is right now (if she is within the range of the system). For further information on Chopin see her page on Wikipedia.

The “World Symposium on Sustainable Development  at Universities” (WSSD-U-2012), organised  by the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), under the auspices of the RCE Hamburg and Region, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 5-6 June 2012. It is an official parallel event to the  UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, and will consist of state-of-the-art presentations of university research activities, curriculum development and outreach programmes on sustainability in higher education from over 30 countries.

For further information see the programme of the conference.

During the European Maritime Days 2012 which are organised by EUs DG MARE, BTH as Swedish National Centre for Baltic University Programme will be co-organising the Workshop Training for maritime professions - competence and education tailored to business needs of European maritime clusters. Centre Director Prof Lars Emmelin will be speaking on the topic of maritime spatial planning education in the Baltic Sea.

Don't forget to register your participation in time as there are limited spaces!

For further information please see attached file. (NOTE!!! this workshop takes place on Tuesday 22 May as written on the website! There is an error on the PDF)

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Training for Maritime professions - competence and education tailored to busines

A first EHSA (Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture) Teachers Conference will be held in Rogów, Poland the 3 - 7 June, 2012.

New book published by Baltic University Press.

Ecology and Animal Health is the second book in the Ecosystem Health & Sustainable Agricluture series. The book has been edited by Leif Norrgren and Jeffrey Levengood. 52 scientists have contributed to the book.

Sustainable Agriculture – Cross-cutting Themes, Truly Multidisciplinary

You may order hardcopies of the book in the Web shop. The book is also available free for download from the Teaching Materials section of the BUP web site.