Event reports

This summer school was held in Klaipėda, Lithuania, hosted by Klaipėda University in July 2023. This year’s focus was on the Baltic Sea Environment with students studying on both sea and land with leading experts from across the region. A total of 35 students from 26 of the BUP participating universities and all 10 countries within the BUP network joined the event.

The students gave the event a 9.35/10 overall rating. This is the BUP’s highest rating for a summer school. Read the full event report from the BUP Science and Sail 2023.

The BUP Teachers’ Day this year,18 April, was an online workshop which was was led by EdD Ann-Christin Furu, from Åbo Akademi University. Her research interest lies within sustainability education, and she is associate professor in early childhood education.

The workshop had 38 participants (not all at the same time) from about six different countries. The participants gave the event a 4,5/5 overall rating. Read the full event report from the BUP Teachers’ Day 2023.

This course is organised by the BUP Associated Secretariat and the National Centre in Finland, located at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Åbo Akademi University. The aim of the course, or study process, is to support university teachers to integrate Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into their teaching and courses/programmes, to strengthen the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The feedback after both workshops generated an average mark of 4,5/5. There was a 91 percent reply rate in the evaluation. Read the full event report from the BUP Teachers Course.

BUP Finland has developed this course in cooperation with the Open University at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU). The participants can be a mixture of teachers at BUP participating universities, regular students at ÅAU, and students at the Open University at ÅAU. The online course Introduction to ESD was held during November 2021-January 2022 and September-December 2022. The course is of basic study level and does not require any previous knowledge in sustainability or ESD. Read the full event report from the online course Introduction to ESD.

The ITC2022 was organized by the Faculty of Geographical Sciences at the University of Lodz (Poland) in cooperation with CiTUR Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation. The event was held both online and in person in Lodz and the participants were from, for instance, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Czech Republic and Ukraine. 181 people participated in the congress in total, including 106 on-site participants, and 75 online.

This conference is part of the initiative to host a BUP event where the the BUP financially support colleagues at BUP participating universities that host and organise a BUP academic events. Read the full event report from the ITC2022.

The conference was organised by the Institute of Environmental Engineering (APINI) at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in collaboration with the non-profit organisation VšĮ "Mes Darom". Participants were welcomed to Kaunas as well as to join online. This conference is part of the initiative to host a BUP event where the the BUP financially support colleagues at BUP participating universities that host and organise a BUP academic events.

The event got a 9.4/10 overall rating and the participants thought that the best parts of the event were the interesting presentations in a widespread number of themes and the interactive panel discussions within a variety of topics. Read the full event report from the International conference.

This BUP workshop for Doctoral Students was organised and hosted by The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University, Stockholm. In this two-days international event there were opportunities to learn about the research and engage in discussion with 26 PhD candidates from BUP participating universities, gathered in the name of the BUP objectives to support the key role that universities play in a democratic, peaceful and sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region.

One of the main aims of the workshop was to support collaboration between BUP participating universities, to underline the important role of humanities and social studies within the BUP objectives, as well as to encourage interdisciplinary discussions. Read the full event report from the BUP PhD workshop.

This Science Lab had the aim to start from where the former BUP Teachers’ Courses ended, by assisting and coaching the teachers interested in publishing their most recent work in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This event is part of the initiative to host a BUP event.

The event or project took place as a platform for joint research focused on ESD methods and as capacity building needed to make the research work of high quality. The objective was to strengthen the skills and knowledge of BUP researchers in publishing scientific research findings in peer-reviewed journals. Read the full event report from the ESD Science Lab for BUP Teachers.

The MTT had the objective to give master students from BUP participating universities the opportunity to meet and discuss scientific problems with a focus on sustainability in an interdisciplinary, international, multicultural, and regional context. Each student was also given individual feedback on their master thesis from a senior from a participating university.

The participating students gave the event a 9/10 rating and they all thought that the event was helpful in terms of improving your thesis. The senior supervisors have the event a 9.75/10 rating and they were all interested in being invited to future BUP events. Read the full event report from the MTT.

The winter 2021-2022, the BUP National Centre in Finland arranged the second webinar series instead of a new course for BUP teachers, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The theme for this year was Education for Sustainable Development and Digitalisation – Implication of Digital Technology for Education Policy and Practice. The aim was to highlight the opportunities that Covid-19 has brought for reforming and innovating education. But also, contrary, to show negative implications. The target group was teachers in higher education and researchers at BUP participating universities, but the events were open for everyone interested.

All four webinars got positive feedback, the combined average evaluation was 4,45/5. Read the full event report from the webinars ESD and Digitalisation.