Event reports

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 training was arranged by the BUP National Centre in Poland and BUP's Associated Secretariat at the Lodz University of Technology. The PhD Students Training is an opportunity for PhD students to become better acquainted with other academic perspectives. The PhD students are offered training in interdisciplinary research cooperation with the guidance of an international group of interdisciplinary research experts, composed of senior scientists.

The PhD students gave the event a 9.8 overall rating and their most apprieciated parts of the event were the interactions with other students and the meetings with and feedback from experts. Read the full event report from the BUP PhD Students Training 2022.

This online seminar was held on 17 November. During the seminar the presentations and discussions focused on what efforts BUP participating universities in Finland take to reduce their carbon footprint. The program consisted of three presentations and three shorter comments regarding the actual universities’ actions and thoughts about sustainable food- and handprints. All viewpoints came from BUP participating universities in Finland, but the seminar was open for everybody interested. Read the full event report from this online seminar.

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 Baltic University Programme’s annual Student Conference, is a conference for students with a topic connected to one of the ten BUP themes. In 2022, the conference was organised in collaboration between the BUP's coordinating secretariat at Uppsala University and Slovak University of Agriculture and the topic was Resilient food systems from a Baltic Sea Region perspective.

The participating students gave the event a rating of 9.16/10 in their final evaluation and the conference was a great success, with students enjoying the interactive program and many interesting discussions. Read the full event report from the student conference.

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.