Student Representatives and Ambassadors
The Student Representatives are elected by the BUP Students' Parliament and represent the students on the BUP International Board. Read more about the BUP Students' Parliament.
Student Representative
Mandate 2022-2024

Tereza Homolova
University of Ostrava
Student Representative
Mandate 2023-2025

Niumi Dissanayake
Riga Technical University
Student Ambassadors
The Baltic University Programme's Student Ambassadors are in total 26 students from
14 participating universities that actively promote the BUP and upcoming events at their home universities and in their home countries. They also function as an additional contact person between the Coordinating Secretariat, the National Centres, but also the Student Representatives and the local universities. There are three different profiles that you can chose to be engaged in as a Student Ambassador; the social media group, the research communication group, and the event group. Based on your group you will be able to work closer with the students that share your interest and you will work together in an international context to promote the BUP.
Click here to read more about the role as a Student Ambassador.
Research communication group
Sola Alaba Ayeni
Study: Environmental Governance and Adaptation to Climate Change at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu
Victoria Boycheva
Victoria believes that the Baltic Sea Region has great potential to introduce innovation at all scales and positively impact society. The region has sufficient capacity resources to overcome the uncertainty presented by the Russian war, and by enhancing massive regional cooperation and capacity building, it can lead the competition to net zero by 2050. Scientific collaboration, complemented by public participation, will be the key to sustainable growth.
Study: Environmental Governance and Adaptation to Climate Change at University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia & Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu
E-mail Victoria
Linus Uzoewulu
Linus' vision for the Baltic Sea Region is to see the several ecological threats of the Baltic Sea reduced to the greatest minimum. And to see a boom in the maritime economy of the Baltic Sea Region.
Study: Environmental Management at Kiel University, Germany
Marina Valenćiková
Marina hopes that the Baltic Sea Region will be characterised by good co-operations.
Study: Integrated rural development at Slovak University of Agricultural in Nitra, Slovakia
E-mail Marina
Gurnish Panesar
Study: Medicine at Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil
E-mail Gurnish
Monika Shrestha
Monikas vision for the Baltic Sea Region is for the improvement of digitalized systems throughout the region by keeping in mind its green deal sustainability.
Study: Software Engineering at University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
E-mail Monika
Event group
Dzvineslava Slyzhuk
Dzvineslavas vision for the Baltic Sea Region is for there to be a high level of education, close work with EU, development of new technologies and products in energy markets.
Study: Medicine at Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk
Volodymyr Cherpak
Volodymyrs vision for the Baltic Sea Region for there to be increasing communication between regions.
Study: Dentistry at Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk
Lara Lüdecke
Lara hopes that that the Baltic Sea countries exchange knowledge and best practices among each other to collaborate in strengthening health and sustainability and promote peace and well-being.
Study: Master in Public Health at Lund University, Lund, Sweden
E-mail Lara
Teresa Spang
Teresa looks forwards to sharing knowledge and practice between different professions and establish intercultural collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region.
Study: Nursing at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland
E-mail Teresa
Simona Halasova
Simonas vision for the Baltic Sea Region is for it to be healthy, inclusive and diverse.
Study: International Master Double Degree Program in Business Economics at Slovak University of Agricultural in Nitra, Slovakia
E-mail Simona
Avnish Panesar
Study: Medicine at Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil
E-mail Avnish
Jintao Yang
Jintaos vision is for the Baltic Sea Region to be an be an all-round sustainable region.
Study: PhD student in Economics and Management at University of Latvia, Latvia
E-mail Jintao
Shahid Mubasshar
Shahid believed that if trends of the recent past (e.g. steady economic growth, the inflow of immigrants) and current policy practices (e.g. EU political integration) continue to be in effect in the following three decades. In a scenario where the trends are stable, the rural-urban divide will continue to grow. This implies that bigger cities will keep generating economic power and will be able to attract more people while the rural areas will continue to decline.
Study: Mathematics at University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
E-mail Shahid
Siwei Xia
Siwei dream of being a part of the transformation and establish new grounds under sustainable management with people, who consider stakeholders while simultaneously acknowledging the relationship to nature, society, and sustainable development goals. I hope that through the BUP we can build a network that works on innovative solutions and reach more people to become environmental enthusiasts.
Study: Sustainable Destination Development at Uppsala University, Visby, Sweden
E-mail Siwei
Social media group
Minerva Serrano Martínez
Minervas vision is for the Baltic Sea Region to be an international hub for technological and scientific innovation with sustainable and equality grounds.
Study: Master in Public Health at Lund University, Sweden
E-mail Minerva
Khrystyna Martyniak
Khrystyna thinks the best future for Baltic Sea Region development is fostering strong sustainable cooperation between educational medical institutions to provide an exchange of practical experience, access to new methods and approaches in medical sphere and large network creation.
Study: Medicine at Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine
E-mail Khrystyna
Ali Badshah
Ali wishes to give his hardest, to solidify both my own and the BUPs identities.
Study: BSc Science and Technology at University of Tartu, Tartu
E-mail Ali
Trang Nguyen
Trangs imaginary picture for the Baltic Sea Region is a region that ensures fair opportunities for everyone and prepares and stores resources for future generations to develop. It is also a transparent and inclusive society in which people can live peacefully with high trust in the system and relationships between people.
Study: Education and Learning at University of Turku, Turku, Finland
E-mail Trang