Events Archives - Baltic University Programme

The BUP Teachers’ Day Brings the Science of Compassion into Higher Education

[email protected]2024-03-11T13:13:33+00:00March 11th, 2024|Events, For teachers|

Bringing the Science of Compassion into Higher Education – an Introduction to SEE Learning (Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning) Time: Tuesday 16 April 2024 13.30-16 CEST Place: Online Registration form. Please register on 15 April at the latest. Ryder Delaloye. How can educators bring the Science of Compassion and Wellbeing into their courses? We will get a first insight of Emory University’s best practices of engaging students and colleagues. Our coach is Ed.D. Ryder Delaloye, Associate Director for the SEE Learning Program at Emory University in Atlanta. This session will empower higher education practitioners to apply research-based strategies [...]

BUP Science and Sail 2023

[email protected]2023-04-21T08:26:24+00:00April 21st, 2023|Events, For students|

The Baltic University Programme (BUP) and Klaipėda University, proudly present BUP Science and Sail 2023, a summer school with the focus on the Baltic Sea Environment. The summer school will take place between 3-9 July in Klaipėda, Lithuania and the waters of the Baltic Sea. Accepted students will be studying the sensitive Baltic Sea Environment, both on land and at sea with leading experts from across the region. Parts of the summer school will take place onboard Klaipėda University’s sailing vessel Brabander, sailing the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea, while conducting tests and collecting samples. Participants will also study [...]

BUP Student Conference 2023

[email protected]2023-03-21T12:44:35+00:00March 13th, 2023|Events, For students|

The Baltic University Programme’s Coordinating Secretariat at Uppsala University and Kaunas University of Technology, proudly present the BUP Student Conference 2023. This year, focus is on the topic Sustainable production and consumption: A circular economy perspective. The conference is held on May 9-12. The conference is free of charge and applications are open for students studying at bachelor and master level at The Baltic University Programme’s participating universities. In total 80 students from BUP participating universities will be selected to take part. The first full day of the conference is held together with the International Young Researchers Conference hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. This means that the BUP [...]

BUP Teachers’ Day: Inner Sustainability – the core of education for sustainability

[email protected]2023-02-22T16:13:47+00:00February 22nd, 2023|Events, For teachers|

Welcome all teachers within the BUP to BUP Teachers’ Day! Time: 18.4. 2023, 13-15.30 CET Place: Online Click for registration form. Ann-Christin Furu. Traditionally, Sustainable Development is based on three pillars: the ecological, the societal, and the economic sustainability. But to be aware of these, your inner transition, or inner sustainability, is of importance. How do you understand, feel and relate to all the things that are happening around you? Both on the local and the global scale. When you support your own wellbeing and work to develop abilities, skills, and qualities for inner growth, you are better prepared [...]

BUP Finland 2022 in retrospect

[email protected]2022-12-28T10:54:31+00:00December 28th, 2022|Events, News|

The year 2022 has been turbulent for the whole Baltic University Programme (BUP) cooperation, due to Russia’s offensive war in Ukraine. The situation has a direct and concrete impact on BUP with 17 member universities in Ukraine. The BUP coordinating secretariate reacted immediately and according to the directives from Uppsala University. The result was that the cooperation within BUP can continue, but the member countries diminished from twelve to ten (no member universities from Russia and Belarus). BUP Finland at the BUP Rectors’ Conference in Uppsala, September 2022. From the left: Cecilia Lundberg, Annina Kainu, Sinikka Suomalainen, Tapio Salmi, [...]

Now on Youtube: Sustainable foot- and handprints at the Finnish BUP universities

[email protected]2022-11-23T08:28:17+00:00October 21st, 2022|Events, News|

The online seminar “Sustainable foot- and handprints at the Finnish BUP universities" that took place on November 17, 2022, at 10.00–12 EET (UTC+2) is now available on Youtube. The playlist with all recorded presentations. Programme: Welcome Cecilia Lundberg, Centre Director, BUP Finland, Åbo Akademi University. University of Turku: Towards 2025 – Carbon Neutral and Sustainable Campus Life Jutta Mäkinen, Sustainable Development Specialist, University of Turku. Recording of Jutta Mäkinen's presentation on Youtube. Biodiversity Footprint Assessment in Organizations: Case JYU Sami El Geneidy, Doctoral Researcher in Corporate Environmental Management from the University of Jyväskylä. Recording of Sami El Geneidy's presentation on [...]

Conference on how to make sustainable consumption and production possible

[email protected]2022-10-10T06:46:37+00:00October 10th, 2022|Events, News, Research|

Institute of Environmental Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology in cooperation with BUP invites you to the 4th international conference “Sustainable Consumption and Production: How to Make it Possible”. The hybrid conference (online and on-place) takes place in KTU Santaka Valley, K. Baršausko str. 59 Kaunas, Lithuania on 10-11 of November 2022. Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 of October. The conference is free of charge for 30 participants from BUP participating universities. For other participants there is a 150 Euro full fee, 100 Euro for online participants and 50 Euro for students participating online. During [...]

The BUP Teachers’ Day programme is now available online

[email protected]2022-05-02T06:45:19+00:00May 2nd, 2022|Events, For teachers|

The BUP Teachers’ Day was arranged online on April 27, 2022. The presentation “From a BUP course to Advancing ESD: Assessing UNESCOs Critical Key Competences” by Alice Annelin & Gert-Olof Boström, Umeå University, Sweden was recorded during the afternoon. The BUP Teachers’ Day was arranged by the BUP Finland. https://youtu.be/caK5v7FkVUo

The BUP Teachers’ Day – online in April

[email protected]2022-03-23T08:37:53+00:00March 23rd, 2022|Events, For teachers|

Welcome to join The BUP Teachers’ Day! Date: April 27, 2022. Time: 13–16 CET (= 14–17 EET). Location: e-event on Zoom. Open for all teachers in BUP! The BUP Teachers’ Day will be an afternoon filled with new inspiration, chance for sharing experience and best practice, and a perfect opportunity to get in touch with old friends and new contacts among the diverse community of teachers in higher education within the BUP. Program: 13.00 Welcome and get together. 13.30 “From a BUP course to Advancing ESD: Assessing UNESCOs Critical Key Competences”. Alice Annelin & Gert-Olof Boström, Umeå University, Sweden. [...]

Webinar series: ESD & Digitalisation: Implications of Digital Technology for Education Policy and Practice

Cecilia Lundberg2021-12-10T11:49:32+00:00October 5th, 2021|Courses for teachers, Events, News|

Which are the opportunities that COVID-19 brings for reform and innovation in education? Do we also see opposite implications? Baltic University Programme (BUP) is organizing a webinar series where these topics are discussed. The main target group for the webinar series is teachers in higher education, especially within the BUP, however the webinars are open for everyone interested. Each webinar is arranged at 14–15 CET. The programme 16 November 2021: Yash Chawla, assistant Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland: “Predictors and Outcomes of Individual Knowledge on Early-Stage Pandemic: Social Media, Information Credibility, Public Opinion, and Behaviour in a [...]