News

The BUPRaP Roadshow

2024-02-02T12:32:25+00:00January 31st, 2024|News|

Scientific networking on Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region  Professor Walter Leal. One of the main aims of  The Baltic University Programme (BUP) is to promote a strong regional research community in the field of sustainability. The Baltic Research and Publications Office (BUPRaP) at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is a research and publications infrastructure supporting the Baltic University Programme (BUP) members in research activities and to enhance publications output and profile. Welcome to a seminar where research and cooperation on sustainable development are the focus. Professor Walter Leal from the BUPRap office in Hamburg talks about [...]

BUP Finland wishes Happy Holidays

2023-12-21T09:45:42+00:00December 22nd, 2023|News|

It's time to wish Happy Holidays! BUP Finland, as a part of the Centre for lifelong learning at Åbo Akademi University, takes part in the Good Holiday Spirit campaign, with a donation that supports low-income families with grocery vouchers. The campaign is organised by the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare and the Finnish Red Cross, together with the broadcasting company Yle. The Good Holiday Spirit campaign is in its 27th year in 2023. Enjoy the holidays and let's get back to BUP business soon when 2024 is here!

BUP Finland 2023 in retrospect

2023-12-21T09:08:57+00:00December 21st, 2023|News|

After the year 2022, when BUP both started to build up its face-to-face activities after the pandemic and needed to restrict, adjust, and adapt the collaboration and overall work and routines due to the war in Ukraine, the year 2023 was more predictable. Still, the situation in Ukraine continues to have a great impact on the activities in the network. BUP Finland has continued with the annual upcoming activities. We have arranged and organized courses and activities for especially teachers within BUP throughout the year. We have made an effort to communicate with the other BUP member universities nationally and [...]

BUP Finland 2022 in retrospect

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, [...]

  • Decorative picture.

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

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 [...]

  • Decorative picture.

Conference on how to make sustainable consumption and production possible

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 [...]

BUP Finland holds the BUP Presidency in the autumn 2022

2022-10-21T07:02:09+00:00August 30th, 2022|News|

The BUP National Centre in Finland holds the BUP Presidency in the autumn 2022. The holder of the BUP Presidency is responsible for the content and arrangement of BUP's annual events. The presidency also includes promotion of the BUP in the own country, along with additional events and activities aimed at strengthening the programme in the country and the region as a whole. In the autumn 2022 the following activities are arranged by BUP Finland: - The BUP Teachers’ Course, that starts in September 2022. - The online course Introduction to Education for Sustainable Development (5 cr), starting in September [...]

  • Ukraine Nature - Ecosystems have no boarders.

Invitation to attend the workshop “Ukraine Nature”

2022-08-29T13:04:15+00:00August 29th, 2022|News|

Dear colleague, You are hereby invited to attend a workshop that presents the project "Nature Conservation and Conflict in Ukraine: Determining War Damages to Nature Reserves in Ukraine", held online 13 September 2022. The Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is currently undertaking the project "Nature Conservation and Conflict in Ukraine: Determining War Damage to Nature Reserves in Ukraine" ("Ukraine Nature"). This is supported by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt). Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in February 2022, the world's attention has focused [...]

  • Dekorativ bild.

Support for Ukrainian scholars and scientists

2022-03-18T12:20:50+00:00March 18th, 2022|News|

Åbo Akademi University, where BUP Finland's National Centre is located, supports Ukrainian university students by offering them the possibility to study courses without fees. There are two different options: Supplementary studies for non-degree students or Open University courses. More information on the university's webpage Special arrangements for Ukrainian students. The coordinating secretariat at The Baltic University Programme have put together different initiatives in Europe and the rest of the world which aims to help scholars and scientists affected by the war in Ukraine. The Baltic Science Bridge is an initiative by the BUP Associate Secretariat at the Hamburg University of [...]

Go to Top