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The Baltic University Programme
The Baltic University Programme (BUP) is a network of about 225 universities and other institutes of higher learning throughout the Baltic Sea region. The network is coordinated by the Baltic University Programme Secretariat a part of Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD Uppsala) at Uppsala University, Sweden.
The Programme focuses on questions of sustainable development, environmental protection, and democracy in the Baltic Sea region. The aim is to support the key role that universities play in a democratic, peaceful and sustainable development. This is achieved by developing university courses, and by participation in projects in cooperation with authorities, municipalities and others.
The Baltic University Programme invites your university to take part in the network. It has shown that member universities enhance their ranking and that a membership also may enhance the possibilities to get funding. Questions on how to join are answered by your nearest BUP Center or the Secretariat
The BUP Secretariat
The Baltic University Programme activities are coordinated by a secretariat in Uppsala, Sweden at Uppsala University. Among these activities are regular teachers training and student conferences as well as many other projects and courses on sustainable development.
The secretariat also maintains a web site with latest news from the network and many other services of interest for the BUP students and teachers.
For more information see the Baltic University Programme web site.
National Centres
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Some of the BUP national centra maintain their own web sites:
Finnish National BUP Centre at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
German National BUP Centre at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Polish National BUP Centre at Lodz Technical University, Lodz, Poland
NW Russia BUP Centre at St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
Kaliningrad BUP Centre at Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad, Russia
Finnish National BUP-Centre
The Centre for lifelong learning (Centre of Continuing Education) at Åbo Akademi University has functioned as the Finnish National Centre of BUP since the Programme started in 1991. The centre is led by director Paula Lindroos. The main task for the Finnish National centre is to assist and co-operate with the secretariat in Uppsala, to support the Finnish universities participating in the BUP-network, to arrange BUP-courses at Åbo Akademi University and to participate in the development of the Programme.
The national BUP-centre at Åbo Akademi university was during 2004-2006, through fundings via the Finnish Ministry of Education, supporting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Baltic 21 E, within the whole BUP-Network.
From 2007 Åbo Akademi is within the BUP-Network coordinating the forum "ESD in Higher Education - a national resource centre" also funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education.
The centre is:
- arranging seminars, workshops and conferences (national and for the whole Baltic region) for teachers, researchers and educational planners (on educational and learning methods, case studies, concepts), encouraging and evaluating the implementation of the DESD in higher education.
- maintaining a national BUP webpage for the higher education and a ESD homepage, providing information on references (textbooks, publications, didactic methods), links to networks, departments, course descriptions and other tools promoting education for sustainable development.
