Baltic University Programme - Finland
Encounters of Sea and Land
Sixth conference of European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
'Encounters of Sea and Land'
28 June - 2 July 2011
Turku, Finland
The conference will examine how the sea and land have encountered each other in history and how humans have interacted with marine and land environments. The Baltic Sea and its coasts provide an excellent case to study this complex relationship.
For more information see the conference web site,
Report: BUP - Network Virtual Courses on Sustainable Development
Baltic 21 E network
This report by Turku University of Applied Sciences includes information on all the sustainable development related virtual courses that were discovered in questionnaires conducted in 2007 and 2010. Altogether 38 courses were discovered. The questionnaires showed that virtual courses already apply a multitude of learning management systems.
Integration through territorial co-operation
Europe’s Macro-Regions
Integration through territorial co-operation
Forum at the Committee of the Regions, Brussels
13 April 2010
The Committee of the Regions (CoR) invites interested regional representatives, experts and other stakeholders from existing and emerging 'macro-regions' to discuss issues related to strategy development and implementation and other themes of common interest at the CoR headquarters in Brussels (101 rue Belliard) on Tuesday, 13 April 2010.
For more information see the conference Programme (pdf-file) or visit the COR web site.
Marine biodiversity: life in seas under threat
10 messages for 2010
Marine Ecosystems: LIfe in Seas Under Threat 
Marine biodiversity: life in seas under threat Climate change, pollution, acidification, over-exploitation of fish stocks, invasive alien species all threaten life in our seas and consequently the services we obtain from them. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment of marine biodiversity takes a closer look at the ‘less known half’ of EU territory.
Residential Training Workshop on Universities & ESD
This Training Workshop is following the successful implementation of the training course “Training in ESD through an inter-regional perspective: the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions" (6-12 October 2008, Uppsala) and is proposed within the framework of the cooperation between the Baltic University Programme (BUP) and the Mediterranean Universities Network on Sustainable Development for SD focusing on ESD (MedUnNET).
Thanks to Sida’s Baltic Sea Unit financial contribution we have place for 30 BUP's teachers from the whole region at this workshop.
For more information please see the BUP Teachers web site.
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