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Live Webcast from the Nordic Climate Festival @Aalto
Join a live webcast from the Nordic Climate Festival @Aalto opening seminar, Shortcuts to Sustainable Nordic Communities on Wednesday 31st August, 9-12AM Finnish time (GMT +3:00)!
Starting at 10.30AM we’ll invite 7 top figures on sustainability issues in Finland and Iceland to discuss ways of promoting sustainable Nordic innovations in the Nordic countries – tune in to hear how research, finance and private sector can help in finding shortcuts to sustainable Nordic communities!
Panelists include among others CEO Jaakko Särelä, ZenRobotics, Director Jukka Noponen, Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, Energy Programme and General Manager Jón Björn Skúlason, Icelandic New Energy. The panel discussion is hosted by journalist Kari Rissa and Sustainability Coordinator Meri Löyttyniemi, Aalto University. The seminar is in English.
The SAIL 2011 Course Onboard STS Fryderyk Chopin
Social, cultural, economical and environmental aspects of sustainability will be in focus on board the Polish sailing ship STS Fryderyk Chopin for 38 BUP students and teachers. The participants on the SAIL 2011 course comes from 12 countries in the BUP network representing a large number of different university faculties and disciplines.
The preliminary schedule for the SAIL 2011 voyage is: Halmstad, Sweden 11.8 – Rønne, Denmark 15-16.8 – Karlshamn, Sweden 17-18.8 – Tallinn, Estonia 22-23.8 – Turku, Finland 26-28.8.
In Turku the ship and its crew will participate in the celebrations of Turku as Cultural Capital of Europe for this year.
For more information see the SAIL 2011 
broshure.
Chopin photos
Photos by Ea Blomqvist, Artur Magnuszewski and Christian Andersson
Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, and the Baltic Sea Region
BUP International Teachers’ conference on
Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, and the Baltic Sea Region
2 - 6 September 2011
Gniezno, Poland
This conference will be a common undertaking of the BUP secretariat, Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense, filial of Adam Mickiewicz University, in Gniezno, Poland, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and University of Economics in Poznan.
All BUP teachers of the Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, or any other courses related to the topic are welcome to apply for participation. At the conference we will have the possibility to welcome 45 of teachers which means that every country in the network may send about 4 teachers.
Note: Last application date prolonged until 10th August, 2011, for details see the BUP website.
The Stockholm Memorandum
Nobel Laureates hand over recommendations to UN High Level Panel on global sustainability.
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations.
The verdict from the trial of humanity, which opened the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium, has been incorporated into the Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability.
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