Last Saturday our 2-week sail course for students has come to an end. It has departured from Szczecin 🇵🇱 and via Visby 🇸🇪 and Aberdeen 🇬🇧 has finally arrived in Edinburgh 🇬🇧. Congrats for all the participants! We hope that this sail was a great once-in-a-lifetime experience for you! Please tag yourself 😉 #BUP #BUPsail

BUP Teachers´ Conference Innovations for Sustainable Development 22-24 October, 2017 Kaunas, Lithuania The Conference will address innovative approaches in teaching & learning as well as achievements and trends in science & technology towards sustainable development of our societies. It will encompass lectures, workshops as well as study visits organized by the partner universities within the BUP network. The course is free of charge (incl. accommodation and meals) for teachers from the BUP member universities. A course fee of 140 euro per person (incl. accommodation and meals) applies for all others. All participants however cover their travel costs themselves. Please see the updated list of BUP Member Universities, https://lnkd.in/gXtReDq. Note that the number of places is limited! If you are interested to join this BUP Teachers’ Conference, please contact immediately dr. Inga Radžiūnienė by e-mail (inga.radziuniene@ktu.lt) on September 29th 2017, the latest. Laisves St., Kaunas, Lithuania, 11 Sep. 2008. Photo by Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0, https://lnkd.in/gAk_CJA

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We invite our BUP Centre directors, teachers and/or BUP’s contact persons from our network’s universities to take part in this meeting. We would like to have representatives from as many universities as possible, we expect one person per university to participate. We plan to start the meeting at 12.00 on Monday, the 9th of October, and end at 16.00 next day on Tuesday, 10th of October. All costs on place in connection to the meeting, accommodation for 1 night and food, will be covered. Deadline for applications: 12 September 2017. The application should be sent to Lyudmyla Babak. http://www.balticuniv.uu.se/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1250-pre-rectors-conference-october-2017

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Reminder 5th BUP PhD Students Training Interdisciplinary-Multicultural-International 27 November - 1 December 2017 Rogow, Poland Deadline for applications: 18 September 2017 For further information please see: https://lnkd.in/eKuY2Pq Marek Sawicki presenting his doctoral theses work at the PhD training 2016 in Rogow, Poland. Photo: Krzysztof Ciesielski (mailto:krzysztof.ciesielski@p.lodz.pl)

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