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The Baltic University Programme
& university–society cooperation
Baltic University Programme Rectors
Conference
18-20 October, 2006, Uppsala, Sweden
Christine Jakobsson
Vice Director
The Baltic University Programme Secretariat
Uppsala University
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The Baltic
University Programme
15 Year
Anniversary
• a network of 200 universities &
institutes of higher learning;
• 14 countries in the Baltic Sea Basin
• 13 regional centres
• 1.500 teachers/researchers contributed
• 9.500 students yearly
• coordinated by a Secretariat at Uppsala
University, Sweden;
• focuses on sustainable development,
environmental protection & democracy;
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The Baltic
University Programme
Activity areas
- education
- research
- information
- outreach activities &
applied projects
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The Baltic University Urban Forum, BUUF
Cooperation to promote sustainable
development between cities/towns &
universities in the BSR
Background - SUPERBS project
Aim - to develop strategies for sustainable
development for cities & towns
Partners:
Organising partners: BUP, KTH, UBC
20 cities & towns in 9 countries,
15 universities & 3 NGO’s
The Union of Baltic Cities disseminates the results
> 100 cities.
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Baltic University Urban Forum
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The Baltic University Urban Forum
How to design a sustainable city?
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The Baltic University Urban Forum, BUUF
Phase 1.
 Develop strategies for SD for cities &
towns
Phase 2.
 Competence development seminars within
the participating municipalities
 Larger conferences taking up the aspect of
integrating sustainability within different
areas
www.Balticuniv.uu.se/buuf
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The Baltic University Urban Forum
The key issues
Urban flows
1. Energy management
2. Water management
3. Waste management
Urban planning
4. Traffic & transport
5. Urban Green structures & culture
6. Rebuilding the city, brownfields
Socio-economic development
7. Socio-Economic development
8. Urban - rural cooperation
9. Information & education
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The Baltic University Urban Forum
3 resources for municipal urban
management
1. Urban flows deals
with all material
2. Urban planning deals with all urban space
3. Socio-economic development is dealing
with all inhabitants
These resources are not exchangeable & they are
all limited.
Sustainable development is
defined as management of
limited resources
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The Baltic University Urban Forum
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10 BUUF Best Practice Conferences were
held in 2003-04
10 BUUF Integration conferences on
Sustainability strategies were held in 2005
BUUF indicators
BUUF city status reports:
• 2003 report collected in 2004
• 2004 report with indicator values
• 2005 report in spring 2006
• Benchmarking by the Scientific Advisory
Council
10 Guidebooks are under production
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Results - Urban flows strategies
Reducing
Using less energy
Using less water
Replacing
Using renewables, fossil free municipalities
Using less toxic, e.g. outphasing Hg
Rescaling – downscaling and upscaling
Upscaling heating – district heating
Downscaling heating – heat pumps, individual boilers
Upscaling water flows – sewage, WWTP
Recycling
Recycling waste flows (product reuse, material recycle,
incinerate)
Recycle nutrient flows (compost, production of biogas,
nutrients to fields)
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Integrated Solutions for Sustainability
Management in Baltic Cities
Sustainment
Lack of cross-sectoral policy integration
is one of the most urgent challenges of
urban sustainability in the EU & the BSR.
The main objective: to strengthen the
ability of local authorities to develop their working
methods, skills & people to significantly contribute to
SD - integrated approaches:
 developing offices responsible for sustainable
development towards Sustainability Management
Centres (SMC).
 SMCs gather & strengthen the knowledge & expertise of
all dimensions of SD (economic, social & environmental)
within the same centre.
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Sustainment
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The development of SMCs aims at
improved cross-sectoral sustainability
management in BSR cities,
increased efficiency of reducing transnational
economic, social & environmental problems
providing all European cities a working model
for integrated sustainability management.
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Sustainment - Partners
1. Union of Baltic Cities, Comm. on Environ. FI
2. Kouvola Region, Fed. of Municipalities FI
3. City of Turku, Agenda 21 of Southwest Finland FI
4. Uppsala University, BUP SE
5. Kalmar SE
6. Malmö SE
7. Växjö SE
8. Örebro SE
9. GdanskPL
10. Riga LV
11. Panevezys LT
12. Siauliai
LT
13. Kaliningrad RU
14. Novgorod RU
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Environmental Management courses
Master level courses
Course contents:
 Management tools, Environmental Impact Assessment,
certification (ISO 14001 and EMAS) & green labelling.
 Economic & legal policy instruments,
 Industry related tools e.g. cleaner production, waste
minimisation, eco-design, Life Cycle Assessment
1. Policy Instruments EM1
2. Cleaner Production EM2
3. Product Design & Life Cycle Techniques EM3
4. Environmental Management Systems & Certification
EM4
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Book 3 Product design
&
life cycle
assessment
Chapter 4
Examples of
ecodesign
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Book 4
Case studies
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Environmental Management
The courses
Four course packages
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Each course is 5 Nordic/Baltic credits = 7.5
ECTS (5 full time study weeks)
Course material:
4 books, 4 CDs, 8 films, exercises, homepage
ECTS documents, diplomas,
Teachers guide
BTox project
The Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate & the Baltic
University
Aims
• Knowledge transfer for implementation &
management of EC legislation of chemical risks
for Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
• Support the development of systematic
education in human & eco-toxicology at
universities in Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.
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BTox project
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Project ended in Dec 2005
75 individuals trained
National process of EU accession started
Latvian group has published a book on
eco-toxicology
• Estonian group works on a website/
Internet book
• Lithuanian group works on a large book
on toxicology
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Education for Sustainable
Development
• Cooperation with the Ministries of Education in the
BSR
• Baltic 21 Education Sector
• Portal for ESD (Education for Sustainable
Development)
• 3 teachers conferences (2004, 2005, 2006) on ESD
organised together with Åbo Academy financed by the
Finnish Ministry of Education
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Ecosystem Health & Sustainable
New
Agriculture
Course
Package !!
• A new course package on SD & agriculture as
well as ecosystem health at undergraduate &
masters level.
• Planning conference in Kaunas, Lithuania 12-14
September 2005
• Cooperation with BUP & the Envirovet Baltic
network: veterinaries from the BSR & the
University of Illinios, USA
• Part of the Baltic Sea Regional GEF Project in
NW Russia
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Participants
• BUP & Envirovet Baltic networks
• Countries: Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia,
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Lithuania, Poland, Kaliningrad & St. Petersburg
in Russia, Sweden and the USA
Interest from other countries: Slovakia,
Denmark, Ukraine, Germany
Interest from other regional networks:
– North American Great Lakes District.
– UniAdrion from the Adriatic - Ionian Basin
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Unique cooperation
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agronomists,
veterinaries,
animal scientists,
nature geographers,
biologists,
wildlife biologists,
chemists
economists
public health professionals etc.
New concept on sustainable agriculture & its part in the
rural ecosystem.
sustainable agriculture covered from the different aspects
represented by the above mentioned professions,
substantial knowledge on land use & rural development,
ecosystem health & the interactions between the wild
population & the domestic, poverty alleviation.
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Sustainable Agriculture & Ecosystem Health
For most students & professionals at government
agencies, municipalities, managers, advisors:
1. Ecosystem Health – general module,
obligatory before studying 2-4, more
basic level information from the other 3
modules
For students studying agronomy, veterinary
science, nature geography, biology or similar
subjects
2. Rural development and land use
3. Sustainable agriculture
4. Ecosystem Management
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BUP offers education on SD issues, both basic &
specialised & intends to continue during the ESD
decade.
- approaching 10 000 students per year.
- encourage universities to cooperate with communities they
are part of - important sustainability strategy.
- competence development for professionals in
municipalities, businesses etc.
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Thank you for your attention!
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