Workshop: 'Young Researchers for a Plastic Free Baltic Sea Region'

The event takes place in Hamburg on 22-24 September. The workshop is the result of collaboration within the BSR between the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the Interreg Baltic-funded project BALTIPLAST, and The Baltic University Programme (BUP), making this event also a part of the German BUP Presidency.

The topic of the event is ‘Young Researchers for a Plastic Free Baltic Sea Region’ and it will be held in a hybrid format where in the morning the presentations from the experts will be available to the wider public, while in the afternoon around 30 students will actively collaborate with experts on the strategies on how to implement solutions developed under the BALTIPLAST project and to transfer them across the BSR. Experts in circularity, environmental management, policies and plastic pollution in the BSR will present and discuss soft and technical solutions developed under the BALTIPLAST project.

The event aims to establish stronger connections between experts and the participating young researchers from universities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) who are starting their individual research under the topics covered at the event. The participants will be provided with knowledge within the field and introduced to across-BRS region opportunities for future collaborations.

There is a possibility to get published in the Springer Book Innovation in the Circularity of Plastic Materials. For those interested there is the opportunity to submit an abstract via the registration form.

The participants should be conducting research in the Baltic Sea Region within any of the following fields or related topics:

• Biology
  
• Environmental Science
  
• Circular Economy
  
• Ecology
  
• Planetary Health
  
• Climate Change

The deadline for registration is 15 July. The selection of participants will be based on the motivation provided in the registration. The selected applicants will be informed if they are accepted by 20 July.