BUP Symposium
The Symposium is a platform where regional educational and research communities can come together and get to know colleagues at participating universities of The Baltic University Programme (BUP). It serves as an arena for disseminating recent research and where new discussions and collaborations can begin.
The Symposium features presentations from researchers and sessions that focus on future research collaboration and projects. Those who attend have the opportunity to share new research as well as foster new research collaborations.
BUP Symposium 2025
The Baltic University Programme (BUP) is pleased to invite researchers from BUP participating universities to participate in the upcoming Symposium on the theme 'Strengthening the Security and Resilience of the Baltic Sea Region – Environmental, Political, Social, and Economic Shocks and Crises', to be held on-site in Uppsala, Sweden, between 26-28 November 2025.
We will welcome 80 researchers from BUP participating universities, representing various disciplines with an interest in the Baltic Sea Region as an empirical field to discuss the Symposium's core theme. For PhD candidates please see below information about the connected event PhD Students Training.
The Symposium will feature oral presentations organised according to five sessions, each with a focus on the Baltic Sea Region:
- Climate Change in Times of Environmental and Geopolitical Instability
- Energy Security and Energy Transitions
- International Relations: Cooperation and Conflict
- Civil Society and Preparedness
- Resilient Food Systems and Water Security
Each session welcomes contributions from different disciplines and perspectives, interdisciplinary approaches are appreciated. We invite you/your research team to submit an abstract of a maximum of 300 words including background and aims, methods, results, and conclusions by 16 May 2025 for consideration. Submitted abstracts are considered for paper presentations (12 min. presentation with 12 min. discussion).
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