BUP Symposium 2021
The aim of the Symposium is to be a platform where the regional educational and research communities can get together and get to know each other better as colleagues at participating universities of The Baltic University Programme. It is an opportunity to disseminate recent research and learn about new knowledge. The Symposium is an arena where new discussions and collaborations can begin. We are challenging researchers from different disciplines with an interest in the Baltic Sea Region as an empirical field to discuss Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region. We focus on research having an inter-/multi disciplinary approach.
Our programme and region has many touch points with others, for example the ESSSR and UniAdrion. Therefore, researchers from these networks were invited to present at the BUP Symposium 2021, giving presenters and listeners the possibility to meet colleagues from other geographical regions.
Poster session
Typically, a poster session takes place physically, in a large room, and is often visually pleasing allowing visitors to study, restudy and discuss the posters. In this case, there was a poster-article-version of the research, in order to make them on-line friendly and accessible. The authors also gave oral presentations in a special poster panel at the BUP Symposium 2021.
Symposium practicalities
The date of the BUP Symposium 2021 was 19-20 October 2021.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this Symposium could not take place in person. Instead, it was held as a virtual symposium. By doing so, it was made accessible to many more colleagues. Keynote speakers and research presentations were organised as webinars.
Support for young scholars
For this edition year, young scholars were invited to present their research. Those with accepted abstracts were also able to submit their full paper to one of the Special Issues that the BUP were guest editors for. The five most promising papers got the opportunity to be supported by the BUP (BUP offered to paid the publication fee when the paper was accepted by the scientific journal).
This opportunity was an alternative option allowing us to support young scholars during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021 the BUP did not announce the BUP Mobility Research Grant aiming to strengthen the cooperation among young researchers (PhD students and Postdoc scholars) in the Baltic Sea Region, in their research on topics relevant for sustainable development.