Baltic University Programme

The Baltic University Programme (BUP) is one of the largest university cooperations in the world with 116 participating universities (as of April 2025) in the Baltic Sea Region. It has its Coordinating Secretariat at Uppsala University, in Sweden. The Programme has strived since its foundation in 1991 to find novel ways of interaction among universities by promoting openness, internationalisation and mobility. The main aim is to support building strong regional educational and research communities. The focus of the programme is Sustainable development, Environmental protection and Democracy.

The participating universities are located in countries that fully or partly lay within the Drainage basin area of the Baltic Sea and include the countries of Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Ukraine. In each country, a National Centre provides the local contacts within the Programme, the National Centres are also responsible for content and arrangement of the BUP events in a half-year rotation Presidency within the Programme. Some of the activities that are arranged are: student conferences, PhD students trainings, university teacher's trainings, summer schools, research conferences and different online activities.

Much of the Programme's work is centralised around the 10 themes.

  1. Circular economy
  2. Climate change
  3. Education for sustainable development
  4. Energy Systems (previously Renewable energy)
  5. Sustainable food system
  6. Sustainable mobility
  7. Sustainable societies
  8. Sustainable tourism
  9. Sustainable Water resources
  10. Urban-Rural development
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