International Office Informs
The Master Thesis Training is an opportunity for master students to get supervision from a senior from another BUP Participating University. Moreover, it will provide an opportunity to get feedback from other students in the region, build connections with other students, and become better acquainted with other academic perspectives in an interdisciplinary and intercultural environment. This training offers an interdisciplinary learning experience, with sustainability as a shared concept.
The BUP will admit 30 master students from different disciplines, universities and nationalities. The students should be working with their master thesis during the spring semester of 2022. The content of the master thesis should be related to sustainability in a Baltic Sea Region context.
The training consists of a voluntary start-up seminar (online). The training 2022 is planned to be an “in-person” training with the hope that the COVID-19 situation will have improved by then. The BUP will monitor the situation closely and update the announcement accordingly and notify applicants about possible changes. The plan is to meet the 11-14 April 2022 at the conference complex Ratnieki in Latvia.
The program of the training includes: lectures, workshops, students’ presentations of thesis work, individual consultancies of the thesis with academic seniors, as well as feedback from other students.
The objective is to give master students from the BUP member countries the possibility to meet and discuss scientific problems with a focus on sustainability in an interdisciplinary, international, multicultural, and regional context. In this way, students will also get the opportunity to become acquainted with other universities and their scientific traditions. The training program will be based on an interdisciplinary approach.
Only students who are currently writing their master thesis related to sustainability in a Baltic Sea region context and is enrolled at one of the BUP Participating Universities will be accepted. A list of current BUP Participating Universities can be found on the BUP web pages.
The thesis topic should be related to at least one of the following BUP Themes:
1. Climate Change
2. Renewable Energy
3. Sustainable Societies
4. Sustainable Water Resources
5. Urban-Rural Development
6. Sustainable Mobility
7. Circular Economy
8. Sustainable Tourism
9. Education for Sustainable Development
10. Sustainable Food Systems
After the application deadline, a selection of 30 students will be made. The selection will be made based on written motivations from the students and a spread amongst the 10 BUP themes.
Application is open and published in the online form: Kurt - Webbaserade enkäter (uu.se)
Required documents
One-page summary of the master thesis (title, affiliation, name of supervisor, short description of the work included). Please observe that the one-page summary should be attached directly to the online application form.
Application deadline is 31 January 2022
The conference is free of charge for master students from the BUP's Participating Universities and for them all costs of accommodation, food, and local transportation connecting Riga with the conference place and back will be covered by the BUP (the coordinating secretariat). All students must however cover all travel costs to and from Riga, Latvia themselves. If you get selected to participate in the training, make sure to check that your passport, documents, visa, etc. are valid for the trip.
Depending on the COVID-19 situation in Latvia in April, some alterations to the training might have to be made. In case of a deteriorating situation, the training will be held online instead of in-person, for the safety of both the students and staff. This BUP event is dependent on the recommendations and regulations of Latvia which means that you need to consider the national guidelines for cleared vaccines and PCR tests. DO NOT book any flight or train tickets at this time.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Emma Stockvall Carlsson, Project administrator at emma.stockvall@balticuniv.uu.se or WUNU International Office (office 1308 and 1222).
