The Baltic University Programme Offers SAIL Course to Academic Staff

To apply for teaching the course, the following sustainability issues are eligible: environment, energy, climate, technology, economics, social sciences, education etc. The participants of the journey will develop the exact content of the 7 ECTS course. Alongside with teaching and learning the course, its students are supposed to carry out the duties of ship crew, therefore social skills, physical fitness and health are important, in addition to excellent teaching skills. The international cross-disciplinary team of 10 teachers and 30 students includes participants from the Baltic Sea region: Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Denmark. Further information on the SAIL course and application procedures is on the Baltic University Programme homepage: www.balticuniv.uu.se In connection with the presidency of Latvia in the Baltic University Programme in the first half of 2016, the international student spring conference and the meeting of directors of the national BUP centres will be organised in the near future and information about it will follow. Preparing for the 25th anniversary of the BUP, the presidency of Latvia highlights the necessity of active steps towards sustainability and draws on the collaboration of higher education institutions in this area. For further information contact Kristīne Āboliņa, the director of the BUP Centre for Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences (kristine.abolina@lu.lv).