Workshop: “Young Researchers for a Plastic Free Baltic Sea Region”

The three-day workshop will be organised for current master's and PhD students at BUP participating universities and other universities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), who aim to become future researchers, experts, and decision makers. The event takes place in Hamburg on 21-24 September. The workshop is the result of collaboration within the BSR between Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the Interreg Baltic-funded project BALTIPLAST, and The Baltic University Programme (BUP) making this event also a part of the German BUP Presidency. 

The topic of the event is ‘Young Researchers for a Plastic Free Baltic Sea Region’ and it will be held in a hybrid format where in the morning the presentations from the experts will be available to the wider public, while in the afternoon around 30 students will actively collaborate with experts on the strategies on how to implement solutions developed under the BALTIPLAST project and to transfer them across the BSR. Current BSR recognised experts in circularity, environmental management, policies and plastic pollution will be carefully selected in order to cover soft and technical solutions developed under the BALTIPLAST project. 

The event aims to establish stronger connections between experts and the participating young researchers from universities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) who are starting their individual research under the above-mentioned topics. The participants will be provided with knowledge within the field and introduced to across-BRS region opportunities for future collaborations.  

The participants should be conducting research in the Baltic Sea Region within any of the following fields or related topics: 

• Biology 
• Environmental Science 
• Circular Economy 
• Ecology 
• Planetary Health 
• Climate Change 

Agenda: click here.

OPPORTUNITY TO PUBLISH A CHAPTER IN SPRINGER BOOK:

“Innovation in the Circularity of Plastic Materials”. If you are interested, submit the abstract via the Registration form: https://forms.gle/eAN1VVp3zocVEQM96 

Practical information 

All available spots for in-person participation in the workshop have now been filled. Applicants who submitted an abstract before the deadline on 15 July will receive a notification of acceptance or rejection in the coming days.

Please note that abstract submission after the 15 July for the publication is still open; however, acceptance of your abstract does not guarantee participation in the event. Abstracts submitted after 15 July are still eligible for publication in the Springer Book. The organizing team will inform applicants about the status of their application and send an acceptance or rejection letter.

The event will be held in English. 

The accommodation and food during the three-day stay in Hamburg are covered by the organisers. All participants must cover their own travel costs to and from Hamburg.