Students from all over the world meet at the International Students' Spring Conference at the end of May.
As part of the German presidency of the Baltic University Programme (BUP), Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is organizing this year's BUP student conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development: Resource and Energy Efficiency in Production and Transportation in cooperation with several international partners.
The conference will take place from May 28 to June 1, 2018 in Zittau and Großschönau. Around 70 participants from various countries are expected to attend. In addition to an exciting scientific program and an excursion to Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in Dresden, there will also be plenty of time to get to know each other. The conference will take place at Trixi Park, where all participants will also be accommodated. Admission to the swimming pool is free!
Further information and application form: https://www.hszg.de/international/baltic-university-programme/students-conference.html
Since 2003, our university has been a member of one of the world's largest networks for higher education, the Baltic University Program, BUP, with more than 220 partner institutions. The main topics are sustainable development, environmental protection and democracy in the Baltic Sea region. The BUP was founded in 1991 at the Swedish University of Uppsala (one of the world's most renowned universities) by Prof. Dr. Lars Rydén. He had the vision that after the end of the "Cold War", young people from the countries in the Baltic Sea catchment area should work together on solutions to regional problems, despite their different cultures, religions and languages. The Baltic Sea is considered to be the most polluted and contaminated sea in the world.
The BUP offers students from member institutions a wide range of courses and materials in English on topics such as sustainable development, environmental and biosphere protection, water protection management, resource and energy efficiency and urban development.
Regular student conferences and summer schools are organized, as well as further training for teachers ("Teacher's Conferences"). The German BUP Center is based at our university and is headed by Prof. Bernd Delakowitz. The presidency rotates every six months and is currently held by Germany, i.e. mainly by our university.
Photos by Sylwester Nagórk. The photos were taken at the last Students Conference in Kiev, Ukraine.