Baltic University Programme BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005

1. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Baltic University ProgrammeBUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Reporting from Poland Director of BUP Centre in Poland Prof. Ireneusz Zbiciński

2. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Number and type of courses and students per course Academic year 2003/2004 Course SBR SWM BSE POB SCD Number 819 156 1124 405 25 of students Total 2529 SWM (15 students) and SBR (26 students) courseswere carried out in our Technical University.

3. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Number of teachers and subjects Academic year 2003/2004 Course SBR SWM BSE POB SCD Number 25 12 48 12 1 of teachers Total 98 The courses were conducted at our Technical University by 4 teachers: 2 for SWM and 2 for SBR.

4. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Information flow within the Centre • Four persons work in the Polish BUP Centre • We are in regular, friendly contact every day.

5. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Information flow within the country • The Łódź Centre has contact with participating institutions via e-mail, phone fax and postal services. • Our Centre distributes all course materials in Poland and other Baltic Region countries (Slovakia, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). • We are often asked by young people from other cities – via e-mail – to advise them how to become a BUP student. In such instances we given them contacts to BUP teachers in their cities and universities.

6. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Regular meetings within the centre • The staff of our Centre meets every day to discuss the current problems of BUP program.

7. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Annual national meetings In the year 2004 we did not organise a formal annual national meeting, but teachers of particular courses had a chance to meet at teachers’ conferences in Płock, Ciążeń, Łódź and Kazimierz Dolny.

8. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Homepage http://wipos.p.lodz.pl/bupcentrum/

9. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Good examples from your centre • We distribute course materials by postal services. • We promote BUP, for instance in the first national TV channel. • In April 2005, at the Festival of Science and Art in Łódź, a presentation dedicated to the Baltic University will be made.

10. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 In 2004 the Centre organised the following conferences: • Baltic University Programme Student Conference „Building the Region”, Borki, 14-18.04.2004 • Baltic University Programme Summer School „Strategy of Water and Lake Protection vs. the Baltic Purity”, Mazury Lakes, 26.07-06.08.2004 • Baltic University Programme Sustainable Water Management Teachers Conference, Łódź, 2-4.12.2004 • Baltic University Programme Sustainable Baltic Region Teachers Conference, Kazimierz Dolny, 8-12.12.2004

11. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Problems at the centre / network etc. • Shortage of finances: the BUP activity is partly financed by the Technical University of Łódź. • Lack of sources for promotion. • We are in contact with teachers but the information flow between course teachers and students is beyond our control. • Students often resign in the last moment from summer events organised by BUP Centre and disorganise in this way our work and do not allow other students to participate in these events. • Some BUP teachers do not update their data and we often have problems to get in touch with them.

12. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005 Suggestions on how to solve the problems • All those who are enrolled on the lists of participants of summer events should pay a fee that will be returned at the beginning of the event?

13. Thank you for your attention. BUP Centres meeting, Nitra, 19-22 January 2005