Kick off for Baltic Urban University Forum

During the three-day conference, 4-6 September in the lovely city of Stockholm, 60 city representatives and scholars from 20 cities around the Baltic Sea gathered with the purpose of launching the BUUF project. One of the main purposes of the seminar was to tie closer links between the cities and to start the planning for the up-coming 20 Best Practice seminars that will be held in the project. During the three-year period every city in the project will arrange one seminar on one of the ten themes in the project. The first two seminars coming up is Water management in Enkoping (6-7 Sept) and Greenery and Culture in Kaunas (9-12 Oct). During the seminar Folke Snickars, Dean of Royal Institute of Technology and Joachim Spangenberg from SERI held excellent lectures and gave some good food for thought to the participants. The purpose of the BUUF project is to learn from each other's good practices at the seminars and to monitor the proceedings through a set of indicators developed in the project. An advisory board consisting of approximately 50 scholars from the whole region will guide the whole process. The task of the board is also to produce 10 Best Practice reports presenting the good practices within the themes.