Dear friends, Please find the enclosed information regarding the BUP summer activities. We kindly request you to send this message to all BUP teachers in your country and ask them to send the names of their students back to you by May 28. (DEADLINE) We then look forward to receive your lists at the Secretariat by June 1. Please pay special attention to the students' knowledge of English. It is important that they are able to communicate, discuss, give presentations etc, not to mention to partake in all the social activities. On Chopin a good knowledge of English is of great importance, because a weak language command could become a security risk for everyone on board.

Travel costs to and from the Mazury Lakes and Vistula Spit summer activities will be reimbursed for students from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

There will be NO TRAVEL reimbursement to and from Chopin.

With best sunny wishes to all of you - Maria :-)))) The Baltic University Programme Student activities, summer 2007 Preliminary information

The Baltic University Programme will arrange this summer three different activities for students:

    - Summer cruise on board the sailing ship Fryderyk Chopin (24 June - 6

July)

    - Summer cruise  on Mazury Lakes, Poland (14 - 27 July)

    - Workshop ³Vistula River ­ ecology, culture, environment², Vistula Spit, Piaski, Poland (17 ­ 22 September) With this letter we have the pleasure to invite students from all universities in the Baltic University Programme network to apply for participation and to wish them a summer full of adventures with the Baltic University Programme.

Place and time:

- Summer cruise  on Mazury Lakes, Poland, 14 - 27 July The cruise will be organized by the BUP in cooperation with the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, which partly finance it. Of 22 available student places, 4 goes to the students from the Technical University of Lodz, the remaining 18 places to BUP students.The cruise starts in Gizycko and goes through the whole Mazury Lake District. The Technical University of Lodz will serve as a hosting institution with Dr Zdzislaw Bartczak from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering as the main organizer.

Accommodation will be on board comfortable tourist yachts Tango (five crew members + steersman on board each), or in tents.

Number of student places - 22.

- Summer cruise on board  Fryderyk Chopin, Baltic Sea, 24 June ­ 6 July The cruise will start in Kiel, Germany and end with the prestigious sailing event, Tall Ship Racing starting this year in Aarhus/Denmark (see http://www.visiteurope.com/ccm/experience/events/detail/?nav_cat=200&lang=en

_US&item_url=/NTO-Denmark/harmonise_events/tall-ships-race.en). Travel to Kiel and back from Aarhus will be arranged by a bus starting and ending in Warszawa, Poland.

Number of places - 30 students and 7 teachers.

- Workshop on River cultures, Vistula Spit, Piaski, Poland, 17 ­ 22 September The workshop will be organized and financed by the State High School in Elblag with Dr Agata Rychter as the main organizer. It will take place on a Vistula Spit in a small village Piaski close to Krynica Morska.

Number of places - 30 students and 5 teachers.

The programme

Each summer activity has a scientific programme, to which a detailed programme will be sent out later.  Additionally each student should prepare a presentation (about 30 min), which has a Baltic Sea Regional dimension. It should also include aspects of sustainable development (regional or local) and  focus on, for instance, a country presentation,  a cultural or environmental case-study etc. Students should also be prepared to comment and discuss the presentations.

In order to facilitate the planning of the programme the students are asked to indicate the title of the presentation in the registration form.

Teachers are kindly asked to check the students´ presentations in advance.

Selection of students

The summer activities are intended  as a reward for the most active students of the Baltic University Programme. Teachers are asked to choose students, list them according to priority and send the list to their national center, not later than May 28, 2007.

Students who have studied any of the BUP courses and those coming from the universities which signed the inter-university contracts with the BUP are welcome to apply. Please note that all activities will be carried out using the English language. Teachers should therefore pay special attention to the students´ skills in speaking and writing English. Additionally and due to security reasons, a good command of English is obligatory on Chopin.

Teachers taking part in the Chopin cruise will be asked to give a lecture to the students and help with the seminars on board.

18 student places for the Mazury Lakes summer cruise are distributed among the countries as follows:

Poland    3               NW Russia (St Pb Centre)   1

Kaliningrad  1         Belarus 2              Estonia 1

Latvia 1                 Lithuania 1                Slovak 1

Ukraine 1                  Sweden 2                 Finland 1

Denmark 1               Germany 1               Czech R. 1

30 student places on Chopin cruise and Vistula River workshop are distributed among the countries as follows:

Poland    4              NW Russia (St Pb Centre)   2

Kaliningrad  1        Belarus 3             Estonia 2

Latvia 2                Lithuania 2            Slovak R. 2

Ukraine 2                 Sweden 2           Czech R. 2

Denmark 2              Germany 2          Finland 2

If a country does not fill up its places, they will be divided among the others.

Costs for participation

The Baltic University Programme will cover all expenses for the participants (students and teachers) during the summer activities.

All participants are expected to cover their own travel costs to and from Chopin.

However, students from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will also have their travel costs reimbursed (by the cheapest possible way of transportation,

please!) to the summer cruise on Mazury Lakes and Vistula River workshop.

Please notice that all students are obligate to send in the course registration form - below:

COURSE REGISTRATION FORM for (Chopin/Mazury Lakes/Vistula Spit - please

indicate!)

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1. First name

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2. Surname

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3. All information required for visa a application (date and place of birth, pass nr + authority, date of issue, and date of expiration, home address,

etc)

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4. Contact address

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tel. no ...................... fax. no

...............................mobile..............................

e-mail .............................................................

5. Attended course name (POB, BSE, SBR, SWM, SCD)

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6. Presently studies at  (name of the teacher, university, faculty,

department)

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7. Knowledge of English (good, very good?)

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8. Title of presentation/poster

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Questions for students and teachers applying for Chopin: (please specify your answers)

9. Sailing experience if any

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10.  Offshore (open sea) sailing experience

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11. Tall ship sailing experience

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Aplikację proszę składać do Centrum Uniwersytetu Bałtyckiego w Politechnice Łódzkiej

Adres e-mail: baltlodz@wipos.p.lodz.pl