Baltic University Urban Forum Goes Integrated

The 20 cities and 20 other partners in the project Baltic University Urban Forum have taken part in 9 Best Practice workshops in the 9 out of the 10 themes during the project period of one and a half year. The theme still to be addressed is the Waste Management and this will be done during the BUUF seminar on October 30, in Turku.

Apart from organising Best Practice seminars the project activities are to review the cities' sustainability plans, monitor the improvements through indicators, produce benchmarking reports and 10 guidebooks. An advisory BUUF seminar which was held in Orebro in September. The man cycling is Mr Lars Ryden from Uppsala University, the leader of the Baltic University Programme council with scholars representing all the themes will support this process. During 2005 the project focus will be on the monitoring of the progresses but also the organisation of integrated seminars addressing a number of themes for example waste, waste water and energy management.

The project is coordinated by a steering committee at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, in which BUP and UBC EnvCom as well as the municipality of Nacka takes part. UBC EnvCom coordinates the work on the sustainability indicators and coordinates the project with European projects on the topic.