About BSP

The Baltic Sea Project (BSP) is an international network of UNESCO ASPnet schools working together to build a sustainable future and to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) depicted in United Nation's Agenda 2030.

Objectives 

• To increase the awareness of the students about the environmental problems in the Baltic Sea area and to give them an understanding of the scientific, social and cultural aspects of the interdependence between man and nature.
• To work together and find ways to prevent climate change

• To support the implementation of environmental studies and science in the Baltic Sea region
• To encourage students to participate in building a sustainable future
• To encourage students to learn about our shared history and today civics in Baltic Sea countries
• To learn about the living cultural heritage in the Baltic Sea countries

Practical measures 

• To set up a network of schools and other educational institutions
• To create and develop educational approaches and joint programmes for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED)
• To organize joint projects, activities and events
• To share best practices

Educational approach

• To achieve a balance between a holistic view and individual subject studies
• To change the role of the student from passive recipient to active constructor of knowledge
• To change the role of the teacher from supervisor to guide in a learning process
• To use networks to provide participants with opportunities to learn and pass along new ideas
• To use international cooperation as an inherent element of school work

International collaboration 

Schools in different Baltic Sea countries work together using online tools and learning environments  (eTwinning, Legulus, iNaturalist) to exchange ideas and collaborate in learning projects. Partner countries are Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia and Finland.

Coordinating organizations and schools can also start eTwinning, Erasmus+ or Nordplus projects built on the above mentioned themes.

To join the Baltic Sea Project network, please contact your national coordinator. You are welcome! You can find their contact information here: https://unesco-bsp.blogspot.com/p/coordinators.html

Coordination of BSP

There is a national coordinator or coordinators in each participating country. At least once a year the coordinators meet to evaluate the project and to plan future activities.

The general coordinator is responsible for contacts among the countries, organizing meetings and seminars/webinars and suggesting development initiatives.

Finland started the project with Ms. Liisa Jääskeläinen as general coordinator from 1990 to 1993.

At the moment the coordination is back in the hands of Finland and Ms. Aira Undén-Selander from 2019 - 2021.