This event is an opportunity for PhD students to become better acquainted with other academic perspectives. The participants are offered training in interdisciplinary research cooperation with the guidance of an international group of senior scientists. The PhD Students Training takes place on 23-27 November 2026 at Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland.

The objective of this training is to give PhD students from BUP participating universities the possibility to meet and discuss scientific problems with a focus on sustainable development in an interdisciplinary, international, multicultural, and regional context. In this way, students will also get the opportunity to become acquainted with other universities and their scientific traditions.

The program of the training includes: lectures, workshops, students’ presentations of PhD work, and individual consultancies of the PhD thesis with international experts.

The event is hosted and organised by the Lodz University of Technology, in collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz University and the BUP Coordinating Secretariat in Uppsala.