The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) has opened applications for its 2026 Summer University, which will run from 2 to 8 August at the Knivsberg Educational Centre in Denmark. The second edition of the programme examines the changing relationship between national majorities and minorities across the Baltic Sea Region.
The course focuses on three settings: the Danish-German border area, the Baltic States, and the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. Using the host border region as a “living laboratory”, participants explore reconciliation, conflict transformation and societal resilience, and produce podcasts engaging with the historical and political narratives of multi-ethnic societies.
The programme is open to bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students from a range of disciplines, with a maximum of 35 places and working languages of German and English. Applications close on 1 July 2026, with priority given to students from partner institutions including the universities of Marburg, Kiel, Flensburg, Southern Denmark, and the Bialystok branch in Vilnius.
The link to BalticWind’s core coverage is contextual rather than technical: energy security in the region rests on the same societal resilience and cross-border cooperation the course addresses. Stable, trusting relationships across Baltic borders underpin the joint infrastructure and security commitments that the energy transition depends on.
