The programme strives since its foundation in 1991 to find novel ways of interaction among universities by promoting openness, internationalization and mobility.
The main aim is to support building strong regional educational and research communities.
The participating universities are located in countries that fully or partly lays within the Drainage basin area of the Baltic Sea, and includes the countries of Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Ukraine.
After a few years, the broadcast were made not only from Sweden and Uppsala but from all countries around the Baltic Sea, from Visby, Åbo/Turku, and St Petersburg, to Gdansk and Berlin, and there were as well space bridges.
The satellite in the middle is a reflection of connecting and enlightening the people in the Baltic Sea Region.