The CLUVEX project team prepared mid-term report for the 1st reporting period (RP1; 1 Jul 2023 0 31 Dec 2024) and it has been finally submitted to EU on 7 February 2025.
The reporting in web-portal included reporting on completed Deliverables (8 public reports), Milestones (10 archived), Events and Trainings (22 as monthly online meetings of the CLUVEX Partners, kick-off meetings online and hybrid, 1st Virtual Exchange (VE) Week for students, and 6 trainings for moderators), Communication activities (18) and Dissemination activities (39). It also included reporting as a separate document about overview of the progress in the project (summary of work performed and achievements, results and impacts; consortium set-up; update on project teams, staff and experts; consortium management and decision-making; project management, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation strategy; cost effectiveness and financial management; risk management; impact; communication, dissemination and visibility; sustainability and continuation’ and follow-up to EU recommendations) and work done in each WorkPackage (activities, resources, and timing – timetable).
Main results achieved during the RP1 are the following:
- Designed the tailored VE concept, meeting the curricula standards at the UH – Open University for 1 (students) and 3-5 (moderators) ECTS credit points: CLUVEX VE 1 credit point officialised.
- Elaborated educational materials for students and moderators – the Virtual Exchange Guidebook (VEG), Climate Literacy Guidebook (CLG), Climate Messenger Code of Conduct (CMC) guidebooks (D2.1-D2.3); 8 lectures on climate related topics, 3 tools for analysis of climate data included in CLG: all available in DigiCampus, Google Drive, and website.
- Designed and prepared the Climate Horizon group exercise: piloted at 1st VE Week (VE Week); pedagogical analysis in-progress.
- Designed, prepared, implemented, and piloted training program for moderators (D2.4) with educational materials (D3.1): 5 online trainings in May-Sep 2024: TR1 CLUVEX concept, technical skills; TR2 Climate University MOOCs; TR3 Soft skills; TR4 CLUVEX guidebooks, materials; TR5 Climate Horizon group exercise, tools for climate data analysis.
- Educated the first cohort of Moderators (numbers, registered in DigiCampus): 77
- Established a digital e-campus platform DigiCampus for Moderators and for Students with all educational materials, communication chat, instructions to submit study report for ECTS.
- Implemented and piloted the 1st VEW for students (D4.1) (numbers in DigiCampus for students and moderators): registered participants in the Students’ and Moderators’ DigiCampus areas: 429 and 77; with certificates: 247 and 37 (based on active participation); with credits: 114 and 37 (based on submitted reports).
- Collected data using pre- and post-questionaries feedback forms (VE Week, VE concept, pedagogical approach -for peer-reviewed papers): preliminary analysis (34 moderators and 97 students responded).
- Distributed the Call text for 1st VE Week for students in CLUVEX Partners, collaborating universities, networks, introduced the CLUVEX concept in several events, established website, Facebook, LinkedIN.
- Implementation process required active communication between CLUVEX Partners through monthly online meetings (13 in RP1), hosted online (Aug 2023), hybrid (Oct 2023, Finland) kick-off-meetings.
Moreover, see updated CLUVEX promotional materials such as proposal, stages in workflow for VEs, VE Weeks for students and earned bonuses for students, logo, leaflet, banner, poster, project general overview, etc. See also publicly available reported deliverables in web-table “Deliverables”.
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