The 1st day, 12th May 2025, of the CLUVEX 2nd Virtual Exchange (VE) Week successfully completed. It is held from 12th to 16th May 2025. The VE Week is hosted by Maher Sahyoun from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark and Mykota Rozvod from the Mechnikov National University (ONU), Ukraine. A total of 376 students and other professionals have registered for the VE Week on the DigiCampus platform for students. The 3 CLUVEX moderators’ trainings (TR1 – 52 participants, TR2 – 40, and TR3 – 32) were completed in spring (March-April 2025), and these were attended by about 40 moderators, on average, including 12 new persons.
On 12th May, on the opening day, almost 200 participants attended the VE Week in Zoom. The majority (more than 60%) of participating students were from Ukraine. The remaining participants are from Finland, Armenia and Denmark, as well as also some students (about 10%) attended from outside the CLUVEX Partners’ countries such as China, France, Italy, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Romania. Majority of students (63%) are earning/or earned the Bachelor’s degree. The 38% of students have background in natural sciences, 30% – social and humanitarian, 10% – economical, 1% – art sciences background as well as 21% – in other fields such as mechanics, linguistics, environmental sciences, geology, law, etc.
The VE Week was opened with Welcome words from the hosts, and short introductions into the CLUVEX project and the Climate Horizon exercise. The plenary session was opened with the invited presentation of Prof. Antti Rajala, University of Helsinki, titled ” Towards Sustainable Future Utopia: Pedagogy of Concrete Utopias”, and it was followed by other lectures such as “Climate Change, Disasters, Carbon-neutrality and UN Sustainable Development Goals” by Prof. Alexander Baklanov, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark; “Сlimate Change Impact on Water Resources” by Prof. Sergiy Snizhko, Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Ukraine; “Nature Hazards – Floods” by Prof. Valeriya Ovcharuk, Mechnikov Odessa National University (ONU), Ukraine; “Climate Change, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies” by Prof. Hasmik Movsesyan, Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia; and “Artistic Research and Critical Thinking at the Intersection of Art, Science and Society” by Yvonne Billimore, Bioart Society, Finland.
After the plenary session with lectures, the VE Week participants also met each other for the first time in small groups (in total of 39 small groups of 1 moderator plus up to 10 students) in zoom break-out-rooms. In these rooms, each group had a round table introduction of participants, followed by discussions on: what we have learned from lectures delivered? what we can learn from each other? and initial steps in developing Personal/Individual and Collaborative/Joint Climate Horizon exercise.
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