The final day, 16th May 2025, of the CLUVEX 2nd Virtual Exchange (VE) Week successfully completed, and it means that the entire VE Week was also successfully completed. Congratulations to All Participants! This VE Week during 5 days was hosted by Maher Sahyoun from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark and Mykyta Rozvod from the Mechnikov National University (ONU), Ukraine.
On 16th May, on the firth day of the VE Week, about 150 participants attended in Zoom. The Poll of the day showed that among the most rewarding parts of the CLUVEX VE Week, participants chose (single choice): meeting with other students – 16%, learning about the climate change – 17%, new ideas and perspectives – 17%, getting international experience – 28%, working with different tools – 22%, and nice polls at start of each day – 1%. As seen, many participants (50% in total) chose getting “international experience” collaborating with students from different countries and “working with different tools” for climate related data visualization, analysis and interpretation.
From the beginning of the last day, after welcome word from Hosts and reminder about the Collaborative Climate Horizon exercise, all participants were redistributed into the same small groups (with the moderator) in zoom break-out-rooms as on the previous days to continue and finalize during about 2 hours online discussions in groups; to present for members of own group the personal/individual Climate Horizons developed based on lectures delivered on the first day and tools for visualisation, analysis and interpretation of climate relate data such as the ERA-5 Past Climate Explorer (PCE), the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), and the IPCC Web-based Atlas – all demonstrated during previous three consecutive days; and to prepare, using the Miro-Board, the group’s collaborative Climate Horizon exercise based on contributions from all members of the group.
During the last hour, after returning to the main Zoom room, the hosts provided a summary of the session. A final feedback questionnaire was distributed among the students who attended the 2nd VE Week. The hosts shared online with all participants the collaborative Climate Horizons of groups on common Miro-board (https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVI7rWdBw=/).
At the end, reminder by Laura Riuttanen (Univ Helsinki, UH) about the Climate University (https://www.climateuniversity.fi) courses, which are available now for students successfully completed this VE Week & reminder by Aleksi Vauhkonen (UH) about personal (by students and by moderators) reports to the DigiCampus for obtaining the ECTS credits.
Moreover, on daily basis, the questionnaire for the moderators (by Laura Riuttanen, UH) was also released at the end of each day to understand situation in each group working online & the polls of the day (by Mikko Kulmala, UH) for participants at the beginning of each day. The hosts and members of the CLUVEX Partners/Teams actively moved between the zoom break-out-rooms and assisted groups to solve issues with web-based tools, Miro-board, communication, etc. Technically, the Zoom communication platform was provided/ hosted by UH & the Miro-board (as collaborative platform) and the DigiCampus (as educational platform) were actively utilized in the 2nd VE Week for students.
Thanks to All Participants of the 2nd VE Week for exiting and productive work!
We are also looking forward to seeing some participants/students who would like to serve as new moderators (earning more ECTS credits) during the 3rd VE Week in autumn of 2025.
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