The University of Helsinki coordinates the EU Erasmus+ project “Climate University for Virtual Exchanges” (CLUVEX; 2023-2026; https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex), as a part of Climate University (CU; ) at the University of Helsinki. CLUVEX organizes an interactive online VE Week (with 3 h per day) on Climate Change and Sustainability Science topics for students from European and Eastern European universities mainly from Finland, Denmark, Ukraine, and Armenia.
The next CLUVEX VE Week is organized in online sessions (3 h per day) during 6-8 October 2025, starting at 14:00 PM (Helsinki time, UTC+3). During the VE Week, we will introduce and discuss the latest scientific knowledge on climate change from multidisciplinary perspectives, from natural and social sciences and the arts. VE Weeks are organized in Zoom with up to 500 students. The daily online meetings consist of a series of lectures, demonstrations of the tools for climate related data analysis, discussions and workshopping on individual and collaborative Climate Horizon exercises in small groups of up to 10 students and a designated moderator. The moderator’s central role is to facilitate and guide the international and interdisciplinary interactions, workshopping, and learning online in small groups.
Participating in training for moderators & acting as moderators during VE Week as you will:
- get an internship certificate related to your studies;
- get 2 ECTS credits, issues by the Open University at the University of Helsinki;
- get a possibility to attend online the Climate University selected courses;
- hone your online interaction, pedagogy and language skills in international environment;
- increase your contacts with the CLUVEX network and universities.
Moderators’ Trainings online events (all starting at 14:30 EET/Helsinki time) in Zoom:
TR1 – DD Sep 2025 – Intro. to CLUVEX project, day-by-day programme, DigiCampus
TR2 – DD Sep 2025 – Intro. to Climate Horizon exercise, web-based tools for climate data analysis
TR3 – DD Sep 2025 – Orientation for the 3rd VE Week, questions/ answers
The training includes these 3 online events & independent study of materials in DigiCampus area for moderators.
Register
In order to be registered as the moderator, you must follow 3 obligatory key steps:
STEP1: Register here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/133241/lomakkeet.html – for moderators in Spring 2025
STEP 2: Join the moderators’ mailing list: https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex/?page_id=668
STEP 3: Register as moderator on DigiCampus (see below)
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“MODERATORS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE WEEK ENROLLMENT Digicampus instructions: Registering as a moderator”
Registration deadline is 1 September 2025
After filling in the application form, you will receive email instructions on joining the course on the DigiCampus online learning platform. Contact person: julia.karhumaa(at)helsinki.fi
More information about Virtual Exchange: https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex
Join the moderators’ mailing list: https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/cluvex/?page_id=668
If you are interested in further details of the CLUVEX project, please, contact the CLUVEX team members.
If you are interested to participate the project, please leave your own contact information here and we will get back to you.