The 1st day, 6th October 2025, of the CLUVEX 3rd Virtual Exchange (VE) Week successfully completed. It is held from 6th to 10th October 2025. The VE Week is hosted by Maher Sahyoun from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark and Yulian Braychevskyy from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Ukraine. A total of 304 students and other professionals have registered for the VE Week on the DigiCampus platform for students. The three CLUVEX trainings “Moderators-Get-Together” were caried out in September 2025 (TR1 – 42 participants including 13 new persons, TR2 -37, and TR3 – 37). A total of 41 moderators have registered for the VE Week on the DigiCampus platform for moderators.
On 6th October, on the opening day, 233 participants attended the VE Week in Zoom. The majority (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 Egypt, Iran, Italy, Romania, Spain, USA, Vietnam, and others.
Majority of students (53%) are earning/or earned Bachelor’s degree, 23% – Master’s students, 11% – PhD students, 3% – PostDocs, and 10% – others. The 34% of participants have background in natural sciences, 32% – social and humanitarian, 14% – economical, 2% – art sciences background as well as 18% – in other fields such as computer and data sciences, informatics, applied mathematics, geology, architecture, cultural anthropology, international business management, international economic relations, circular economy engineering, tourism and recreation, artist and critical media, 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: Utopian Pedagogy”, 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; “Impacts of Climate Change and Future Outlook” 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 online met each other for the first time in small groups (in total of about 41 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.
See participants of the 1st Day of the 3rd VE Week.
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