The 1st day, 23rd February 2026, of the CLUVEX 4th Virtual Exchange (VE) Week successfully completed. It is held from 23rd to 27th February 2026. The VE Week is hosted by Mykyta Rozvod from the Mechnikov’s Odessa National University (ONU), Ukraine and Hasmik Vardumyan from the Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia. A total of 230 students and other professionals have registered for the VE Week on the DigiCampus platform for students (427 students as pre-registered). The three CLUVEX trainings “Moderators-Get-Together” were caried out during December 2025 – February 2026 (TR1 – 40 participants including 9 new persons, TR2 -38, and TR3 – 20). In total, 36 moderators have registered for the VE Week on the DigiCampus platform for moderators.
On 23rd February, on the opening day, 174 participants attended the VE Week in Zoom. The majority (41%) of participating students were from Ukraine. The remaining participants are from Finland, Armenia, and Denmark (34% in total) well as also some students attended from outside the CLUVEX Partners’ countries such as Jordan (19%) and others (about 7%) from Egypt, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, and others.
Majority of students (49%) are earning/or earned Bachelor’s degree, 31% – Master’s students, 6% – PhD students, 4% – PostDocs, and 10% – others. The 45% of participants have background in natural sciences, 31% – social and humanitarian, 3% – economical, 3% – art sciences background as well as 17% – in other fields such as computer science and engineering, information technology and information systems; Earth, natural, soil, agricultural and environmental sciences; chemistry, geography, psychology, philology, food sciences, geology, biology; architecture, geodesy and land management, water resources and environmental engineering, international tourism management, power machinery, human science, foreign languages; electrical and mechanical, industrial, and meteorology engineering; medicine and biomedical systems engineering; international economic relationship and political sciences, international relations, public administration, law, religious sciences, 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 “Impacts of Climate Change and Future Outlook” by Prof. Hasmik Movsesyan, Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia; “Climate Change, Disasters, Carbon-neutrality and UN Sustainable Development Goals” by Prof. Alexander Baklanov, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark; 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 24 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 4th VE Week.
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