CLUVEX Main Aim
to bridge students from European and Neighbourhood East universities and to engage them with climate competences e.g., ideas of adaptation and mitigation to climate change and the green agenda together with interdisciplinary/ green/ soft skills.
CLUVEX Main Activity – Virtual Exchange
is the interactive on-line courses including traditional education materials in a way that students, professors and teaching assistants will work together in small groups. The VE will take place in small groups discussing specific topics of climate change.
CLUVEX Foundation, Implementation and Networking
Project builds on atmospheric sciences research and existing virtual on-line platform called “Climate University” developed and hosted by the University of Helsinki (coordinator). The Climate University has been already piloted since 2018 in 25 higher education institutions in Finland. VE activities will be integrated into interactive Climate University higher education e-courses involving 2500 higher education participants.
Project novelty is that the art & science partner BioArt Society will introduce artistic perspectives on how contemporary art aims to contribute to the public climate change discourse in the form of VE lectures and creative exercises.
Project will be implemented on a 50% basis so that half of participants come from universities of Denmark and Finland e.g., European universities and the other half from Ukraine and Armenia universities (as Neighbourhood East countries). All the partners bring their technical tools together with pedagogical expertise for designing new VE interaction between students.
Project will use its networks like Una Europa, an alliance of 11 European universities, World Meteorological Organization’s Global Campus initiative, in Europe and Neighbourhood East to attract other participants on a diversity basis.
Major Outcome
is nurturing the generation of young Climate Messengers competent in building climate awareness and sustainability strategies in their home organisations and future work life. The project has a high momentum in the post COVID19 situation, where we do not know how soon face-to-face communication will be normalised and sustainability of travelling is questioned in a world aiming at carbon neutrality. Thus, the VE cooperation complements the ongoing physical mobility opportunities in the field of climate change research and the ensemble of political decisions and issues, where Neighbourhood East has an especially important role in a global scale and new Climate Messengers could be much needed expertise in labour markets.
Main Objectives
(1) to bridge and bring together students from European and Neighbourhood East countries universities and engage them with climate competences and soft skills;
(2) to develop and design a new, tailored Virtual Exchange concept for climate education and training;
(3) to educate new facilitators and moderators with climate competences and soft skills for Virtual Exchange;
(4) to educate university students to act as Climate Messengers in society;
(5) to upscale and distribute information on Virtual Exchange as a powerful tool bring students together from across wide geographical distances.
WorkPackages (WPs)
WP1 – Management and Quality Assurance (lead – UH-INAR)
WP2 – Preparatory Work for Virtual Exchange (lead – OSENU)
WP3 – Staff Training for Virtual Exchange (lead – TSNUK)
WP4 – Implementation for Virtual Exchange (lead – UCPH)
WP5 – Dissemination, Visibility and Sustainability (lead – YSU)
Deliverables
| Deliverable No | Deliverable Name | Work Package No | Lead Beneficiary | Type | Dissemination Level | Due Date | Description |
| D1.1 | CLUVEX project e-platform | 1 | UH | DEC | PU | M02 | Website (public and intranet) / English |
| D1.2 | Project meetings and reports, financial and contractual tasks | 1 | UH | R | PU | M06, M12, M18, M26, M34, M36 | Minutes of kick-off, mid-term and final meetings ( English), project reports, Consortium Agreement, |
| D1.3 | CLUVEX Monitoring Strategy & Quality Assurance Plan and Reports on quality assurance | 1 | UH | R | PU | M03 + regular updates | QA Plan and measures determined in the Monitoring & QA Plan with regular updates |
| D2.1 | Virtual Exchange Guidebook (VEG) | 2 | OSENU | R | PU | M06 | Format: digital (pdf) Language: EN, Partners national Volume: at least 20 pages |
| D2.2 | Climate Literacy Guidebook (CLG) | 2 | OSENU | R | PU | M09 | Format: digital (pdf) Language: EN, Partners national Volume: at least 20 pages Format: digital (pdf) Language: EN, Partners national |
| D2.3 | Climate Messenger Code of Conduct (CMC) | 2 | OSENU | R | PU | M09 | Format: digital (pdf) Language: EN, Partners national Volume: at least 20 pages |
| D2.4 | Training programs/ syllabi | 2 | OSENU | R | PU | M12 | Online, EN |
| D2.5 | e-Living Annex to the Virtual Exchange Guidebook | 2 | OSENU | DEM, DATA | PU | M12, M18 | Online, EN |
| D3.1 | Set of online tutorials/ recordings for the CLUVEX trainings and course modules | 3 | TSNUK | R | PU | M12, M15, M18 | Electronic format, EN/Partners languages |
| D3.2 | Online tutorial on soft-skills development and digital didactics for VE learning | 3 | TSNUK | R | PU | M24 | Electronic format, EN/ Partners languages, 20 pages |
| D4.1 | Initial test of the Climate University’s pilot course | 4 | UH | DEM | PU | M18 | a unit of measurement: number of students participated passed the online course(s) and tailored VE exercises having “Climate Messenger” certificate |
| D4.2 | Participation of CLUVEX partner universities’ students to VE & Climate University course | ‘4 | OSENU | R | PU | M30 | a unit of measurement: number of students participated passed the online course(s) and tailored VE exercises having “Climate Messenger” certificate |
| D5.1 | Dissemination strategy (public and internal) with Brandbook and dissemination materials as an annex | 5 | OSENU | R | PU | M03 (for dissemination strategy) M03 (for digital materials) M18, M36 (for physical materials) | Dissemination Strategy Format: online (pdf), available on the Internal Communication e-Platform Brandbook is annex to the Dissemination Strategy, includes logo, colour scheme, templates Language: English, volume: at least 15 pages (Strategy) + links to templates, presentations, loho, etc Dissemination Materials Format digital: info posters, banners, visual imagery, audio (interviews, jingle, ringtone) physical (analog): badges, T-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, pens, etc. Language: EN/ Partners languages |
| D5.2 | Sustainability strategy | 5 | YSU | R | PU | M33 | Format: digital (pdf) Language: English Volume: at least 30 pages |
List of participating organisations
| # | Participating Organisation Legal Name | Short name | Country | Role |
| 1 | HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO | HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO | FI | Coordinator |
| 2 | ODESSA STATE ENVIRONMENTAL UNIVERSITY | OSENU | UA | Partner |
| 3 | TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV | TSNUK | UA | Partner |
| 4 | YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | YSU | AM | Partner |
| 5 | KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET | UCPH | DK | Partner |
| 6 | SUOMEN BIOTAITEEN SEURA RY | FBAS | FI | Partner |
