{"id":5030,"date":"2025-06-18T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/peex\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=5030"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:22:24","slug":"cluvex-after-mid-term-reporting-to-eu","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/peex\/index.php\/portfolio-items\/cluvex-after-mid-term-reporting-to-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"CLUVEX after Mid-Term Reporting to EU: Achievements\/ Results for January \u2013 June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Erasmus+ CLUVEX project (July 2023 \u2013 June 2026;\u00a0https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/cluvex<\/a>) continues steps for organization and carrying out the Virtual Exchanges (VE) or so-called the VE Weeks for students from the CLUVEX Partners\u2019 Universities (Yerevan State University, Armenia; \u00a0Mechnikov\u2019s Odessa National University, Ukraine; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and BioArt Society, Finland; and the coordinator \u2013 University of Helsinki, Finland), other collaborating Universities in these countries, as well as other European, Neighbourhood East, and NIS countries.<\/p>\n

The CLUVEX project successfully reported to EU after 18 months of work (covering period from July 2023 until December 2024) with providing information about outcomes\/ achievements\/ results (see\u00a0summary<\/a>). Since January 2025, the CLUVEX Partners actively participated in preparing and distribution\/ promotion of the\u00a0Call-for-Students<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Call-for-Moderators<\/a>\u00a0for the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0VE Week, in organization and carrying out a short series of\u00a0trainings for new moderators<\/strong>\u00a0(three online meetings, which focused on topics of:\u00a01st<\/a>\u00a0on 27 March \u2013 introduction to CLUVEX project, day-by-day programme, DigiCampus;\u00a02nd<\/a>\u00a0on 15 April \u2013 introduction to Climate Horizon exercise, tools for climate data analysis; and\u00a03rd<\/a>\u00a0on 30 April \u2013 orientation for VE Week, questions\/ answers). The\u00a0training for new hosts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1 online meeting on 28 April) was also organized. Finally, the\u00a02nd<\/sup>\u00a0VE Week for students<\/strong>\u00a0took place online during 12-16 May 2025 (see\u00a0summary\/ details<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Call for the CLUVEX 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Virtual Exchanges for Students (3rd<\/sup>\u00a0VE Week for students<\/strong>, 8-10 October 2025) has been announced in mid-Jun 2025 (opened on 11th<\/sup>\u00a0June & closed on 26th<\/sup>\u00a0September \u2013 for students & opened on 13th<\/sup>\u00a0June & closed on 1st<\/sup>\u00a0September \u2013 for moderators), and information is actively distributed\/ advertised among students of the CLUVEX project Partners\/ Universities (from Armenia, Denmark, Finland, Ukraine) and other collaborating Universities. After the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0VE Week completed, the\u00a0preparatory steps<\/strong>\u00a0for the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0VE Week started. These included: (1) Announcements for the\u00a0Call-for-Students<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Call-for-Moderators<\/a>\u00a0for new VE Week in Autumn 2025; (2) Arrangement of trainings for new moderators, which will take place online on 8, 15 and 22 September which will follow similar topics used for moderators in Spring 2025; (3) Arrangement of training for hosts, which will take place at the end of September; (4) Improving the Climate Horizon group exercise textbook as a guide for students and moderators; (5) Updating the day-by-day programme of the VE Week which includes now all 8 lectures divided between two days as plenary sessions and daily detailed introduction of the Climate Horizon exercise to participants. It should be noted that after registration of moderators in DigiCampus educational platform (hosted by University of Helsinki), all moderators are granted access for all materials (slides and video-recordings of delivered presentations\/ lectures\/ web-based tools for climate related data visualisation and analysis, and additional materials) from all trainings for reading, repetition, and self-education.<\/p>\n

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The CLUVEX project Mid-Term hybrid meeting took place on 22-23 May 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. Representatives from all the CLUVEX Partners\/Teams, members of the Expert and Student Advisory Boards, Associated Members attended the meeting onsite\/ online. In total, 26 persons attended the event, incl. 8 persons online. At this meeting (see more details<\/a>) the discussions about the dates for the remaining CLUVEX VE Weeks took place and agreed dates are: 3rd \u2013 6-10 Oct 2025, 4th \u2013 23-27 Feb 2026, and 5th \u2013 20-24 Apr 2026.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Moreover, the CLUVEX project overview and outcomes\/ results of its activities were presented at the 2nd International Conference on \u201cClimate Service \u2013 Science and Education\u201d (16-18 April 2025, Odessa, Ukraine), 4th Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center Impact Week (22-25 April 2025, Helsinki, Finland), European Geosciences Union General Assembly (27 April -2 May 2025, Vienna, Austria), as well as at national events in Armenia and Ukraine. The work on peer-reviewed manuscripts is in progress. See also updated CLUVEX\u00a0promotional materials<\/a>\u00a0such as proposal, stages in workflow for VEs, VE Weeks for students and earned bonuses for students, logo, leaflet, banner, poster, project general overview, etc. & see also publicly available\u00a0reported deliverables<\/a>\u00a0in web-table \u201cDeliverables\u201d of the CLUVEX website.<\/p>\n

Text by: Hanna K. Lappalainen, Alexander Mahura, UHEL-INAR<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>