{"id":5505,"date":"2026-06-17T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/peex\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=5505"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:49:53","slug":"cluvex-achievements-results-for-january-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/peex\/index.php\/portfolio-items\/cluvex-achievements-results-for-january-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CLUVEX Achievements\/ Results for January – June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Erasmus+ CLUVEX project (July 2023 \u2013 June 2026; https:\/\/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

Since January 2026, the CLUVEX Partners continued actively participate in preparing and distribution\/ promotion of the Call-for-Students<\/a> and Call-for-Moderators<\/a> for the 4th<\/sup> VE Week for students<\/strong> (23-27 February 2026), in organization and carrying out a short series of trainings for new moderators<\/strong> (three online meetings, which focused on topics of: 1st<\/a> on 10 December 2025 – introduction to CLUVEX project, day-by-day programme, DigiCampus; 2nd<\/a> on 5 February 2026 – introduction to Climate Horizon exercise, tools for climate data analysis; and 3rd<\/a> on 11 February – orientation for VE Week, questions\/ answers). The training for new hosts<\/strong><\/a> (1 online meeting on 29 January) was also organized.<\/p>\n

The CLUVEX Partners also actively participated in preparing and distribution\/ promotion of the Call-for-Students<\/a> and Call-for-Moderators<\/a> for the 5th<\/sup> VE Week for students <\/strong>(20-24 April 2026), in organization and carrying out a short series of trainings for new moderators<\/strong> (three online meetings, which focused on topics of: 1st<\/a> on 30 March – introduction to CLUVEX project, day-by-day programme, DigiCampus; 2nd<\/a> on 8 April – introduction to Climate Horizon exercise, tools for climate data analysis; and 3rd<\/a> on 13 April – orientation for VE Week, questions\/ answers). The training for new hosts<\/strong><\/a> (1 online meeting on 10 April) was also organized.<\/p>\n

For the VE Weeks of the last year of the project, the \u00a0preparatory steps<\/strong> included: (1) Announcements for the Call-for-Moderators and for the Call-for-Students actively distributed\/ advertised among students of the CLUVEX project Partners\/ Universities (from Armenia, Denmark, Finland, Ukraine) and other collaborating Universities; (2) Arrangements of online trainings \u201cModerators-Get-Together\u201d for new moderators, which followed similar topics used for moderators in the previous trainings; (3) Arrangements of training for hosts; (4) Improving the Climate Horizon group exercise textbook with instructions as a guide for students and moderators; (5) Updating as necessary the day-by-day programme of the VE Week which included all 8 lectures divided between three days as plenary sessions and daily detailed introduction of the Climate Horizon exercise to participants. It should be noted that after registration in DigiCampus educational platform (hosted by University of Helsinki), all registered participants were granted access for all materials (slides and video-recordings of delivered presentations\/ lectures\/ web-based tools for climate related data visualisation, analysis, and interpretation, and additional materials) from all trainings for reading, repetition, and self-education.<\/p>\n

See summaries<\/strong> of the previous CLUVEX VE Weeks: 1st<\/sup> VE Week<\/a> (October 2024), 2nd<\/sup> VE Week<\/a> (May 2025), \u00a03rd<\/sup> VE Week<\/a> (October 2025), 4th<\/sup> VE Week<\/a> (February 2026), and 5th<\/sup> VE Week<\/a> \u00a0(April 2026).<\/p>\n

The CLUVEX Final-e-Meeting took place on 3rd<\/sup> June<\/a> (only for the CLUVEX Partners) and 16 June<\/a> (open for all participants) 2026.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the CLUVEX project overview and outcomes\/ results of its activities were presented during the Erasmus+ EMPOANDES<\/a> \u201cEmpowering Climate Services in the Andes\u201d (2025-2028) project hybrid kick-off-meeting (Jan 2026); the online Training Session<\/a> (Feb 2026) of the Teaching Resilience and Environmental Democracy (TREnD) Programme (an international initiative designed to support innovative teaching practices in higher education); the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026 (May 2026) as well as at other national events. The work on peer-reviewed manuscripts continued. See also updated CLUVEX promotional materials<\/a> such 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 reported deliverables<\/a> in web-table \u201cDeliverables\u201d of the CLUVEX website.<\/p>\n

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