Dr. Yuliana Lavrysh, Head of the Department of English for Engineering at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, will discuss the challenges for her to teach and her students to learn under war circumstances.  We will discuss this with Yuliana and how the universities and international partnerships should collaborate to promote an Education for Peace in the future.

The talk will take place through Zoom on the 16th of May at 1500 CET. To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/WYLntRo18WDPJX6i7

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/ldm4Z9vPAT0?si=2XLEkE6IKN8BYYD3 

Kateryna Boichenko, research collaborator at Web2Learn ( (https://web2learn.eu/) will discuss the challenges the business and education sector faces in Ukraine. How the international partnerships can contribute?  

This online session will take place on the 23rd of May at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:    https://forms.gle/UdkX5xdr7uKA6s8c9

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/asWdnBWCrt0

Dr. Hillel Eyal and Dr. Noga Gulst , will provide a dialogue. This is a dialogue between two lecturers on academic teaching and learning during wartime. The two participants will share their experiences and insights on maintaining a vibrant and enriching academic environment in the face of conflict, disruption, and out-of-zone practices needed. The conversation will cover a wide range of topics, including:

The challenges and opportunities of teaching and learning in wartime

• The impact of conflict on students, faculty, and staff

• Strategies for maintaining academic quality and rigor

• The role of universities in promoting peace and understanding

• The future of higher education in conflict zones

This online session will take place on the 6th of June at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:    

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/j7ehDIJvAFs 

Dr. Haim Sperber will discuss the religious and cultural aspects of war in regional conflicts. The lecture will examine the impact of religion on conflict in 20th—and 21st-century ethnic and political conflicts, using the Ireland/Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine conflicts as case studies. It will also discuss the impact of education and educational agencies on these conflicts.

This online session will take place on the 13th of June at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:    

About the speaker: Dr. Haim Sperber is a senior lecturer in Jewish History at Western Galilee College and Head of the Multidisciplinary department. His main research topics are Agunot in Jewish Society 1851-1914, 19th-century Anglo-Jewish leadership, the English Chief Rabbinate in the 19th century, and Jewish Philanthropy.

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/tT78kgl-QLQ

Dr. Prof. Leehu Zysberg will discuss the impact of Education for the students' well being during war situation taking as an example what happens in Northern Israel. He will discuss with us the points where the education has failed to bring communities from different cultural, historical and ethnical background closer and be able to communicate instread of fighting. 

This online session will take place on the 13th of June at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:    

About the speaker: 

Prof.  Leehu Zysberg is a professor of education and psychology at Gordon College of Education. His interests focus mainly on organizational and leadership issues in educational settings, emotional aspects of everyday life, and the psychology of social behavior

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/tT78kgl-QLQ

Galyna Tabunshchyk is a Professor of the Software Tools Department at the National University "Of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic" in Ukraine. She will share with us her experience of moving away from her university and working at different European institutions because of the war. She will describe to us how it is to coordinate an Erasmus+ CBHE project, with her Ukrainian partners being scattered over the EU and providing online lessons to their students.

This online session will take place on the 20th of June, at 1500 CET. 

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/uuDIiQizw5Y  

Stefania Oikonomou, research collaborator at Web2Learn ( (https://web2learn.eu/), will discuss with us the impact of citizen science in war zones. How can the international collaboration contribute?  

This online session will take place on the 27th of June at 1500 CET.  To receive the link you need to register here:    https://forms.gle/jxj8oTRU3ESjsQGc7 

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/hPTAHJVJFJE 

Dr. Sara HABIBI, expert in United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Peace Division, in Geneva.  She is deployed by the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding, appointed by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Sara has more than 20 years’ peacebuilding experience as a capacity-building specialist, researcher, regional expert, strategy designer, policy advisor and implementation coordinator. Sara has designed and implemented peacebuilding educational initiatives in partnership with UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, GIZ, SDC, ForumZFD's Academy for Conflict Transformation, Educational for Peace International, the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and other NGOs. She has also taught graduates and undergraduates at the Universities of Cambridge, Basel and Neuchatel. Sara is a frequently invited speaker in research, policy and practice fora. As a practitioner, she has led and supported peacebuilding initiatives in collaboration with communities civil society organizations, universities, think-tanks, government agencies, and international organisations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus, Colombia, Mexico, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

This online session will take place on the 4th of July at 1500 CET.  

To watch it again:  https://youtu.be/vx6d0dqAidI 

Ms. Michaela Fenakel Fiedelman and Ms. Yael Caplin, from Hadassah College in Jerusalem, Israel, will give a talk entitled: 'When Textbooks Aren't Enough: How Simulated Conflicts Helped Prepare Academic Staff for Teaching during Wartime' 

The student population at the HAC in Jerusalem is highly diverse, and includes Jewish and Arab students who study together side by side. The events of October 7th 2023 and the subsequent war caused high tensions between Jews and Arabs and raised the question how to teach in a multicultural classroom during wartime.

In order to equip the lecturers with tools to cope with extreme situations that could develop in the classroom, a simulation workshop was developed, in which the lecturers experienced dealing with realistic scenarios based on actual cases that had occurred in the past in the College. The simulations were carried out with professional actors, who portrayed Jewish and Arab students who were affected by the war and were returning to a mixed classroom. The experiential learning in the workshop proved to be impactful, with a long-lasting effect.

Michaela (Micky) Fenakel Fiedelman is the Founder and Director of the Center for Development of Quality Instruction at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.

She specializes in adult education, SBL (Simulation-Based Learning), LLL (Lifelong Learning) and instructional design. She develops and facilitates training sessions and workshops about various subjects, including online teaching, student-centered learning, building course sites that enhance student learning, and improving interpersonal communication skills.

Yael Caplin is a Diversity Officer at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, where she facilitates and develops projects to address the complexities arising on a multi-cultural campus. These include: training for administrative staff; teaching tools for academic staff to create active learning and more interaction between the students; facilitating  peer learning groups for different levels of management in the College . 

For over 15 years she worked in the Third Sector developing volunteer and training programs in a number of countries around the world, including: Singapore, Cyprus, India and Israel.

This online session will take place on the 14th of November at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here: https://forms.gle/pCB67dVfarfxT9eN9

The Video Recordings: https://youtu.be/Kte3u2jW_0s     

Vera Cevriz Nisic, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo. 

This online session will take place on the 21st of November at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/tt71bYWGDibagyVJ9   

The Video Recordings: 

https://youtu.be/PXv2A2gydm0  

Terrence Lyons, Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA, and Agnieszka Paczynska Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA

This online session will take place on the 19th of December at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/qA9azahCWSzhBeWF6    

The Video Recordings:

https://youtu.be/W1DVUKgQkMk 

Terrence Lyons, Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA, and Agnieszka Paczynska Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA

This online session will take place on the 19th of December at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/qA9azahCWSzhBeWF6  

The Video recordings: 

https://youtu.be/W1DVUKgQkMk   

Dr. Mirjam Hauck, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages, Academic Co-Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment in the OPEN University in UK. 

Dr. Mirjam Hauck is the Academic Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching, and Assessment at the Open University/UK and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the use of technologies for learning and teaching languages and cultures, particularly in virtual exchange (VE) contexts.

Currently, her scholarly work focuses on theorizing and framing the nascent field of critical virtual exchange (CVE), which considers that VE is not inherently equitable as its point of departure. CVE is VE through the social justice lens and aims to ensure more equitable, inclusive, and socio-politically relevant student exchange experiences.

She is the President of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) and the Chair of the Language and Culture Expert Community of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). She serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL and LLT. She is also a founder member of UNICollaboration.org.

This online session will take place on the 9th of January at 1600 CET.  

To watch it again: https://youtu.be/pbupa0-HN48 

Fabian Krengel, PhD candidate and research assistant for English Language Teaching at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Fabian Krengel has been researching and teaching virtual exchange (VE) and its potential to foster education for sustainable development (ESD) and global education in foreign language teaching contexts since late 2019. He has experience working with VE partners in Brazil, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and Türkiye. His VE project has been awarded with the Teaching Award of the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 2022 and the Teaching and Learning Award of the European university network ENLIGHT in 2023.

Currently, his scholarly work focuses on glocality, tolerance for ambiguity, controversiality, social justice education, and fostering respectful dialog, particularly at the nexus of Germany, Israel, and Palestine. Previously, as part of his background in geography, he contributed to the trilateral project “Management of Transboundary Rivers between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU – Identification of Science-Based Goals and Fostering Trilateral Dialogue and Cooperation” (ManTra-Rivers).

He is a member of UNICollaboration.org and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF – German Society for Foreign Language Research).

This online session will take place on the 9th of January at 1600 CET.  

Iryna Simkova, Professor, Head of Department of ELH, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

This online session will take place on the 23rd of January at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/jiLiqekpWfoEPGbo9 

To watch it again:  https://youtu.be/PtorKi1kZ3U   

Larisa Kasumagić Kafedžić, Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy

This online session will take place on the 30th of January at 1600 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:  https://forms.gle/yy43vbDJaVZbtcQ28   

To watch it again:  https://youtu.be/7NgCU-sGE7U 

Dr. Pavel Luksha, 

Pavel Luksha, Director, Global Education Futures, and Associate Researcher, Learning Planet Institute

This online session will take place on the 6th of February at 1600 CET.  

Mr. Elioke Bakoke

This online session will take place on the 13th of February at 1600 CET.