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 receive the link, you need to register here:    

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' 

This online session will take place on the 25th of July at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here:    

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

This online session will take place on the 24th of October at 1500 CET.  To receive the link you need to register here:     

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

This online session will take place on the 30th of October at 1500 CET.  To receive the link, you need to register here: