Baltics4UA aims to enhance Baltic universities’ social responsibility through civic engagement actions to address the current Ukrainian humanitarian crisis in the Baltics. The project empowers higher education institutions (HEIs) to support active citizenship within formal education, while answering the need of upskilling academic staff, students and citizens in social action to support Ukrainian populations in the Baltics. The project foresees enhancing HEIs’ cooperation with the quadruple helix actors (policy, industry, society) in humanitarian crises.

Baltics4UA answers the need of Ukrainian refugees to continue their learning and life journey in the Baltics or in Ukraine. The project unfolds in a series of experience cafés, the production of open educational materials for academic staff and the release of a podcast series in which university staff involved in citizen engagement actions will share their experiences.

Full list of Baltics4UA results: 

• Report WP3A7. Jõgi, L. (2024). Cross-crisis responsiveness and the role of the universities. Tallinn: Baltics4UA consortium. 10.5281/zenodo.14626042
• Publication WP2A8: Abolina, I., Beitane, A., Boichenko, K., Dovidonytė, R., Gibson, C., Kondratyk, Y., Oikonomou, S., Pranckutė, A., Tautkevičienė, G., Teder, L., Vovk, N., Shilinh, A. and Zourou, K. 2024. “Citizen engagement as a crisis response at higher education institutions in the Baltic states and Ukraine”. Nordic Perspectives on Open Science 9 (September):1–27. https://doi.org/10.7557/11.7508
• Synthesis WP2A9 (EN): Dovidonytė, R., Tautkevičienė, G., & Jonaitytė, L. (2024). WP2A9: Synthesis of OA publication: Citizen engagement as a crisis response at higher education institutions in the Baltic states and Ukraine (V1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13885831
• Open Access Educational Materials for Academic Staff. Beitane, A., Kondratyk, Y., Gibson, C., Stučka, M., Boichenko, K., Dovidonytė, R. Jonaityte, L., Teder, L., Vovk, N., Shilinh, A., Oikonomou, S., & Zourou, K. (2024) https://zenodo.org/records/13683304
• Report. (D7). Zourou, K., Boichenko K., & Oikonomou, S. (2024). Business-academia openings: collection of examples to foster academic resilience in crisis response
• Publication. Zourou, K., Boichenko, K., Oikonomou, S. (2023). Business response to support the Ukrainian crisis in the Baltics: Openings to academia and civil society. In VIII International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference “Innovative entrepreneurship: state and prospects of development”: a collection of scientific papers. Ukraine, Kyiv: KNEU, 249-254.
• Publication. Boichenko K., Zourou K., Oikonomou S. (2023). Exploring the Business Community’s Contribution to Academic Resilience for Effective Response for Ukrainian Crisis in the Baltics. In International security in the light of current global challenges: Baltic States – Ukraine: unity, support, victory: a collection of scientific papers. Ukraine, Kyiv: KNEU, 266-270.
• Publication. Boichenko, K., Zourou, K., Oikonomou, S. (2024). Innovating through adversity: Baltic universities’ and businesses’ synergies for resilience. In IХ International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference “Innovative entrepreneurship: state and prospects of development”: a collection of scientific papers. Ukraine, Kyiv: KNEU, 214-226.
• Policy brief. (D8). Kondratyk, Y., Gibson, C., & Beitane, A. (2024). Higher education in humanitarian crises: resilience, social inclusion, innovation (result of the project’s WP2A11).
• Publication. (D2). Pranckutė, A., Abolina, I., Beitane, A., Berezko, O., Boichenko, K., Gibson, C. H., Jõgi, L., Oikonomou, S., Pata, K., Shilinh, A., Stučka, M., Tautkevičienė, G., Teder, L., Vali, F., Vovk, N., & Zourou, K. (2023). WP2A4. Landscape analyses: Examples of citizen engagement initiatives for Ukraine organized by Baltic Universities.
• Synthesis. (D3). Landscape analysis: Examples of citizen engagement initiatives for Ukraine organized by Baltic Universities. English. Lithuanian. Greek. Ukrainian. Estonian. Latvian.
• Instruction. (D4). Oikonomou, S., Boichenko, K., & Zourou, K. (2023). Methodology for the design, implementation and assessment of citizen engagement as crisis response at Baltic HEIs. Web2Learn.
• Publication. Zourou, K., Oikonomou, S. (2023). Baltic universities fostering citizen engagement through social actions for Ukrainian refugees.
• Review. (D1). Mapping activity: collection of initiatives undertaken by Baltic HEIs to engage citizens in forms of social action for Ukrainians (result of the project’s WP2 A1).
• Presentation. Introduction of the projects: Goals, target groups and partners of Baltics4UA (as of February 2023 at the beginning of the project).

Online events by Web2Learn:

1. Business and academic response to the Ukrainian crisis in the Baltics (April 11, 2023). Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34iC_9L8D0M&t=22s
2. Online experience café: Academia-society-business social actions for crisis response in Ukraine (April 15, 2024). Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9DEcYU1RP4
3. European webinar “Fundraising and beyond: business perspective for academic resilience” (December 5, 2024). Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEG5A_ofDdo