Digital Educational Ecosystem for Ukrainian Universities: A Strategic Approach to Resilience and Sus

Russia's war against Ukraine has caused unprecedented damage to the higher education system, forcing over 30 universities into displacement and setting digital transformation as a matter of institutional survival. In response, Ukrainian universities initiated the creation of a virtual, multilateral, open university platform to ensure educational continuity despite ongoing destruction and displacement. This session presents the DigiUni project (Erasmus+), uniting 26 partners from Ukraine and Europe. We showcase how collaborative digital innovation addresses wartime challenges: maintaining educational quality across dispersed communities, serving students in occupied territories, and ensuring access during electricity blackouts and air raids. Participants will learn practical approaches to crisis-responsive digital infrastructure, inter-institutional collaboration at scale, and sustaining academic mission when physical infrastructure is lost.

Contributors: Alla Tsapiv, Rector's assistant of Kherson State University