Continuing to train in learning adverse conditions is the main challenge faced by university students in a country at war. This is the result of the survey conducted on a sample of 1,685 students at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Kyiv) in February-March 2023. The most complex challenges for students concern the ability to manage their learning processes related to social isolation and conditions for studying. The figure highlights a task that the university can take on: to train students ex-ante to deal with a conflict situation, whether or not it results in armed war. On the basis of these empirical findings, the article examines the educational contents that second-level university curricula can develop for the development of people's ability to learn about conflict in its various dimensions and to identify the "learning valencies" to which they are exposed in order to become self-directed learners, even in adverse conditions. To this end, examples of curricula with core contents that aim to enable students to deal with conflict as part of their educational and professional development are examined. The introduction of various forms of virtual mobility involving people and countries in conflict are being examined for their potential to turn such situations into opportunities for learning and developing the resilience of future professionals.