The Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme is a long-term programme to support projects in Ukrainian studies for research, educational, cultural institutions, and analytical centres abroad. To provide continuous support for Ukrainian studies, the programme will hold three open calls in 2025.
- Projects to be completed within 10 months
- Grants: up to $15,000
- 1st Call Submission Deadline: February 9, 2025. Results Announcement: March 2025. Second and third open calls will be announced early spring and early summer 2025. Applications not selected in the first round may be revised and resubmitted for the later calls.
Who can apply? The programme is open to foreign universities, educational and cultural institutions, think tanks, and individual researchers. Co-financing of up to 30% of total project costs and collaboration with a Ukrainian partner institution will be considered advantageous.
in 2025, the Programme will support the following projects that pursue the goals to:
- Develop and implement university courses (including MOOCs), with priority on undergraduate level and open/general courses;
- Organize research visits, field trips, and summer schools focusing Ukraine and, when circumstances allow, in Ukraine;
- Organize international and interdisciplinary scholarly conferences on Ukraine;
- Conduct and publish research on LRP priority topics for the given year/period;
- Translate specialized academic literature and archival materials from Ukrainian into other languages.
2025 priority topics:
- Decolonizing Knowledge about Ukraine — Rewriting Ukrainian culture and history from the perspective of decolonization and undoing epistemic biases in global scholarship about Ukraine;
- Ukraine and the World — Ukraine’s role in European and global cultures, history, and politics;
- Crimean Tatar studies;
- Intercultural Ukraine — History and culture of Ukraine’s diverse communities;
- Independent Ukraine — History of Ukraine since 1991;
- Resilient Ukraine — Russian war against Ukraine (2014 –) and resilience: social, cultural, security, political, environmental, and economical dimensions.
Strongly encouraged are applications in support of projects that engage with one or more topics from the above list, are interdisciplinary in nature, expand the field of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Studies, and are designed to have an impact on the global community beyond the project lifespan.
More details are available in the Programme Guidelines.