The “Ukrainian Science Diaspora | Ukrainian Science Diaspora” initiative implements a project “Interviews with Ukrainian scientists abroad: scientific diplomacy and activism”, with the support of the Migration for Development Programme (MEG) in Ukraine, implemented by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Professor Ihor Lyman spoke to some of the members of our society:
- 14 November 2025, Professor Olga Garaschuk, Department of Neurophysiology, University of Tübingen, Germany/ Co-founder and the President of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society: “Стукайте – відкриється“
- 11 November 2025, Dr Oksana Seumenicht, Programme Director MSCA4Ukraine, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/ Co-founder of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society: “Роби, що можеш, там, де ти є“
- 8 November 2025, Professor Andrii Chumak, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria/Co-founder of the Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Austria: “Вони нарешті почали розуміти, що таке Україна і що це за війна“
About the initiative: The Scientist Support Office at the Council of Young Scientists at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has launched the “Ukrainian Science Diaspora | Ukrainian Science Diaspora” initiative in 2022, after the full-scale russian military invasion of Ukraine. The aim of the initiative is to unite the efforts of Ukrainian scientists abroad of different waves of migration for further joint research projects, develop tools for their support programs, and their return to Ukraine.
Some other interviews are published here. Also see:
- Interview (in German) with a physicist Tetyana Galatyuk, Professor of Nuclear Physics at the TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Interview with a physicist Lesya Shchutska, winner of the Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2023
- Interview with a computer scientist Pavlo Bazilinskyy, assistant professor in the Computational Design Systems cluster of the department of Industrial Design of TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Interviews recorded othe occasion of the Days of Ukraine in Berlin-Brandenburg (2021)
- Interview (in Ukrainian) with Oksana Seumenicht “Про уроки фізики по телевізору, боротьбу за українські таланти та німецько-українську співпрацю” (Голос України, Наталія ПИСАНСЬКА, 9.09.2021)
- Interview-Series “Education Inside Out Germany – Ukraine”, supported by the DUAG
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Interview to Global Ukraine “Science without borders”/”Наука не має кордонів” Marta D’omochko spoke to co-initiators of the UKRAINE Network and co-founders of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society Professor Olga Garaschuk (University of Tübingen), Professor Matthias Epple (University Duisburg-Essen) and Dr Oksana Seumenicht (2017)