Collage arranged from private photos unless otherwise specified, left to right: Léo-Paul Barthélémy, Viktor Golovii, Maria Grynevych, and Valeriia Kotelnykova
This year 15 PhD students from six countries, – Ukraine, Germany, France, Poland, Estonia, Italy and Norway, applied to our annual PhD Contest. The PhD Presentation Contest Final will take place at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau on Thursday, the 8th of October 2026, within the framework of the Days of Ukraine in Brandenburg (Wildau and Berlin), 7-9 October 2026 (registartion is opened till 31 August).
After a careful peer review the following PhD students have been selected as finalists and invited to present their work (in alphabetical order):
- Léo-Paul Barthélémy (Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM), University of Lorraine, France):
- (tentative title) “War in Ukraine, Collective Mobilization and Citizen Journalism 2.0: A Co-Construction of Informational Practices and Dynamics”
- Viktor Golovii (cotutelle between the Nord University Business School, Bodø, Norway and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine):
- (tentative title) “Strategies of wineries from Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in the context of eurointegration”
- Maria Grynevych (Institute of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany):
- (tentative title) “Exploring the Civic Identity of Ukrainian Refugee Women in Germany Amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War”
- Valeriia Kotelnykova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)
- (tentative title) “Limit theorems for Karlin’s occupancy scheme”