Cooperation Highlight: Odesa National University and Freie Universität Berlin expand their cooperation in field of international economics

In 2021-2022 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports the fruitful long-term cooperation in field of international economics between the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology of Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University (ONU) and the Institute for Eastern European Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin through its Leonhard-Euler Program.

(Left to right): ONU collaborating partners Prof. Nataliia Masliy, Prof. Tetiana Rodionova, Prof. Theocharis Grigoriadis (FU Berlin), Asst. Prof. Galina Alekseevskaya and Prof. Sergey Yakubovskiy, who visited the FU Berlin with the support of DAAD and Erasmus cooperation programs. Copyright: Tetiana Rodionova

Under this program, three Master and one PhD students from Odesa will be supported by 1-month scholarships to carry out part of their research projects at the FU Berlin.

DAAD-Euler scholars meeting with Prof. Grigoriadis during his visit to ONU in July 2021. Copyright: Tetiana Rodionova

Their research theses will be jointly supervised by Prof. Theocharis Grigoriadis from the German side and by Prof. Serhiy Yakubovsky and Associate Prof. Tetyana Rodionova from the Ukrainian side. Moreover, Prof. Grigoriadis will teach a course in macroeconomics at ONU.

This cooperation will be highlighted at the forthcoming scientific networking conference, Days of Ukraine in Berlin and Brandenburg, organized by Prof. Grigoriadis in cooperation with our Society (FU Berlin, 16-17 September 2021, register here by 20 August for onsite or digital participation).

Prepared based on the ONU’s news feature (in Ukrainian) and the web-site of the Institute for Eastern European Studies, FU Berlin.