Together with the Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, KIU invites researchers from various disciplines such as history, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, legal studies and related fields to intensively advance their research, broaden their networks and connect themselves and their work to an emerging vibrant Ukraine-related research environment located in the Berlin-Brandenburg capital area. KIU is a project initiated and led by the European University Viadrina, in cooperation with its excellent partner institutions – the Centre for East European and International Studies Berlin (ZOiS), the Humboldt University Berlin, the Free University Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.
With its Sur-Place Fellowship program, KIU seeks to support those excellent scientists who have remained in Ukraine despite all the adversities caused by the war, carrying out highly relevant research projects there and enriching our understanding of Ukraine, its past, present and future, and its entanglements.
The KIU Research Fellowships are intended to support scientists of all career stages from 2 years after completing their doctorate in their individual studies, and to connect them both with KIU and the Lviv Center for Urban History. Fellows are expected to focus on a project, contribute to the regular digital/hybrid KIU colloquium with at least one presentation of their own work, and to explore the potential of joint research work both with other fellows and with KIU members and in particular their individual virtual hosts.
In 2024, nine Sur-Place fellowships will be offered for committed scientists from all the above-mentioned disciplines, starting in August 24. Research topics should be related to, but are not limited on the umbrella topic of “War in Ukraine: Destruction of heritage – mastering legacy”.
More information and how to apply can be found here.
You might also find interesting to read this report on the Opening Event of The Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin (KIU).
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) funds over four years two centres for interdisciplinary Ukrainian studies: The “Denkraum Ukraine” centre at the University of Regensburg and the “Kompetenzverbund Interdisziplinäre Ukrainestudien Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin (KIU)” centre at the European University Viadrina in cooperation with Berlin universities and scientific institutions. A total of almost five million euros will be available until 2028. The selected centres are aimed to contribute to the expansion of expertise on Ukraine in Germany and strategically bring together social science and humanities research and teaching on Ukraine between departments and institutions. The centres will also play a special role in science communication and the networking of German, Ukrainian and international players from science and civil society: current research results are to be prepared for the specialist audience and a broader public, especially for institutions involved in the reconstruction of Ukraine.