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November 2024

• Discussion (YouTube): ПРОРИВ НА ФРОНТІ: як науковці змінюють війну в Україні | Security Talks з Валентином Бадраком. У гостях: Володимир Устименко, директор Інституту економіко-правових досліджень імені В.К. Мамутова НАН України, доктор юридичних наук, професор Олександра Антонюк, голова Наукового комітету Нацради з питань розвитку науки і технологій, заступниця директора Київського академічного університету (30 November 2024)
• The Lancet: “Our own front”: medical research in Ukraine”, by Ed Holt (25 November 2024)
• SCIENCE AT RISK Monitoring Report: Julia Mierau (ed.), Maryna Rabinovych, Iuliia Iashchenko “Academia in Ukraine in Times of War: Understanding the Status-Quo, Challenges, and Support Needs” (November 2024)
• Open Letter “To Avoid Another Munich, Europe Must Act to Secure Ukraine”, signed by 110 policy-makers, researchers, authors and journalists (3 November 2024)
• E-International Relations: Russia’s Status as a Colonial Power, by Kseniya Oksamytna (1 November 2024)

October 2024

• New Issue: London Ukrainian Review: Justice for Ukraine (31 October 2024)
• Science and Diplomacy, Special Issue “Science Diplomacy – 15 years on”: On the Role of Universities in Science Diplomacy for Ukraine, By Taras Dobko. 17 October 2024

September 2024

• Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed: Ukrainian Studies Struggle Against Imperial Heritage. Preserving identity. September 26, 2024
• Nataliia Zaika, Analytics Society, 24 September 2024: Not Just Housing and Jobs: How Identity and Homesickness Influence Ukrainian Refugees’ Desire to Return Home. Results of the study based on the survey conducted by the “Rating” sociological group on behalf of American University Kyiv from December 12 to 19, 2023, across the entire Poland. It covered Ukrainians residing in Poland at the time of the survey: 937 respondents who arrived in the country after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion (refugees), and 202 who came before the invasion (migrants). The full research report is available at the following link in Ukrainian and English.
• ZOiS Spotlight 17/2024: How Russia is Trying to Take the Sting out of Western Technological Sanctions, by Ewa Dąbrowska, 18 September 2024
• Лекція почесного доктора Френка Сисина Тема лекції: “Україна таки має свою історію. Деколонізація західної академічної спільноти після російського вторгнення”. FRANK E. SYSYN is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. 

August 2024

• Available to pre-order: Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996. The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this album and book explores the flourishing Ukrainian music scene of the late 20th century—much of which was recorded under strict Soviet control
• RND.de, 22. August 2024, von Harald Stutte: Das Märchen von der „Unbesiegbarkeit Russlands“. „Die These vom vermeintlich unbesiegbaren Russland ist historisch gesehen Unsinn. Das Russische Kaiserreich und später die Sowjetunion haben im an militärischen Waffengängen reichen letzten Jahrhundert sogar mehr Kriege verloren als gewonnen“, erläutert der Historiker Klaus Gestwa, Direktor des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen, dem RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).
• BOOK: From Screens to Battlefields: Tracing the Construction of Enemies on Russian Television. By Alona Shestopalova. Ukrainian Voices Series.  ‎ ibidem; New Edition (1. August 2024).  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3838218841/ ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3838218847

July 2024

• ZOiS Spotlight on Ukraine 10: Warmth, Laughter, and the Smell of Buns: Perceptions of Home among Forced Migrants from Ukraine, by Oksana Mikheieva (18 July 2024). “As part of the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS, 45 interviews were conducted with young Ukrainians who were forced to leave Ukraine after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 and are now living in Germany or the Czech Republic. They talked about what home means for them, the importance of feeling at home, and their attitudes towards Ukraine and their host countries.”
• ZOiS Spotlight on Ukraine 9: Rebuilding Amid Uncertainty: Reconstruction in Ukrainian Cities, by Tetiana Skrypchenko (03 July 2024). “In spring 2024, a comprehensive study into damaged housing was conducted as part of the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS in two significantly affected cites: Irpin, in the Kyiv region, and Kharkiv. The research included 20 in-depth interviews with local residents and managers of damaged buildings as well as a quantitative online survey of 300 residents. The results of the research revealed that almost half of the affected population had already rebuilt their housing, often at their own expense.“
• German Economic Team NL 189| July 2024, Dr. Stefan Meister: The EU formally opened accession negotiations with Ukraine
• Chytomo: Russia damages over 700 Ukrainian libraries in under two years, by Daryna Holovan. “Russia has destroyed 138 and damaged 577 Ukrainian libraries since the start of its full-scale invasion, according to data from Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, which responded to an inquiry from Chytomo“.

June 2024

• Science I Business: Europe reviews science diplomacy policy after Ukraine invasion shock, by David Matthews (27 June 2024). “The first European Science Diplomacy conference was held last December in Madrid, and five working groups of academics, diplomats and other experts are currently putting together recommendations that should be emerge as a report this October.”
  • Björn Fägersten, a political scientist, published a key report in 2022 about science diplomacy
• EUDiF:“Liza Bezvershenko on the Global Ukrainian Community and diaspora as strong partners in the recovery of Ukraine“: On April 19-20, over 120 Ukrainian diaspora representatives gathered in Berlin for the official pre-conference to the#URC2024, aiming to delve into the engagement of the diaspora and the Global Ukrainian Community in Ukraine’s Recovery. In this interview Liza Bezvershenko shares her insights, considering the discussions from multiple perspectives, personal and professional, being an active member of the Ukrainian diaspora, volunteer Advocacy Coordinator at Promote Ukraine, and Project Assistant at EUDiF.
• Zbruch: Трансфер технологій як національна ідея, Роман Скляров

April 2024

• VOX Ukraine, Reforms: Valerii Zhelnin and Maksym Havryliuk, Draft law on academic integrity: what does it envision, and how would it operate? 9 April 2024. They refer to the OPTIMA project conducted the “2022 All-Ukrainian Academic Integrity and Open Science Survey” among students and the academic community (7,727 replies) (see the Publication).

March 2024

• UNESCO Report: Analysis of war damage to the Ukrainian science sector and its consequences. ISBN: 978-92-3-100662-3
• Science I Business: Viewpoint: Trojan Academics or why western universities are a valuable source for Russia’s covert operations, By Kristjan Vassil. In the wake of an espionage scandal, a former vice rector of the University of Tartu examines how universities across the EU have become targets in russia’s hybrid war – and how they should defend themselves.
• Huddinge: A World Order in Transformation?: A Comparative Study of Consequences of the War and Reactions to These Changes in the Region by Ninna Mörner

February 2024

• EURODOC (24.02.2024): Higher education and academic research are key elements for Ukraine’s recovery
• EUA, Expert Voices: Ukrainian higher education has persevered, but strategic international collaboration is key to its post-war future, by Oksana Seumenicht. 20 February 2024
• American Bankruptcy Law Journal 97, 4: Post-war Economic Recovery of Ukraine: What Role could the EU Preventive Restructuring Directive 2019/1023 Play for the Ukrainian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises?by Oleksiy Kononov

January 2024

• Forschung und Lehre, 2/24: Schamma Schahadat and Alexander Wöll, Übersehener Reichtum. Die Chance der Slavistik.
• Vox Ukraine: Return or stay? What factors impact the decisions of Ukrainian refugees by  Ilona Sologoub (January 16, 2024)
• Science For Ukraine: Rose, Michael and Jurikova, Katarina and Pelepets, Marina and Slivko, Olga and Yereshko, Julia, Scientific Support Offers for Ukrainians: Determinants, Reasons and Consequences (January 4, 2024). Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 24-01
• Science: Laid to waste. Ukrainian scientists are tallying the grave environmental consequences of the Kakhovka Dam disaster, by Richard Stone. 4 Jan 2024

December 2023

• The Royal Society, Conference report: Ukraine’s recovery: rebuilding with research (Conference held on 15 – 16 May 2023, organized by the Royal Society in partnership with the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN), together with the Fund of the President of Ukraine for Education, Science and Sports, and the Embassy of Ukraine)
• Science I Business: CERN Council decides to conclude cooperation with Russia and Belarus in 2024. “The cooperation will come to an end on 27 June 2024 for the Republic of Belarus and on 30 November 2024 for the Russian Federation. All relations between CERN and Russian and Belarusian institutions will cease as of these dates. Relations continue with scientists of Russian or Belarusian nationality otherwise affiliated with CERN.” The full text of the Council’s resolutions can be found here. This article was first published on 15 December by CERN.
• EIB: EIB’s EU for Ukraine Fund finances its first project (4.12.2023):
  • The EU for Ukraine Fund managed by the EIB approves a €25 million investment in Ukraine’s equity growth fund, aimed at strengthening SMEs in Ukraine and Moldova.
  • This funding primarily targets asset-light, human capital-rich, export-oriented technology companies, building on the region’s rich engineering talent base.
  • The EU for Ukraine Fund is designed to rapidly address urgent needs and sustain economic stability in Ukraine, with over €400 million committed by EU Member States so far.
• Nature: The effects of war on Ukrainian research, by Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Tetiana Murovana & Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 856 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02346-x

November 2023

• SCIENCE AT RISK Monitoring Report by Yuliia Yevstiunina, Julia Mierau, Tetiana Folhina, Philipp Christoph and Schmädeke: Ukraine 2022-2023: Threats to science and higher education after the full-scale Russian invasion, Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa – akno e.V
• Ukraine’s Membership of the EU: Together We are Better,
  Greener, More Resilient and Sustainable, Resource and Analysis Center “Society and Environment”

October 2023

• Von Alexander Wulfers: Wie ukrainische Techfirmen dem Krieg trotzen. FAZ, 28 October 2023
• Sergiy Sylantyev: ‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine, Nature, 5 October 2023

September 2023

• Interview with Yevhenia Podobna: “Evil must be called evil”, ukrainian-studies, September 30 2023

August 2023

• Preserving Science during Wartime, white paper, Project of Science at Risk
• Alieva A. and Nechitailo I.: Resilience of education systems: what lessons can be learned from Ukraine?, NESET ad hoc report, EU commission

July 2023

• Wolfsberger, W. et al: Scientists without borders: lessons from Ukraine, GigaScience, Volume 12, 2023, DOI:  10.1093/gigascience/giad045
• Ganguli I. et al: Ukrainian science is struggling, threatening long-term economic recovery – history shows ways to support the Ukrainian scientific system, the conversation
• Labur O.: Militarized Cancer: People with a Diagnosis and the War in Ukraine, trafo hypotheses, 13 July 2023
• Chytomo: A guide to the history of oppression of the Ukrainian language, by Olena Siruk (03 July 2023)

June 2023

• Kelm N.: Data visualisation during wartime. Nadja Kelm`s speech at the data-journalisn conference in Finland, texty, 27 June

May 2023

• The German Marshall Fund of the United States: Inayeh A. et al.: Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine

April 2023

• The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.:Ukrainian Science in the Context of Decolonization: A personal perspective for the benefit of the international science community, by Alexey Ladokhin, Ph.D., D.Sc.

• Nature Podcast, Adam Levy: How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive, 28 April 2023

March 2023

• Ukraine: how can the scientific community help scholars at risk? World Economic Forum, March 21, 2023

February 2023

• Nature: Bazaliy et al, Ukraine: don’t relax scientific sanctions against Russia, Nature 2023 Mar; 615(7950): 34. doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00554-8
• Research Professional News, Opinion: Helping Ukraine recover means supporting its research now. By Oksana Seumenicht. 23 February 2023
• Nature
  • Editorial: Rebuilding Ukrainian science can’t wait — here’s how to start. International support has rightly focused on researchers who have been forced to flee. Ukraine’s devastated research infrastructure needs assistance, too. 22 February 2023
  • News Feature: The fight to keep Ukrainian science alive through a year of war. Researchers say science is bleeding in Ukraine — but they are determined to sustain their work with help from other nations. By Aisling Irwin. 22 February 2023

January 2023

• Science: Science in postwar Ukraine, by Nataliya Shulga. 12.01.2023

December 2022

• American Scientist, Nov.-Dec. 2022, Vol. 110, No. 6, p. 352, DOI: 10.1511/2022.110.6.352: Ukrainian Scientists and Educators in Wartime, by Olha Harmatiy
• Podcast by Prof. Roman Sheremeta (Rector fo the American University Kyiv), 24 December 2023: “What Ukraine Needs to Win the War – and what comes after a Ukrainian Victory”
• Chhugani et al. (2022): Remote opportunities for scholars in Ukraine, Science
• Maryl, Maciej et al (2022): Beyond Resilience: Professional Challenges, Preferences, and Plans of Ukrainian Researchers Abroad. This survey report, provides first-hand reliable information on the professional challenges and preferences regarding the support measures for those Ukrainian researchers who left Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of 24 February 2022
• Science|Business: HORIZON BLOG: European R&D policy newsbytes, 22.12.2022

November 2022

• Spiegel: Helfen wir der Ukraine, diesen Kriegswinter zu überstehen, 16.11.2022
• Jetzt ist der Moment: Der Ukraine helfen, diesen Kriegswinter zu überstehen! 15.11.2022 Aufruf von mehr als 70 Osteuropa-Forschern, Schriftstellerinnen, ehemaligen Diplomaten und Politikerinnen, Historikern und Sicherheitsexperten/ DW: Intellektuelle rufen zu Unterstützung der Ukraine auf

October 2022

• Science|Business survey: Most European researchers support science sanctions on Russia, 27.10.2022
• ERC: Ukrainian researcher finds refuge and work in the EU, 27.10.2022
• Elephantinthelab: Digital transformation ahead of schedule. How Ukrainian universities survive and transform in times of war, 26.10.2022
• Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 273 vom 17.10.2022: Internationale Hilfe für die Ukraine während des Krieges / Perspektiven und Probleme des Wiederaufbaus der Ukraine nach dem Krieg
• MDC: Research as a future prospect for Ukrainian women, 12.10.2022
• OSFPreprints: Chhugani et al. Effective and feasible mechanisms to support Ukrainian researchers and students at risk: opportunities, challenges and pitfalls. 07.10.2022
• Science I Business: Call for targeted financial relief for Ukrainian research, By Florin Zubașcu, 5.10.2022 “Two funding experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology travelled to Ukraine in a personal capacity to learn about the needs of the research system. Targeted aid would have an immediate impact in getting institutions in the west of the country back on their feet”.

September 2022

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Rebuilding Research, Education, and Innovation in Ukraine: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26795. This Proceedings of a Workshop (21-23 September 2022)—in Brief provides a high-level summary of the workshop discussions on best practices for managing science, higher education, innovation, and research funding from the international community.
• Science I Business: Research should be ‘driving force’ of international reconstruction plans in Ukraine, by Florin Zubașcu, 29.09.2022 “Commissioner Mariya Gabriel looks to R&I to support long-term recovery, as government officials in Ukraine estimate 15% of research and higher education institutions have been damaged by Russian bombs”
• Research Professional News/ Research Europe: Ukraine’s research community needs coordinated support, by Oksana Seumenicht, 29.09.2022
• Research Professional News/ Research Europe: Ukraine: Fighting on, By Fiona McIntyre, 15.09.2022
• The PIE News: Ukraine ‘grateful’ for UK support as schools destroyed, 08.09.2022. UUK launched its #TwinForHope campaign at the event, celebrating over 75 partnerships formed between UK and Ukrainian universities since April.
• Science I Business: The war in Ukraine: science community is divided over the justification for science sanctions against Russia, By Goda Naujokaitytė, 8.09.2022
• A Science|Business discussion paper “The conduct of science in times of war”, 7.09.2022

August 2022

• A Report by the Ukrainian Healthcare Center: Massive. Brutal. Deliberate. Attacks on Hospitals in the Russia-Ukraine War during the First Phase of the Invasion (February 24-April 7, 2022): “Our documentation of hospital attacks intends to contribute to
  the legal prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian military and political leaders. In addition, we urge international organizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) in particular, to take a more active stance against the mass
  destruction of healthcare in Ukraine.”
• Financial times: Who’s winning the war in Ukraine? by Gideon Rachman, 25.08.2022
• Die Zeit has dedicated a special insert to the war in Ukraine as seen through the prism of art and culture, 25.08.2022
• Science I Business: World leading mathematician is dreaming of a bright future for Ukrainian science,  Maryna Viazovska, 25.08.2022
• universitiesUK: Signing ceremony confirms 71 ‘twinning’ partnerships now in place between UK and Ukrainian universities. 18.08.2022
• EURAXESS for researchers at risk: an interview with Pavlo Bazilinskyy, 18.08.2022
• THE: Supporting Ukrainian scholars: what’s next for #ScienceForUkraine?, by Arran Reader and Anna K. Bobak. 15.08.2022
• UWN: Crimes against the world – Russia’s attacks on universities, by Nathan M Greenfield. 14.08.2022

July 2022

• Science (Letters): Funding databases for Ukrainian academics, by Valentina Mosienko, Marina Pelepets, Sanita Rainsone & Michael Rose. 28.07.2022
• DAAD: Lehren der Vergangenheit, Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas an der LMU München, über den Krieg in der Ukraine. Interview: Johannes Göbel (26.07.2022): “Zudem planen wir in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung ein Programm zur Rettung und Archivierung ukrainischer ­Kulturgüter.“… “Leider ist aktuell ein wissenschaftlicher Austausch mit Russland nicht möglich, da sich das Land für den militärischen Weg entschieden hat.“
• Andrii Portnov: Nothing New in the East? What the West Overlooked – Or Ignored, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 26.07.2022
• NZZ: Russland braucht eine Schuldkultur, by Andrii Portnov. “Die Ukraine befreit sich vom Schatten imperialer, grossrussischer Kultur. Doch auch Russland muss sich seiner Geschichte stellen”. 20.07.2022
• ZOiS Spotlight: Die Auswirkungen des Krieges auf die Wertevorstellungen in der Ukraine, Iryna Kaplan, 20.07.2022
• Essay “Ukraine Between West and Different Easts” by Andrii Portnov, published by the Center for Intellectual History, University of Oxford, 14.07.2022
• ZOiS Spotlight: Die kulturelle Annäherung der Ukraine an den Westen, Alessandro Achilli, 06.07.2022
• European Commission: Supporting refugee learners from Ukraine in schools in Europe 2022, 06.07.2022
• Shevchenko Scientific Society: Ladokhin A.S., Ukrainian Science in the Context of Decolonization: A personal perspective for the benefit of the international science community

June 2022

May 2022

April 2022

• BBC: Ukraine war: Professor tells of elderly mother’s death in Mariupol. Prof. Andrei Kirilenko, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. 29.04.2022 Also see by Andrei Kirilenko in The Globe and Mail: “The destruction of my hometown of Mariupol is something I can never forgive”, 20.04.2022: “… I last visited Mariupol in 2019. The city that had long been a corrupt industrial backwater was becoming a model of inclusive development and openness. A new IT hub was being built. An international festival of contemporary arts was being planned. The city’s football team was playing in the UEFA Europa League. Ukraine itself was quickly moving toward the EU, while Russia was quickly regressing back into the USSR. Ukrainians were traveling visa-free throughout Europe. Russians were building tanks, planes and rockets with the money they made by selling oil and gas to Europeans. In Ukraine, new presidential and parliamentary elections were coming. No one could predict their outcomes. In Russia, the same aging cult leader remained in power for nearly two decades. Ukrainian movies about the War of 2014 won awards at Cannes and Sundance. Russia was producing ever more movies about the Second World War. At the end of my visit, my mom asked me if war with Russia was imminent. I answered that I switched to speaking Ukrainian with her because speaking Russian is an open invitation for the Russians to invade. They view the use of their language as a precursor to invasion. If you do not want them to come and enforce their values, why do you speak their language? This makes any place where Russian is heard not safe. Any place. Starting with Mariupol. That’s why not only economic, but cultural ties with anything Russian must be severed. Otherwise, it’s an invitation for invasion. It is only a matter of time. It took Russians three more years after my last visit to amass enough armies to attack Mariupol again. This time they turned it into an apocalypse. They do not want any Ukrainians – whether Russian-speaking or not – to remain there. They do not want anyone there who can witness what it was like before they invaded and destroyed it. They want to sacrifice everyone. That includes hundreds of thousands of moms and their sons and daughters. That includes my mom. I will never forgive them for that.“
• IEP Podcast: #4 UkraineMEMO: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine – Was macht ihn so komplex?29.04.2022, with Dr. Susan Stewart, Senior Fellow in der Forschungsgruppe Osteuropa und Eurasien der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). Moderators: Ljudmyla Melnyk & Arthur Molt
• The art newspaper: Venice museums send supplies to help save Ukraine’s art, 28.04.2022
• EU publications: EU research and innovation and the invasion of Ukraine, 25.04.2022
• European University Association: Impact of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine on the Ukrainian higher education sector, 25.04.2022
• Radio Svoboda: From the lessons of the big bluff: why 40 million Ukrainians were thrown into the trap of “serial killer” in Ukrainian, 25.04.2022
• UCU: What impact will the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war have on the world? UCU’s School of Public Administration met with two leading American political scientists Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul to discuss the Russian-Ukrainian war, which is a turning point in the world history, tendency of the Western democracy and the future of liberal democracy, 22.04.2022
• Science: Ukraine’s mounting death toll includes a growing number of researchers, by Richard Stone, 22.04.2022
• The New York Times: The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism’, 22.04.2022
• VoxUkraine: How European universities provide support to Russians in the name of solidarity with Ukraine, by Olena Rybiy, 21.04.2022
• Commission of Historians warns against the destruction of Ukrainian archives (in German), 11.04.2022
• NNews: Ukraine has joined the European “elite club” of polar research, in Ukrainian, 08.04.2022
• The Christian Science Monitor: Brain gain: Universities worldwide step up to help Ukrainian scholars, by Chelsea Sheasley, 07.04.2022
• Science I Business: Ukrainian researchers navigate times of war, by Goda Naujokaitytė, 07.04.2022: Estimates show around 40% of the country’s 65,000-strong early career research force has been affected by war. Advocates say listening to their needs should be the main focus now
• A blueprint for the reconstruction of Ukraine, by Torbjörn Becker, Barry Eichengreen, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Sergei Guriev, Simon Johnson, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Kenneth Rogoff, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, 07.04.2022: “The scale of destruction in Ukraine is already staggering. A new CEPR publication builds on prior experiences with reconstruction following both wars and natural disasters to outline some principles for the future reconstruction of Ukraine. Efforts should include putting the country on the path to EU accession; establishing a stand-alone EU-authorised agency with autonomy to coordinate and manage aid and reconstruction programmes; recognising that Ukraine must own its reconstruction; encouraging inflows of foreign capital and technology transfers; a focus on grants rather than loans; and rebuilding around the principle of a zero-carbon future.“
• Nature: The countries maintaining research ties with Russia despite Ukraine. Many Western nations are severing scientific links — but it’s a different story in China, India and South Africa, 06.04.2022
• Science I Business: EU to give €25M to consortium helping Ukrainian scholars at risk, 05.04.2022: “EU research and innovation commissioner Mariya Gabriel is to announce a €25 million direct aid package of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) grants, to be managed by a consortium of ten research organisations, universities and NGOs, to help researchers from Ukraine….The €25 million for the MSCA4Ukraine fellowships will be awarded to a consortium of 10 organisations that built expertise in supporting scholars at risk through a MSCA coordination and support grant from the previous research programme, Horizon 2020. Now the emergency fund will enable the consortium to help researchers who are displaced from Ukraine to continue their research in EU member states or countries associated to Horizon Europe…. The Commission says it will skip the usual procedure of making the money available through a call for proposals, saying the group has expertise in dealing with researchers at risk and there is an exceptional emergency in Ukraine. The consortium includes Scholars at Risk Europe, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, European University Association, Jagellonian University, University of Oslo, University of Gothenburg, French national PAUSE programme, the Dutch foundation for refugee students UAF, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Scholz CTC GmbH.”
• Bellingcat: Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence, by Eliot Higgins, 04.04.2022
• Chytomo: Council of Europe will help Ukraine preserve cultural heritage, in Ukrainian, 03.04.2022
• ZN.ua: 15 largest scientific publishers closed access for Russia and Belarus, in Russian, 03.04.2022
• Chytomo: The occupiers completely destroyed the buildings of the Karazin Kharkiv National University, in Ukrainian, 02.04.2022

March 2022