Relevant publications

April 2023

• BBA Advances, Special Issue “Highlights of Ukrainian Molecular Biosciences”, Anna V. El’skaya (2023): A few notes on science in Ukraine
  

• 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.

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

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