The UKRainian Academic International NEtwork
15 January 2022

Dear colleagues,

With this 30th issue of our Newsletter we inform you about 2 calls for applications: THEA Ukraine X and Ukrainian Academic Accelerator; that videos and other materials from the Days of Ukraine in Berlin & Brandenburg (16-17 September 2021) are now available on our YouTube Channel (subscribe, 'like' and share!); celebrate two ERC Starting Grants: to Prof. Dr. Natalia Tschowri and Dr. Ganna Gryn’ova and, as always, provide a digest of the latest news, funding opportunities and events related to Ukrainian Studies and academic cooperation with Ukraine.

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Stay healthy and with kind regards,

Dr. Oksana Seumenicht, Managing Director, the German-Ukrainian Academic Society/ Research Development Manager, MDC, Berlin & Professor Olga Garaschuk, President, the German-Ukrainian Academic Society/ Chair of the Department of Neurophysiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Vitali Matyash for IT support, Anna Grebinyk for her significant contribution as the Assistant Editor (Web & Newsletter) and Sofiya Kotsyuda for taking care of our YouTube channel, as well as to Jana Almes, Jochen Fornasier, Olesia LazarenkoSonja Mikeska, Natalia Tschowri and Kostiantyn Yanchenko for their valuable contributions of news items included in this issue and posted on our web-page, in the LinkedIn group and on our YouTube Channel.

Training: Calls for Applications
Awards and Distinctions
Computational chemist Ganna Gryn’ova wins an ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Ganna Gryn’ova is head of the Computational Carbon Chemistry (CCC) group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). In her research she uses state-of-the-art computational chemistry to explore and exploit diverse functional organic materials. In particular, she and her team are developing an in silico framework of tools and concepts…
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Microbiologist Natalia Tschowri wins an ERC Starting Grant
Prof. Natalia Tschowri (Leibniz University Hannover) is molecular microbiologist, who investigates gene regulation, second messenger signaling and signal transduction in bacteria. In her ERC StG-supported project “Revealing second messenger functions in bacterial stress response, cell differentiation and natural product biosynthesis” (SecMessFunctions), Prof. Tschowri will elucidate the function and study regulation of novel second messengers using antibiotic-producing Streptomyces…
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Angelus Central European Literature Award goes to Kateryna Babkina
Ukrainian writer Kateryna Babkina won the 2021 Angelus Central European Literature Award (Polish: Nagroda Literacka Europy Środkowej Angelus). Kateryna Babkina’s winning book Мій дід танцював краще за всіх/ My grandfather danced better than anyone else is a series of 12 short stories that form a single story of five families whose children meet…
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DUAG member Prof. Jochen Fornasier elected as President of the Centre for Archaeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region (ZAKS)
Prof. Jochen Fornasier, a DUAG member, has been elected as President of the ZAKS – Zentrum für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes e.V. (Centre for Archaeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region), a non-governmental not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Halle (Saale), Germany. The ZAKS work focuses on research into the cultural history and archaeology of…
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Highly Cited Researchers 2021
Congratulations to the highly cited researchers: Yury Gogotsi, graduate of the KPI, professor at Drexel University, (Philadelphia, USA), total times cited: 160.853; H-Index: 177 Travel to the Frontier of Science, by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, TEDxDrexelU Yuri Kivshar, graduate of the Kharkiv University, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra, Australia),…
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Cooperation Highlight
Ukrainian guest scholars at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau: follow up on the two recent Ukrainian-German Autumn Schools
Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (TH Wildau) has been cooperation with Ukrainian universities for some time, supported by Prof. Dr. Marcus Frohme (Department Molecular Biotechnology and Functional Genomics). In  2021 his team, including Dr. Anna Grebinyk und Prof. Dr. Alina Nechyporenko, organized two Ukrainian-German Autumn schools titled „Lessons in Biomedicine learnt from Nanotechnology…
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New Developments in Ukraine
American University Kyiv launched
American University Kyiv (AUK) is designed as a world-class private university based in Ukraine powered by Arizona State University. The AUK aims to deliver an American standard of excellence in higher education through the expanding portfolio of undergraduate, graduate,…
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Report: Large-scale study of IT industry in Lviv & Ivano-Frankivsk
IT Research is a research network with a unique methodology, thanks to which a large-scale study of the Lviv IT market has been conducted in the city since 2015 on the initiative of the Lviv IT Cluster. In…
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Delegation of the Kyiv City State Administration and Academ.City team visit Berlin
The Academ.City project team together with responsible representatives of the Kyiv City State Administration came to Berlin on 29 November – 3 December 2021. The Academ.City brings together leading actors of the innovation ecosystem of Ukraine from both…
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Event Reports
Video-recordings from the Days of Ukraine in Berlin & Brandenburg published
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Online-Seminar on Cooperative Study Programs
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Quick & Useful
New publication on Human security in Ukraine
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Ukraine: Investors Book 2021
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Unique historical testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents saved
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Other Useful Resources
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A SELECTION OF THE FORTHCOMING EVENTS: January - March 2022

A SELECTION OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (grants & fellowships, sorted by deadline)

CANADA, The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Research Grants, apply by 1 March
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Scottish-European funding for early career researchers: European Crucible 2022, apply by 21 February
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Funding for Canadian researchers to initiate and develop international collaborations
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EU Horizon Europe, Hop On Facility, expected first deadline: 20 April
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WORLDWIDE, Branco Weiss Fellowship, apply by 15 January
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GERMANY, Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grants in the field of information and data sciences: apply by 15 March
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GERMANY, Berlin: Apply for a PhD at the MDC by 25 January
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DAAD: Funding for partnerships with universities in East-Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia, apply by 28 February
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