Sur-Place Fellows Winter Term 2025-2026

Yuliia Fetko, Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Studies of European Territorial Cooperation; Associate Professor of the Department of International Law, Law Faculty, Uzhhorod National University, PhD (Law), Associate Professor.

Over the past five years, more than 55 scientific works have been published, including 5 co-authored monographs, 35 scientific articles in professional publications of Ukraine and foreign countries.
Involved as an expert in the field of cross-border cooperation in more than 15 national and international projects. Over the past 5 years, has been a speaker at international and national conferences. Participated in various discussion panels on territorial cooperation EU (cross-border, interregional and transnational cooperation). In 2023 participated as an expert on cross-border cooperation in congressional hearings on the development of cross-border cooperation and the discussion regarding the draft Law of Ukraine "On Cross-Border Cooperation", which was organized by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine. Based on the results of the congressional hearings, proposals were developed for the draft Law of Ukraine "On Cross-Border Cooperation", which are oriented towards the norms of EU legislation in the field of territorial cooperation (cross border, interregional and transactional cooperation), which were submitted to the Scientific Advisory Council under the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

KIU research project: Rethinking the role of cross-border cooperation on the EU's external borders in the context of Ukraine's integration into the EU

The project analyzes the importance of cross-border cooperation as an instrument of solidarity, democratization, cohesion, and the promotion of European values. Particular attention is given to legal, institutional, and socio-cultural barriers, the potential of Interreg programs, and the adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU acquis in order to ensure the resilience, security, and well-being of border regions.

Research interests:

• EU law
• legal regulation of european integration processes
• legal regulation of EU territorial cooperation (transnational cooperation, interregional cooperation and cross-border cooperation)
• legal regulation of relations between Ukraine and the EU

Roman Galych, PhD in Law (2013), Associate Professor (2019), V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (from 2020 to the present day). Head of the regional division of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Teaching: labor law, constitutional law, protection of the rights of consumers of financial services. Author of over 50 scientific publications.

KIU research project: Adaptation of the social dialogue model in Ukraine on the path to the EU

The object of our work is social dialogue in labor relations. The subject is the model of social dialogue in the EU and post-Soviet EU member states. The purpose of the project is to study the features of social partnership in the EU and international standards of social dialogue.Therefore, using methods of scientific knowledge, in particular: comparative law, induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis, modeling, we set the following tasks and study questions:
1) to investigate the institution of social partnership in the sphere of labor in the EU;
2) to study the features of models of tripartite, bilateral, bilateral + social dialogue in the EU;
3) to identify international standards for adapting models of social dialogue;
4) to offer proposals and recommendations of both theoretical and practical nature for the concept of social dialogue and legislation in Ukraine.

Research interests:

• social and labor relations
• protection of social and labor rights
• rights and freedoms of citizens
• financial security of citizens