Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin (KIU) • European University Viadrina

Eröffnung von KIU mit Eduard Mühle, Susann Worschech und Anton Hofreiter

Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies officially opened

Rewatch the livestream of the opening ceremony of KIU

About

The KIU competence network is a four-year DAAD-funded project to strengthen Ukraine-related research, teaching, networking and transfer activities. The competence network, initiated and led by the European University Viadrina, includes the ZOiS, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.

The project aims at establishing a visible center of Ukraine-related teaching and research. Based on close scientific cooperation in the German capital region and in an international framework, innovative research, new academic courses and a successful transfer of Ukraine-related knowledge in and between science, politics, business and society will be ensured.

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News

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Start of the lectures series on Monday, 21st of October 2024

On Monday, October 21, 6 p.m., the Berlin-based Ukrainian photographer and writer Yevgenia Belorusets (*1980, Kyjiw) will open the public KIU lecture series in the winter semester 2024/2025 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The opening lecture will focus on the narrative dimension of the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and the question of why it is so difficult to process this destruction in literature. The series forms the first part of a multi-semester lecture series of the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin (KIU), which is organized alternately by the members of the network led by the European University Viadrina.

KIU on ceecon 7./8.10.2024

The KIU is represented at this year's annual conference of the DGO (Deutsche Gesellschaft Osteuropakunde e.V.). On onday, October 7, 2024, 2.30 to 4 p.m., KIU project coordinator Dr. Susann Worschech will participate in the panel discussion “Support, Reconstruction, Reforms: How can we make Ukrainian cooperation in research even more attractive”? On the second day of the conference, between 13:00 and 13:45, she and Guido Hausmann (University of Regensburg) will present the KIU as one of the two DAAD-funded projects for the establishment of Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies in Germany.

GANNA Ensemble plays music while KIU Opening ceremony

Rewatch the livestream of the opening ceremony

On 11 July, the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin (KIU) was officially opened at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). The livestream is available to rewatch at the Viadrina YouTube channel.

Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies (KIU) officially opened

The opening ceremony of the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies (KIU) was celebrated on 11th July 2024, a good five months after the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) made the decision to support the KIU in Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin with 2.5 million Euros. During the ceremony, tangible and specific steps for action were presented and a debate was held on the role that Ukrainian studies will play in those steps.

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Fellowships and Programmes

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Fellowships

The KIU Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies supports innovative and significant research on topics related to Ukraine.

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Programmes

The KIU Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin offers various programmes. Among them is its first Summer School on "War in Ukraine: Destruction of heritage – mastering legacy".

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