Official Opening of the KIU Graduate Programme in Ukrainian Studies – You’re Invited!

On 16 June 2025, the first graduate programme for Ukrainian Studies in Germany will be officially launched at the European University Viadrina.

Entitled ‘Resilience, restoration and transformation: Ukraine in a world of turmoil’, this structured three-year PhD programme will host twelve doctoral students conducting research on Ukraine-related topics in the fields of linguistics, history, economics, digital and communication studies, cultural studies, social sciences, and law.

With this broad range of research activities it aims to make an important contribution to establishing Ukrainian Studies in Germany.

We warmly invite you to the official opening of the KIU graduate programme and would be delighted if you could join us in welcoming our twelve doctoral students.

The event will take place on 16 June 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Logensaal of the European University Viadrina.
Volodymyr Sheiko, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv, will deliver a keynote lecture on the importance of Ukrainian studies for the security of Ukraine and Europe. He will later be joined by Prof. Dr Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Prof. Dr Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine) to discuss resilience and the role of universities and research in the reconstruction of Ukraine. This will be followed by a poster session, where the doctoral students will present their dissertation projects.

After the official programme, we invite you to a reception starting at approximately 8:00 p.m. 
We kindly ask you to register by 13 June 2025 by sending an email to kiu@europa-uni.de.