Together with the Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, KIU invites researchers from various disciplines such as history, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, legal studies and related fields to intensively advance their research, broaden their networks and connect themselves and their work to an emerging vibrant Ukraine-related research environment located in the Berlin-Brandenburg capital area. KIU is a project initiated and led by the European University Viadrina, in cooperation with its excellent partner institutions – the Centre for East European and International Studies Berlin (ZOiS), the Humboldt University Berlin, the Free University Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.