Opportunities

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.

The Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin is awarding a short-term fellowship for scholars at risk from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

The Documenting Ukraine program offers one-time grants of EUR 5,000 that enable Ukrainian intellectuals and creative professionals to work on documentation projects that establish and preserve a factual record—whether through reporting, gathering published source material, collecting oral testimony, or other means—or bring meaning to events through artistic interpretation and intellectual reflection.

XTX Markets has created a new Ukrainian Global Excellence Fund of £7.5mn over two years

The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship.

The Center for European Policy Analysis is accepting applications for its new two-year in-residence program, Fellowship for Ukrainian Scholars, designed for highly qualified Ukrainian academics and policy analysts, who are unable to continue engaging in their work due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Information for applicants for the 2024 Call for Applications to MSCA4Ukraine.

The Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program (GMAF) is a semester-long, residential fellowship at MIT to be held in spring 2025 (February-May).

The initiative ‘Ukrainian Research in Switzerland’ (URIS) invites applications for a URIS Fellowship for a six-month research and teaching stay at the University of Basel for the spring semester 2025 (February – July 2025) and the autumn semester 2025 (August 2025 – January 2026).

The Refugee Academic Futures Scholarships offer financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford to students who are refugees or other people with lived experience of displacement.

The Oxford University Graduate Scholarships for Ukraine Programme (2024-25) is proudly supported by XTX Markets.

Since May 2022, the Ukrainian Institute London has offered free English classes to over 1,000 displaced Ukrainians.

This page includes useful links, information and guidance for UK hosts looking to support Ukrainians and for Ukrainians arriving in the UK.

Every year, IERES invites scholars engaged in research on Europe and Eurasia to conduct their study within our rich intellectual community. We offer both resident and non-resident opportunities to early-career postdocs, senior scholars, and professional writers and researchers.

Since 2017, the DBU has been awarding fellowships for further qualification in the field of environmental protection and nature conservation in Germany to young master’s degree and PhD students from Ukraine.

The Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium, CERIC–ERIC, is an integrated multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure whose objective is to contribute to European top-level research and technological development and demonstration programs and projects, thus representing an added value for the development of the European Research Area (ERA). The activities of the Consortium focus on the integration of national multidisciplinary analytical, synthesis and sample preparation capabilities of its Partner Facilities, operating mainly in the Central European Area, into a unique, EU-level Distributed Research Infrastructure, open to researchers at world level.