Opportunities

To deal with the consequences of the Russian invasion and threats the war poses on the Ukrainian art community – (MOCA) Museum of Contemporary Art NGO, in partnership with Zaborona, The Naked Room and Mystetskyi Arsenal established the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund.

This form is intended for those of you who could give a screening or presentation on Zoom to the North American universities. The idea is that the universities would be able to pay you a honorarium for this presentation and help you in a small way. Such honorariums range from university to university, but it’s usually $200-$300. A warning, sometimes it takes a while to process all the paperwork to get paid. So, sign up, tells us about yourself and your work, and hopefully someone will reach out.
Please note, there is no institution behind this, it’s just friends helping friends.

Porin kulttuurisäätö offers letters of invitation for artists and cultural workers fleeing from Ukraine and Russia. The letters are needed to cross the border with Finland.

This platform offers an overview of emergency opportunities for Ukrainian artists, such as residencies and shelter options, funding opportunities and support networks.

In support of artists, scholars, and all people forced to flee Ukraine because of the Russian invasion of the country, the editorial collective of ARTMargins Online is compiling a growing list of resources (primarily art- and research-related), including residencies, fellowships, internships, and emergency funds. We will continue to update this list as we become aware of new opportunities and resources.

Master and Ph.D students are offered a scholarship plus free accommodation.
Undergraduates are invited to attend courses and receive free accommodation.

Follow the links on the website for more information on scholarships, possibilities to pause your studies or Czech language courses for foreigners. Here you will also find other forms of assistance that Charles University offers to all of you who have found yourselves in a difficult situation as a result of the war in Ukraine.

The public universities of Castilla y León have agreed to offer 100 places to receive Ukrainian students in our Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees during this semester.

In light of the challenging situation that the Ukrainian people are now facing due to the war in their country, Bar-Ilan University has established a special fund to assist Ukrainian guest researchers, lecturers, undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows who come to the university.

If you’re an art student from Ukraine and currently in a difficult situation seeking for help from our Academy, please contact us via the listed e-mail address.

This extensive database offers an overview of available emergency funding opportunities to refugee writers and artists from Ukraine per country.

Vilnius Academy of Arts, in cooperation with the institutions and non-governmental organisations of the Republic of Lithuania, offers academic staff members and students of Ukrainian higher education institutions in art (design) to continue their academic, study and creative activities in Lithuania.

This document provides an overview of emergency relocation resources for artists and cultural workers from Ukraine. It is frequently updated.

LSE Scholars at Risk is a centrally funded initiative to support scholars at risk by enabling them to be hosted at LSE in a visiting fellow or senior visiting fellow status. For the purpose of the scheme, a scholar at risk is a scholar who faces or has recently fled from an immediate, targeted threat to their life and/or career in their home country or country of residence. LSE is open to hosting candidates with a strong academic or research core at various stages of their career. In order to be granted a place as a hosted scholar at LSE, a person would need to satisfy the usual criteria of academic merit applied to all LSE visiting fellows/senior fellows.

PhD students, postdocs and senior academics in the humanities and social sciences who do research on the history and culture of Eastern Europe from the Early Middle Ages up to the present. Academics from Ukraine (independent of their nationality) as well as from Belarus and Russia (if they distance themselves from the regime) can apply.

In solidarity with the people of Ukraine, our global network is seeking to assist as many scholars and practitioners displaced from or otherwise unable to work safely in Ukraine as possible. The following select opportunities and resources have been shared with us by partner organizations and members of our network. SAR will continue to update this list and hope that they may be useful, especially for students and others who may not qualify for SAR’s protection services. Kindly note that any general inaccuracies or outdated deadlines referenced within each of the listed resources are not SAR’s responsibility.