MAIN GOALS OF THE NETWORK
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➢ FOSTER academic cooperation with Ukraine
➢ IMPROVE knowledge about Ukraine abroad
and vice versa
➢ INCREASE visibility of Ukrainian scientists
and their achievements
➢ SUPPORT career development of the
Network members and early-career
researchers in Ukraine
➢ SUPPORT reforms in Ukrainian science
THE NGO
The German-Ukrainian Academic Society/
Die Deutsch-Ukrainische Akademische Gesellschaftwas founded in Berlin on the 11th of July 2016 by 16 researchers from 10 German cities
and registered in February 2017 by the Amtsgericht Berlin, VR 35585 B
46 CURRENT MEMBERS (4.10.2018)
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Including:
• 13 professors
• 21 PhDs
• 10 PhD students
• 2 professors in Ukraine (Kharkiv & Sumy)
REGIONAL CONTACT POINTS
GERMANYBerlin/Brandenburg: Olesia Lazarenko
Dmytro Puchkov
Dresden: Vyacheslav Khavrus
Greifswald: Vira Makovska
Roman Dubasevych
Hannover: Nataliya Butych
Stuttgart/ Tübingen: Olga Garaschuk
AUSTRALIA Sergiy Bogomolov (Canberra)
UK Dmitri Finkelshtein (Swansea),
Nataliya Rumyantseva (Greenwich)
WORKING GROUPS
• Communication & Public Relations (Website, Newsletter, etc.)
• Funding
• Laboratory Equipment
• Mentoring
• Organization of the Annual Meeting and of the Annual PhD Thesis
Presentation Contest
• Outreach (Expert Lectures in Ukraine)
• Reviewers (grants, papers, etc.)
• Organization of Summer Schools
APPOINTMENTS
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Members of our Society:
Dr Roman Dubasevych was appointed
Junior Professor for Ukrainian Cultural Studies
(Lehrstuhl für Ukrainische Kulturwissenschaft)
at the University of Greifswald
Dr Andrii Portnov was appointed
Professor for Entangled History of Ukraine
at the European University “Viadrina”, Frankfurt/ Oder
AWARDS
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Our Society member and the treasurer
Dr Nelia Wanderka was elected a member of the
distinguished International Field Emission
Society (IFES) Fellows and distinguished with a
medal.
“The designation of “IFES Fellow” was established to
recognize eminent scientists in the field of field emission,
field ionization, atom probe characterization, and related
phenomena”.
Dr Wanderka was nominated and elected by her peers for her
outstanding efforts that have not only pushed the frontiers of
knowledge in the various fields of interest, especially her work in
amorphous metallic alloys, superalloys, eutectic systems, and high
entropy alloys, but also her distinguished and dedicated service to
the society.
REGIONAL EVENTS
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Berlin: Lecture series “Science first hand”Organized by the Berlin-Brandnburg Regional Group (Dr. Olesia Lazarenko/ Dr Dmytro Puchkov) in cooperation with the
Embassy of Ukraine in Germany. 13 events so far, 6 during the reporting period:
9 October 2017 Dr Olesia Lazarenko, European University “Viadrina”, Frankfurt/ Oder“Ukrainian Language in Germany: from Saturday schools to university studies. History, development and current state“
8 February 2018 Prof. Olga Garaschuk, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen“Novel approaches to understanding brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease”
22 March 2018 Dr Alexander Kratochvil, Humboldt University of Berlin“In the footsteps of the stalker: the zone as a place of collective memory (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl)“
24 May 2018 Prof. Andrii Portnov, European University “Viadrina”, Frankfurt/ Oder“Attitudes to Ukraine in the German Society: Historical Stereotypes and Participant Observations”
7 June 2018 Prof. Jochen Fornasier, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main„An den Ufern des Bugs. Deutsch-ukrainische Ausgrabungen in der antiken Stadt Olbia Pontike“
6 July 2018 Prof. Olexiy Verkhratsky, University of Manchester, UK„Neuroglia: supportive cells that protect the brain“
Dresden Stammtisch, organized by Dr Viacheslav Khavrus and Dr Denys Makarov
PhD THESIS PRESENTATION CONTEST
2018: 4 October 2018, Dresden within the framework of the
Annual Meeting, supported by Nomad Bioscience GmbH
and the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany
• 25 applications from 6 countries (Germany, Ukraine,
Austria, Poland, Portugal and the UK)
2017: 6 October 2017, Augsburg within the framework
of the Annual Meeting, supported by Nomad Bioscience
GmbH, Global Business Management
(Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Augsburg)
and the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany
2016: 21 September 2016, Berlin within the framework of
the Forum “UkraineLab: Playing Polyphony of the Society.
Exploring the European Identity”, in cooperation with
MitOst e.V., and supported by Nomad Bioscience GmbH and
by the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany
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MEETINGS & EVENTS
• Forthcoming: Forum of Ukrainian Research Diaspora “Advancing
science through international cooperation”, Kyiv (20-22.10.2018)
• German-Ukrainian Forum of Young Researchers, Ukraine (7-12.12.2017)
& Germany (02.2018)
• Workshop on “Teaching and studying Ukrainian in Germany”, within the
framework of the German-Ukrainian Year of languages 2017/2018 (Berlin, 17-
18.11.2017). In cooperation with the University of Greifswald, Embassy of
Ukraine in Germany and die Deutsche Assoziation der Ukrainisten e. V. 28
participants from 20 institutions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
THE GERMAN-UKRAINIAN FORUM OF
YOUNG RESEARCHERS
Special project of the DAAD, funded by the BMBF,
approx. EUR 80T (Grant recipient: University of Tübingen, in
cooperation with the German-Ukrainian Academic Society)
Organizers: Prof. Olga Garaschuk, Dr Oksana Seumenicht,
Nataliya Butych
2-part event:
• Exploratory and networking tour “Research in Ukraine”, 7-
12.12.2017 Ukraine (Kyiv-Lviv/ Kharkiv)
• Grant writing and coaching workshop, 9-10.02.2018 (Berlin)
Participants: 45 postdocs and junior PIs, from Germany & Ukrainehttp://ukrainet.eu/2017/09/29/the-german-ukrainian-forum-of-young-
researchers-call-for-participants/
SUMMER SCHOOL
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FAIR PLAY AND EQUAL CHANCES AT HIGHER EDUCATION
INSTITUTIONS. DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES FROM
GERMANY, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE
Brussels (Belgium), Essen (Germany), July 09-17, 2018
Organizers:
➢ Dr. Viktoriya Sokolova
➢ Oksana Huss
➢ Oleksandra Kryshtapovych
➢ Prof. Dr. Matthias Epple
Resolution: https://www.uni-
due.de/imperia/md/content/ak_epple/aktuelles/essen-
workshop_resolution_final.pdf
Learn more about the project: https://www.uni-
due.de/chemie/ak_epple/en/fairplay2018.php
ALUMNI-NETWORK UKRAINE-GERMANY
SERIES OF EVENTS
LVIV, KYIV, ODESA & KHARKIV, 2018
Lead by the Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Würzburg, in cooperation with
• The German-Ukrainian Academic Society
• German-Ukrainian Forum (Deutsch-Ukrainische
Forum e.V.)
• Humboldt Club Ukraine
• V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
• Igor Sikorsky Polytechnical Nat‘l University Kyiv
• Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv
• Bogomolets National Medical University
• Kyiv Academic University
• Ukrainian National Akademy of Science
• Ivan Franko National University Lviv
• Polytechnical National University Lviv
• Medical National University Lviv
• Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv
• Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University
• Polytechnical National University Odesa
• Medical National University Odesa
https://www.uni-
wuerzburg.de/en/alumni/inte
rnational-activities/alumni-
network-ukraine-germany/
EXHIBITION “50 INVENTIONS BESTOWED BY UKRAINE
TO THE WORLD”, DRESDEN, 5-12 OCTOBER 2018
Exhibition was provided by the Ukraine
Crisis Media Center.
The Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal
Republic of Germany funded the
translation and publishing of the
accompanying book (German/ Ukrainian),
and sponsored this exhibition, organized at
TU Dresden and IFW, Dresden within the
framework of the annual meeting of the
German-Ukrainian Academic Society.
https://www.ifw-dresden.de/news-events/public-
events/
• Panel discussion at the DAAD Alumni Meeting, organized on the occasion of the
20-year anniversary of the DAAD Information Center in Kyiv (Kyiv, April 2018)
• “Ukraine Round-Table”, BMBF, led by the head of the Ref. 213 “Cooperation with
Eastern Partnership Countries, Russia, Central Asia” MinR’in Dr S. Kieffer (Berlin,
June 2018)
• Meetings with the Baden-Württemberg International and organization of the
forthcoming visit of the BW delegation to Ukraine (19-21.10.2018)
• Panel discussion on research cooperation between Germany and Ukraine, at
the Bavarian-Ukrainian Higher Education Day (Würzburg, 1.10.2018), organized
by BAYHOST
REPRESENTATION & LIAISON ACTIVITIES
Web page: http://ukrainet.eu,
Newsletter: 14 issues since February 2016 (including
2 in 2018), distributed to 500+ subscribers
LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8473594
400+ members from approximately 20 countries, including Ukraine, Germany, France, USA, UK, Australia, Italy, Israel, Canada,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Belgium, Belarus, Finland, Norway, Sweden and
Switzerland
Press-releases: two (Oct. 2017 and Feb. 2018)
COMMUNICATION
DAAD Newsletter/ Web-page (18.04,2018):
Austausch mit der Ukraine: Starke Netzwerke „Das Kiewer DAAD-
Informationszentrum feiert Ende April mit einem großen Alumnitreffen sein
20-jähriges Bestehen. Und auch die Deutsch-Ukrainische Akademische
Gesellschaft setzt sich für nachhaltigen Austausch ein.“
https://www.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/62256-austausch-mit-der-ukraine-starke-
netzwerke/
BMBF-Bericht „Bundesbericht über Forschung und Innovation 2018“
https://www.bmbf.de/pub/Bufi_2018_Hauptband.pdf
OUR WORK IS ACKNOWLEDGED