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NUPI seminar – Social trust and resilience: Recent findings from Ukraine (3 February)
Photo: AlxeyPnferov / iStock In this seminar the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) will launch the NUPI Ukraine Centre and present fresh data from the first face-to-face street survey completed in Kyiv since the Russian full-scale invasion. Agenda Kari Osland, Director of NUPI, will give some introductory remarks Natalia Moen-Larsen and John Karlsrud, Co-leaders…
The European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine
Photo: Gjøri Marie Haugen, ESS Norway On 14 January, Tymofii Brik, the national coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine, visited the Institute for Social Research (ISF) to discuss methods and challenges related to conducting the survey during wartime. The ESS is a large-scale cross‑national survey that gathers data on attitudes, opinions, and…
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State and Society Under Pressure: Internal and External Dynamics – UKRAINETT + Conference 2026
UKRAINETT+ Conference in Ukraine Studies 2026 Save the dates for the next annual UKRAINETT+ Conference, titled “State and Society Under Pressure: Internal and External Dynamics,” hosted by OsloMet on 11–12 November 2026. This event will bring together scholars and experts from a wide range of disciplines to exchange ideas, foster collaboration, and engage in meaningful…
Societal Resilience and Local Governance in Ukraine amid the Russian Full-scale Invasion (28 January)
Add to calendar During this seminar, Oleksandra Keudel will examine how Ukrainian local communities have rapidly mobilised resources, expertise, and institutional innovations to manage war-related crises since 2022. She will also discuss how pre-war decentralisation reforms and Ukraine’s evolving social contract since 2014 have shaped these community-level responses and enabled societal resilience under extreme pressure.…
Etterlyser følgeforskning på norske Ukraina-milliarder
Foto: Sverre Gunnar Haga “Vi trenger mye mer følgeforskning om de mange milliardene Norge gir til Ukraina, og vi trenger det nå.” John Karlsrud, forsker ved Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt og UKRAINETT-medlem, etterlyser en norsk forskningssatsing mot Ukraina, og at et stort program må komme i gang raskt. Les intervjuet i Khrono her.
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The European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine (14 January)
Photo: ISF The Institute for Social Research (ISF) and the Norwegian Network for Research on Ukraine (UKRAINETT) will host a seminar on 14 January 2026, from 08:30 to 10:15, focusing on the European Social Survey (ESS). ESS is a large, researcher-driven cross-national survey that collects data on Europeans’ attitudes, opinions, and behaviors every two years,…
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New UKRAINETT+ Newsletter in Ukrainian
As part of the UKRAINETT+ project, we are pleased to present our fifth Ukrainian newsletter, prepared by Olena Muradyan, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at Karazin Kharkiv University and coordinator of the Ukrainian network branch. The newsletter provides information about past and future activities of the Ukrainian research institutions that make up the UKRAINETT+ project branch…
Webinar: Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine: A Multinational Force in the Making (16 December)
In March 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a Coalition of the Willing in support of Ukraine. Today, one of the pressing questions is how this coalition can provide a credible security guarantee to Ukraine. While the idea of a reassurance force, a Multinational Force Ukraine,…
UKRAINETT+ Podcast: Місцеве самоврядування. Як війна вплинула на громади? (Local government. How did the war affect communities?)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/75T2O16C0pIepM9rUNiwB2?si=bAaDAlxPRv-g7AXqMSNaJA See below for English bio UKRAINETT PLUS – ініціатива, спрямована на зміцнення дослідницької співпраці між Норвегією та Україною. Проєкт, фінансований Дослідницькою радою Норвегії, має на меті підтримку українських дослідницьких установ, поширення знань про Україну та сприяння відновленню нашої держави. Сьогодні про те, як війна вплинула на громади. У цьому подкасті поговоримо з Андрієм Дарковічем,…
Nansen EDU – Call for applications 2025
Photo: The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) announces up to NOK 80 000 000 in grants to educational partnerships between higher education institutions in Norway and Ukraine through Nansen EDU – Norwegian–Ukrainian Cooperation in Higher Education. This call is intended for Norwegian higher education institutions…
Programme for Ukraine Expertise (Multi-Year Funding 2025) – Recipients of funding
The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) has announced the recipients of funding under the Programme for Ukraine Expertise (UA-KOMP) Multi-Year Funding 2025. We’re excited to announce that UKRAINETT has been awarded funding for 2026–2027 under the recent call! In addition, several projects involving UKRAINETT members have also received funding. Under this call, up…
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Fieldwork in times of war (13 January)
Photo: Viacheslav Ratynskyi / the Collection of war.ukraine.ua How is social science data gathered during war, and why does it matter? Join Bergen Global on 13 January for a talk with ESS representatives from Norway and Ukraine on fieldwork challenges and insights under radically different conditions. WHEN: 13 January, 08:30 – 09:30 WHERE: Bergen Global (Jekteviksbakken 31,…
International Crimes And Human Rights Violations In Ukraine: A Quest For Justice (9 December)
Photo: Oleg Mityukhin/Pixabay The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo will host an event exploring how international crimes committed in Ukraine are investigated at both national and international levels. This event is part of Oslo Peace Days. During the war, attention has been drawn not only to the humanitarian impact of…
European responses to 2022 forced migration from Ukraine (2 December)
The Centre of Migration Research (Warsaw) is hosting a webinar on 2 December 2025. Join to explore European responses to forced migration from Ukraine (since 2022). In this webinar, promoting the newly published Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, researchers present the novel Restrictive, Liberal, Selective or Universal migration and integration policy framework…
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Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies
Global Flows and Frictions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia WHEN: 10-12 June 2026 WHERE: Tartu, Estonia See more information on the event website. Conference abstract submissions are open until 25 January 2026. The Tartu Conference is a venue for academic discussion of the fundamental cultural, social, economic and political trends affecting all aspects of life…
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Third HROMADA conference and workshop held in Stockholm 12-13 November 2025
HROMADA – Nordic-Baltic Knowledge Network for the Rebuilding of Ukraine – held its third conference at the Stockholm School of Economics 12 November. It was followed by a workshop for HROMADA members on the following day. Oleksandra Deineko, Hanna Vakhitova and Aadne Aasland in panel II At the conference several issues that are high on…
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UKRAINETT+ conference: Public Keynotes
The two keynote presentations from the UKRAINETT+ conference at the University of Bergen, “The War and Beyond: Perspectives on Ukrainian Culture and Society”, are now available on our YouTube channel. Culture Bridges in Europe and Ukrainian Literature During Wartime: Identity, Resistance, and Cultural Dialogue (Bohdana Neborak) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55lI9CyaWHo Bohdana Neborak delivered a public keynote exploring how…
UKRAINETT joins the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies
UKRAINETT participated in a meeting on 23 October at the University of Oslo with First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. The occasion marked the formal accession of UKRAINETT and three Norwegian academic institutions to the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies, a growing international alliance dedicated to advancing knowledge and…
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New IFS Insights: Ukraine and the Prospect of Future Elections
Photo: Institutt for forsvarsstudier (IFS) A recently published IFS policy brief, written by Oleksandra Deineko, senior researcher, NIBR OsloMet; Researcher at the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), aims to explore the current dilemma surrounding elections in Ukraine by analysing the public discourse and the challenges of organizing elections…
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Practical workshop on trauma-informed approaches to research and teaching (11 November)
Photo: Screen Media WHERE: The University of Tromsø, UB 244 WHEN: 11 November, 09.30–16.30 The large-scale resettlement of Ukrainian refugees across Europe has drawn growing research interest from linguists, sociolinguists, sociologists, and educators. Yet, in most cases, neither researchers nor educators have specialized training in working with populations who may have been exposed to traumatic events.…