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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 December)
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 December, 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.…
Healthcare Preparedness in the Nordic Region: How Prepared Are We? (November 12)
WHERE: Litteraturhuset Oslo, Kverneland WHEN: 12 November, 14:00 – 15:30 Healthcare preparedness has received a lot of attention in recent years — and for good reason. The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have demonstrated how vulnerable our societies can be without a comprehensive and inclusive preparedness system. The Nordic countries generally have strong welfare…
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Kronikk: Noreg treng meir Ukraina-kompetanse
“Noreg gir over 200 milliardar i støtte til Ukraina. I ein slik situasjon er det behov for å gjere mykje meir for å spreie kunnskap om Ukraina i det norske samfunnet og hjelpe ukrainarane til å sikre seg den kompetansen dei treng for å stå imot den russiske invasjonen og byggje opp landet igjen.” Martin…
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Frokostseminar om ukrainsk økonomi og norsk-ukrainsk økonomisk samarbeid (31 Oktober)
https://youtu.be/LFhXX-TVP0Q UKRAINETT og OsloMet har gleden av å invitere til et åpent frokostseminar om ukrainsk økonomi og norsk-ukrainsk økonomisk samarbeid. NÅR: Fredag 31 oktober, 08.30–10.30 HVOR: OsloMet, Pilestredet 44, Elisabeth Lampes hus, Auditorium V130. STREAMING: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://oslomet.zoom.us/j/65603770225Meeting ID: 656 0377 0225Password: 056301 Vennligst vær oppmerksom på at du kan bli bedt om å oppgi…
Ukraine at War: How to mobilize the people for war? (28 October)
Photo: IFS After four years of fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion, questions of mobilisation and public resilience are more urgent than ever. This seminar, hosted by The Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) under the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats, offers expert insights into how mobilisation policies have developed and what they mean for the course…
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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…
Ellisiv of Kyiv, Queen of Norway One Thousand Years Ago (24 October)
Illustration: students of Department of Visual Design and Art, Lviv Polytechnic National University. Who was Queen Ellisiv, born one thousand years ago in Kyiv? She married King Harald Hardruler Sigurdsson of Norway in 1044, becoming the first Norwegian queen not born in Scandinavia. This mini-conference aims to shed light on what we know about Ellisiv…
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Seminar on Developments in the Law of State Immunity (20 November)
Photo: bloodua / Mostphotos.com The Research Group for Human Rights and International Law at UiT The Arctic University of Norway will host a seminar on Developments in the Law of State Immunity on 20 November 2025 in Tromsø. WHEN: 20 November, 2025 (08.30 – 17.15) WHERE: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (Teorifagbygget House 1, Room 1.343)…
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Fourth Round of UKRAINETT+ Seed Funding
The UKRAINETT+ project provides seed funding to support project development and research cooperation aimed at Ukraine-related research. The fourth round (of six) of seed funding is now open for application. The deadline is 1 November 2025. A Norwegian institution must be the applicant and project coordinator. At least two institutions should be involved in the…