Deadline for applications – 6 August 2025
The Ukrainian Institute has opened its third call for applications within the Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme 2025-2026
The programme aims to deepen the understanding and mobilize expert knowledge of Ukraine around the world, while reinforcing cross-national and academic communication.
The programme seeks to support up to $15,000 of the total project cost for each winning project.
Qualified applicants: foreign universities, educational and cultural institutions, think tanks, and individual researchers. Co-financing of up to 30% of the total project cost, along with collaboration with Ukrainian institutions, is beneficial.
Eligible project formats are:
- University courses (including MOOCs), with priority on undergraduate level and open/general courses;
- Research visits, field trips, and summer schools focusing Ukraine and, when circumstances allow, in Ukraine;
- International and interdisciplinary scholarly conferences on Ukraine;
- Research on LRP priority topics for the given year/period;
- Translations of specialized academic literature and archival materials from Ukrainian into other languages.
2025 Competition Priority Topics:
- Decolonizing Knowledge about Ukraine — Rewriting Ukrainian culture and history from the perspective of decolonization and undoing epistemic biases in global scholarship about Ukraine;
- Ukraine and the World — Ukraine’s role in European and global cultures, history, and politics;
- Crimean Tatar studies;
- Intercultural Ukraine — History and culture of Ukraine’s diverse communities;
- Independent Ukraine — History of Ukraine since 1991;
- Resilient Ukraine — Russian war against Ukraine (2014 –) and resilience: social, cultural, security, political, environmental, and economic dimensions.
The deadline for the Third Call’s Application is August 6, 2025.
Your questions regarding the competition can be addressed at [email protected].
Contact Information
Olena Kovalenko
Academic Programm Manager, Ukrainian Institute
Contact Email
URL
https://ui.org.ua/en/sectors-en/lysiak-rudnytsky-ukrainian-studies-2
