Funding Opportunities and Help for Scholars from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

The EAPIL Board has been closely monitoring the evolving situation in Ukraine during the past two weeks and established contact with the Ukrainian members of EAPIL. Some members have left the country, others are still in Ukraine. All are in need of support.

Several academic institutions in Europe offer funding or have established scholarships for refugee scholars and scientists. The funding is either available for refugee scholars from any country, for refugee scholars from Ukraine only, or for refugee scholars from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The EAPIL Board has collected information on those funding opportunities, which appear below. The list is certainly not complete. We, therefore, invite all readers of the blog to let us know if there are further funding opportunities not yet mentioned.

In addition, the EAPIL wishes to communicate that some members are looking for a way to finance their living through remunerated work. If you know of any opportunities (notably work that can be done remotely from Ukraine or other places) please let us know.

The list below is reproduced (and will be updated, as the case may be) here.

For all further details and information please get in touch with the Secretary General at secretary.general@eapil.org.

General Sources

• ASEES
• The Ukraine Network
• Lviv Center
• German Funding for Researchers
• Israeli Universities’ Emergency Fellowships for Ukrainians

Germany

• Philipp Schwartz Initiative
  • Funding for refugee scholars and scientists from all countries
  • 24 (+12) months fellowship in Germany

• Volkswagen Stiftung
  • Funding for refugee scholars and scientists from Ukraine
  • Nomination for Ukrainian scholars due March 18

• Gerda Henkel Foundation
  • Grants totalling 2 million euros for Ukrainian (Belarussian and Russian) scholars

• DAFI (Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative) Scholarship programme
• Leibniz Institute for educational media fellowship (Braunschweig)
• Universität Bremen/Forschungsstelle Osteuropa
  • Funding for scholars from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (Hans Koschnick Stipendien)

• HessenFonds for refugees and researchers at risk
  • Funding for researchers at risk for 12 months
  • Nomination due by 23 March

• LMU Munich
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers at LMU

• University of Tübingen
  • 10 Research@Tübingen scholarships for Ukrainian scholars (for up to 12 months)

Western / Central Europe

• Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

• University of Graz (Austria)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

• Le Collège de France PAUSE Solidarity with Ukraine (France)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

• Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

• KU Leuven (Belgium)
  • KU Leuven is setting up a fund for the accommodation of Ukrainian students and researchers looking for shelter, or for necessary extensions of stay for those already at KU Leuven; contact: ukraine@kuleuven.be
• University of Reading (UK)
  • Sanctuary scholarships for refugee scholars

Northern Europe

• Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies (Denmark)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Sweden)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian researchers

Eastern Europe

• Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
• Polish Young Academy PAS(Poland)
  • Help for scholars from Ukraine arriving in Poland

• Polish Sociological Association(Poland)
  • Organizes accommodation and transportation from the Polish border for Ukrainian scholars and others.

Others

• NEP4DISSENT
  • EU-funded, international scholarly network dedicated to research on resistance and dissent in former socialist countries
  • Emergency Funding for Ukrainian scholars

• Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative (TSI)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian scholars

• Tel Aviv University Emergency Fund (Israel)
  • Emergency funding for Ukrainian students

Further Resources

• Scholars at Risk
  • Assists with placement, doesn’t fund scholars
• Article 26 Backpack at UC Davis
  • Provides digital storage of important academic documents for displaced scholars and students
• NAFSA Immigration Resources: Ukraine