Science For Ukraine

About Us

Who we are

#ScienceForUkraine started as a grass-root initiative run by an international community of volunteer scholars and students since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine. As of 2 August, 2023 we are an NGO under Latvian law registered under 40008327275 at Akadēmijas laukums 1, Riga, Latvia, LV-1050.

The coordinators and founding members include Sanita Reinsone (ILFA, University of Latvia), Michael E. Rose (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), and Oleksandra V. Ivashchenko (University Medical Center Groningen).

Contact

You can reach us via info@scienceforukraine.eu. Use press@scienceforukraine.eu for press-related requests. For data-related matters, please use data@scienceforukraine.eu.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to support the Ukrainian academic community in surviving the war and to help ensure the continuity of Ukraine's science and strengthen its presence in the international science arena.

The NGO works in several directions with the following objectives:

  • First, to collect and disseminate information about support opportunities at the university, national, and international level for Ukrainian researchers and students.
  • Second, to monitor the current situation of Ukrainian research, higher education institutions, and scholars and students (both those in Ukraine and those who have fled), to closely follow decisions taken by governments and funding agencies, announced support mechanisms and general funding schemes.
  • Third, to raise awareness among the international academic community, national governments, funding bodies, and international organisations of the need to support Ukrainian scientists and students.
  • Fourth, to build partnerships with Ukrainian and international academic institutions, research organisations, and initiatives supporting scholars at risk in order to leverage impact, exchange information, and implement joint efforts in support of the Ukrainian academic community. As well, to liaise with national and European funders and organisations to provide targeted support for Ukraine’s academic community.

Background information

  • 3 month report for information about the first few days and how we worked broken down by country, also contains statistics
  • Twitter thread, where we collected success stories until August 2022
  • YouTube channel, where we collected short videos of Ukrainians that found employment through us
  • THE article specifically about the UK situation
  • Letter to the Editor of Nature Human Behavior specifcally for statistics on the growth of the database

Publications by members of the initiative

Volunteers

Before we registered as NGO, #ScienceForUkraine was an inititative of volunteers. More than 130 individuals from all over the world were actively working towards our goals at some point. Here we list some of them to say a big Thank You:

Zhanna Santybayeva (Association Femmes & Sciences), Weronika Wolszczak (Berkeley Lab), Valentina Mosienko (University of Bristol), Taichi Ochi (University of Groningen), Svetlana Dimitrova (University of Sofia), Susan Spesyvtseva (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), Sergio Ponsá Salas (Central University of Catalonia), Sandis Sauka (University of Latvia), Olivier Morin (CNRS/ENS Paris; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Nikos Bardis (Hellenic Army Academy), Nicoleta Spinu (Liverpool John Moores University), Morten Irgens (Kristiania University College), Megi Maci (Massachusetts General Hospital), Mateusz Kwaśnicki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology), Matīss Reinfelds (Association of Latvian Young Scientists), Maryna Shevtsova (University of Ljubljana; KU Leuven), Martin Víta (Masaryk University), Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg), Marina Pelepets, Mari Valdur (Tallinn University), Marcin Bartosiak (University of Pavia), Maksym Andriushchenko (EPFL Lausanne), Magdalena Wnuk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Maciej Maryl (Polish Academy of Sciences), Maarten van Meerbeek (Leiden University Medical Center), Luke Drury (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), Lucas Guimarães Abreu (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Kris Van Heuckelom (KU Leuven), Katri Mäkinen-Rostedt (Tampere University), Katarina Juríková (University of Trento; Comenius University in Bratislava), Karen de Pauw (Ghent University), Justīne Jaudzema (ILFA, University of Latvia), Johannes Knörzer (ETH Zurich), Jessie Labov (Central European University), Iryna Gozhyk (CNRS/Saint-Gobain Recherche), Irene Gutiérrez, Irena Remestwenski (University of Vienna), Inna Leykin (Open University of Israel), Inês Figueira (Nova Medical School), Ieva Tihovska (Association of Latvian Young Scientists), Håkan Lane (Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane), Elīna Gailīte (ILFA, University of Latvia), Ieva Weaver (ILFA, University of Latvia), Eleonora Narvselius (University of Lund), Eleonora Losiouk (University of Padua), Ekaterina Kutafina (RWTH Aachen), Cristina Rujan (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Christian Hauschke (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Hannover), Brokoslaw Laschowski (University of Toronto), Bogdan Garkusha (University of Würzburg), Asta Skujytė-Razmienė (Asta Skujytė-Razmienė), Anya Skatova (University of Bristol), Annina Lattu (Tampere University), Anna Severin (University of Bern), Anna Rogers (Copenhagen University), Anna Kłos (Military University of Technology, Warsaw), Anna K. Bobak (University of Stirling), Alina Nynchyk (University of Manchester), Albert Palou Vilar (Central University of Catalonia)

For Technical and Design Assistance we thank:

Zosia Dzierzawska, Fidel Thomet (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam), Uldis Ķirsis (ILFA, University of Latvia), Antra Upeniece (ILFA, University of Latvia), Agnieszka Zalotyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Krišs Salmanis