Initiatives under the Coalition

Green Corridor crossing the border to Ukraine with donations of equipment from European research institutes.

RI-Logistica Association

The RIFF project (funded by Horizon Europe) facilitates an upgrade of R&I system in Ukraine by offering a fresh and forward-looking perspective on the Ukrainian research infrastructures. RIFF will deliver “Roadmap for Recovery and Enhancement of RIs in Ukraine”.

Information Day in Kyiv

Each Center of Excellence (CoE) is envisaged to be an academic unit with ambitious research and training programs in cutting-edge computational, data-driven and theoretical basic science as well as programs in mathematics. Proposals with experimental or observational science projects supplementing the primary computational, data-driven and theoretical programs will be considered for funding in exceptional cases.

Simons Foundation

The event brought together key stakeholders in Europe to address the impact of the war in Ukraine to the country’s academic and scientific sectors. It also sought to serve as a platform for Ukrainian voices, with many Ukrainian scientists and institutions participating actively throughout the conference and in the subsequent breakout sessions.

ALLEA

The online conference mobilised the scientific community to evaluate the protection and support efforts implemented during the past year while assessing further steps toward enhanced support and post-conflict reconstruction.

ALLEA

The Leibniz Association is conducting many projects with Ukraine in Agricultural Economics, Modern and Contemporary History and Political Science, Spatial Research, and various fields of Natural and Life sciences (such as Materials Science).

Since 2023, the Fraunhofer Future Foundation has been funding nine transfer projects in its special program «Rebuilding Ukraine – Resilient and Sustainable». These projects, in collaboration with Ukrainian partner institutions from industry and science, aim to implement new technologies in the Ukrainian market. The projects selected by a jury reflect the Fraunhofer-Geselslchaft’s broad thematic expertise: from building resilient infrastructure to applications in medicine.

Fraunhofer Future Foundation

This project is initiated by League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources (LEAPS) initiative «Light for Ukraine». It aims to develop, install, commission and hand over a dedicated Ukrainian beam line (micro-X-ray probe beam line) at the Polish Synchrotron Facility SOLARIS in Kraków.

The Max Planck Society conducts many projects in Ukraine, predominantly in the Physical and Chemical Sciences, Social Sciences and Life Sciences. A flagship project is the German-Ukrainian Core of Excellence «Plasma Spin Energy» – a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle and Karazin National University in Kharkiv. The Core of Excellence focuses on producing and designing atomically manufactured spintronic materials and components. Currently based in Halle, this BMBF-funded project will relocate to Kharkiv in the future. 

Max Planck institute

This  large network-based undertaking intensifiescooperations between German and Ukrainian higher education institutions. It comprises two modules: 

1. Development of study and teaching programmes
2. Development of internationalisation and university administration
   The initiative runs from 2025 to 2029

DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service

The programme will strengthen interdisciplinary teaching and research on Ukraine-related topics, incorporating European and global perspectives. It comprises two Ukraine Centres funded from 2024 to 2028:

1. «Denkraum Ukraine» at the University of Regensburg
2. «Competence Network for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt/Oder-Berlin» at the European University Viadrina and different Berlin-based universities and research institutions

DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service

Reopened in 2025, the DAAD Information Centre Kyiv is the main contact and information point for DAAD-run activities with special focus on counselling for individual funding. Previously, this initiative partially functioned in Germany as National Academic Contact Point Ukraine (2022-2024), with the help of different members of the Alliance of German Science Organisation. Its focus was on humanitarian aid to the large number of displaced Ukrainian students and researchers.

DAAD Information Centre Kyiv

As part of the UNESCO Action Plan for Science, UNESCO’s Remote Access to Lab Equipment (UNESRALE) initiative addresses the challenges of sustaining research and innovation activities and limited access to research infrastructures and high-end laboratory equipment. This initiative is helping researchers by: providing remote access to a wide range of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment; reducing their financial burden and reliance on outsourcing and donor funding; fostering international collaboration and knowledge sharing; enabling them to conduct experiments for both research and education.  Under UNESCO’s UNESRALE the scientists also receive professional development trainings.

UNESCO is expanding its network of laboratories with high-end equipment to enable access for a wider community of Ukrainian researchers.

UNESCO Remote Access to Lab Equipment (UNESRALE) 

This ongoing survey seeks input from Ukrainian scientists impacted by the ongoing war to help maintaining relevant assessment and address their specific needs regarding research infrastructure and laboratory equipment. Aligned with UNESCO’s Remote Access to Lab Equipment (UNESRALE) initiative, this initiative aims to support remote access to scientific resources and contributes to UNESCO’s efforts to restore Ukraine’s scientific capacity. The survey targets MSc and PhD students, postdoctoral research fellows, senior researchers and faculty members in Natural Sciences.

Survey

UNESCO in Ukraine supports Biosphere Reserves to strengthen their capacities in nature conservation, environmental monitoring, and scientific research. In 2025, critical equipment was procured in response to identified needs across all eight UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserves in Ukraine, to enable staff to conduct environmental monitoring and assessment.

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Implements the Research Council of Lithuania and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine launch applications for bilateral research projects once every 2 years.

Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania

Providing funding to academic institutions in Europe to host displaced scholars, and to Ukrainian universities, academies, and research institutes to help them maintain their operations and rebuild their scientific facilities.”

ALLEA

Establishment  four   outstanding research units in Ukraine to strengthen bilateral R&D expertise and capacities  in quantum materials, natural product research, 20th-century European history, and plasma technology.

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Implements the Research Council of Lithuania.

Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania

After the Russian invasion, ALLEA  created an information sharing platform on  its website, featuring available funding and grant schemes, open positions for researchers impacted by the war, statements and activities in support of Ukrainian science from member academies.

ALLEA

Consolidating and intensifying existing cooperations between German and Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions. Two modules: Study and Teaching Internationalisation / University Administration. 30 projects supported with 24 million Euro from 2025 until 2029.

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

A strategic partnership between the UK Government, Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation and Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs to forge connections between our tech eco-systems.

UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

VUIAS supports  several events, seminars, workshops, conferences and other initiatives organised by the VUIAS fellows in their home (or host) intuitions.

Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study

Unilateral call for cooperation projects with a focus on capacity building. Open to most topics; forwarding of funding to the Ukrainian partner(s)/ Start of projects from 2026 for three years, overall funding > 2 million Euro.

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Co-funded by EU and 54 partner organisations from 33 countries inside and outside Europe (coordinated by Germany / BMFTR). 

Up to 14 transnational calls for proposals planned in the fields of prevention, early detection, intervention, and care for neurological and mental disorders. Implementation of a pilot procedure to support the participation of Ukrainian researchers (via subcontracts by German project partners). Up to 400.000 Euro     to subcontract Ukrainian institutions for the first two calls for proposals (2027-2030)

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Bilateral R&D projects within the STI cooperation between Germany and Ukraine in jointly prioritised research areas p, with over one million euros allocated for 2024–2026.  

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Call to integrate Ukrainian research partners into the ERA through joint research and innovation projects. Open-topic, bilateral or multilateral consortia for applications within the framework of Horizon Europe/FP10/ Grant amount: 40,000 Euro per project

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Initiative led by Charles Cormack Consulting and Universities UK, it has paired over 100 UK and Ukrainian universities since 2022. Supported by the UK Government and Fund of the President of Ukraine.

UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

The purpose of the CSIC Scientific Cooperation for Development Program, I-COOP, is to promote, through its own funding, collaboration between CSIC research groups and international research groups from Official Development Assistance recipient countries. 

Exceptionally, teams involving Ukrainian or institutions may request additional funding (up to €5,000 more per year) to enable their stays at CSIC to be carried out for a period exceeding 6 consecutive months within each fiscal year. 

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Two unilaterally funded projects in research and certification of the green hydrogen, started in 2023. Funding period: max. 36 months. Total funding: 0,4 million Euro

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Initiative of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), established in 2022 with a budget of €1 million to support Ukrainian students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and academic staff displaced by the war. The fund enabled Italian universities, research institutes, and AFAM institutions to host and temporarily integrate Ukrainian scholars and students, providing scholarships, research grants, and other forms of financial assistance.

Italian Ministry of University and Research

SURE-AMR is a project, funded under Horizon Europe, that supports the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics (IMBG, Kyiv) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), with the objective to strengthen its scientific excellence in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) under a One Health approach, as well as its institutional capacities, internationalisation and integration in the European Research Area. The project combines advanced training for researchers, research managers and leadership staff, targeted AMR research cases on prevention, analysis and mitigation, international mobility, and structured cooperation with European reference institutions to embed IMBG into the European Research Area. 

“Fundació Centre Tecnològic en Biodiversitat, Ecologia, Tecnologia Ambiental i Alimentària – UVic-UCC” (Fundació BETA)

AGRI-BIOCIRCULAR-HUB is an Excellence Hubs project, funder under Horizon Europe. The project sets out to builds a cross-border R&I ecosystem in sustainable agriculture and circular bioeconomy in three Widening countries (Ukraine, Poland and Latvia), drawing on the experience of BETA TC representing Catalonia as a leading R&I ecosystem in circular bioeconomy, and with the support of BGT, Belgium.

Fundació Centre Tecnològic en Biodiversitat, Ecologia, Tecnologia Ambiental i Alimentària – UVic-UCC (Fundació BETA)

A fellowship for Ukrainian scientists whose careers have been affected by the war, allowing them to continue their research and stay in academia. The programme supports postdoctoral researchers carrying out independent research projects in Germany for up to two years.

Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences

Funding highly qualified Ukrainian university graduates, PhD candidates and PostDocs for short research stays in Germany to strengthen cooperation between Ukrainian and German universities and provide young scientists access to German research infrastructures.

DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service

This programme has provided critical support implementing digital teaching in Ukraine and helping Ukrainian students to continue their studies digitally, thus also strengthening German-Ukrainian university links in the contingency situation of an ongoing war.

DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service

Organised yearly for displaced Ukrainian pupils living in Germany to gain access to Ukrainian universities (tests take place at different location Germany-wide).

The initiative provides financial resources to German universities and research institutions to support researchers who are subject to significant and continuous personal threat in their country of origin and support them to continue their work in Germany.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Geared towards researchers from abroad, from outstanding PostDocs to renowned scholars; all programmes are open for applications from Ukraine, while no quotas apply; fellows («Humboldtians») benefit from the foundation’s support and sponsorship portfolio, and unique networking opportunities within the global Humboldt network (30,000+ researchers). Since 2025, the foundation is offering an higher number of funding opportunities with the new Global Minds Initiative Germany - together with DFG German Research Foundation and DAAD German Academic Exchange Service (funded by the German Federal Government).

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Horizon Europe-funded fellowship scheme for displaced researchers from Ukraine to continue their work at institutions in EU-MS and HE Associated Countries, while maintaining their connections to R&I communities in Ukraine; reintegration in Ukraine can also be facilitated if conditions are met (preventing permanent brain drain); also, the funding scheme contributes to the internationalisation of Ukraine’s R&I communities at home and abroad; MCA4Ukraine is implemented by a consortium: Scholars at Risk Europe (Maynooth University) (lead), Humboldt Foundation & European University Association; in association with PAUSE (Collège de France) and Scholars at Risk Network. Currently, no further call is planned.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The DFG has opened all its regular funding programmes for international participation and welcomes project applications in cooperation with researchers from Ukraine at any time. Since 2022, the DFG’s support for researchers who have fled their home countries has also applied to refugees from Ukraine. Within this initiative, Ukrainian researchers may be easily integrated into running DFG-funded projects. Also, Ukrainian refugee researchers can conduct a research project under the W. Benjamin Programme, where the restriction of the target group to the early postdoc phase that otherwise exists under this programme does not apply.

DFG German Research Foundation

Under the existing programme «Cooperation with Developing Countries», applicants in Germany can now apply for funds to cover the living expenses of Ukrainian project leaders for project implementation in Ukraine.

DFG German Research Foundation

The Max Planck Society updated its guidelines for Ukrainian scholarship holders, meaning doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships can now be awarded for up to twelve months in Ukraine. Personal acceptance at the institute is not currently required. In addition, twelve EIRENE Max Planck Ukraine Cooperation and Mobility Fellowships connect Ukrainian researchers with Max Planck Institutes in Germany, supporting their mobility and basic expenses.

Since 2024, this represents a dedicated funding line for Ukrainian students to attend summer schools in Germany.

As part of the UNESCO Action Plan for Science, UNESCO initiated a nationwide survey on the mental health and psychosocial support of the scientific community in Ukraine. The mental health of scientists and researchers is an area that rarely enters formal regulations or public discourse. Attention is predominantly focused on the goals and outcomes of scientific activity, while the condition of those who achieve them systematically remains out of focus. The results of the study will inform the policies and measures to reduce the negative impacts of war on Ukrainian scientists and researchers.