14. August 2024
Launched in Spring 2022, Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) is a certificate program (offering ECTS credits) initiated by Central European University for junior and senior undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and PhD) students from Ukraine, whether residing in Ukraine or abroad, whose studies have been affected by the war. The name of this transnational solidarity program evokes the various nineteenth and twentieth-century underground and exile educational initiatives (such as the “flying universities”) in Eastern Europe, as well as the tradition of Invisible Colleges formed after 1989 in the region.
Structure of the program: IUFU offers in the Fall Semester of 2024 seven online interdisciplinary courses in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences that can be taken by students with different backgrounds. Each course consists of 12 sessions (100 minutes); equal to 4 ECTS credits. Students are expected to take at least one course and not more than three. Besides thematic courses, several trans-disciplinary intensive online seminars lasting for one-two days will be offered to all students of the program. Courses are taught online in late afternoons once a week per class. Classes will be recorded and available to watch online for registered students if their circumstances prevent them from attending the online sessions.
Who is eligible? Any student who has been pursuing a BA, MA, or doctoral degree program in a Ukrainian university in the academic year 2021-22, or who started her/his university studies in 2022, 2023 or 2024. Participation in the program is free of charge.
How to apply?
Applicants should fill in the application form and also send all application materials (including motivation letter, CV, and, if applicable, research project proposal) to iufu@ceu.edu.
If you cannot access or use the application form, please indicate it in your application letter to iufu@ceu.edu.
Deadline for applications: 12 September 2024, midnight, 12 pm (CET). Admitted participants will be notified on the results of research scholarship selection by 23 September the latest.
IUFU is implemented by Central European University (Budapest Campus), in cooperation with Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena, as well as other Ukrainian (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,Ukrainian Catholic University) and global university partners and research institutions (such as the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv). The main supporters of IUFU are the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
You can find more information in the PDF file below.