Events and Activities
Building Capacity in the Ukrainian R&I Research Ecosystem: SE-NRFU Webinar Series |
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Since the outbreak of war in February 2022, Science Europe and its members have taken actions to support the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) and the Ukrainian research ecosystem. As part of these efforts, NRFU and Science Europe are organising a series of three online workshops between September 2025 and February 2026 to tackle core topics that are priority areas for the Ukrainian research ecosystem.
About the Webinars
The overall objective of the webinar series is to support the capacity-building efforts of the Ukrainian research ecosystem.
The online workshops will address three priority areas identified by the National Research Foundation of Ukraine:
- Ensuring a good balance between bottom-up calls, mainly for basic research projects, and top-down calls for applied research projects.
- Developing and implementing effective monitoring tools within the project life-cycle and beyond with an emphasis on the (potential) impact of the project.
- Practices and policies that integrate Open Science principles into both evaluation procedures and project implementation.
Webinars Schedule
- 19 September 2025 – Balancing bottom-up and top-down research funding
- 25 November 2025 – Developing and implementing monitoring tools for R&D projects
- 20 February 2026 – Open Science policies and practices of research funding organisations
Registration & Details
All three webinars are scheduled to take place from 10.00–11.30 CET (11.00–12.30 EET).
The language of the webinars is English (simultaneous translation will be provided).
To participate in the webinars, please fill out the registration form.
Stay tuned for updates on the official websites of Science Europe and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact:
Science Europe
Adrien Bream – Senior Policy Officer, Adrien.Bream@scienceeurope.org
National Research Foundation of Ukraine
Tetiana Machulina – Head of the Department of Communications and International Cooperation, t.machulina@nrfu.org.ua
Webinar on the RCN–NRFU Initiative “Recruit a Researcher from Ukraine for an Ongoing Researcher Project” |
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The National Research Foundation of Ukraine invites you to join an information webinar dedicated to the RCN–NRFU initiative “Recruit a Researcher from Ukraine for an Ongoing Researcher Project”.
This programme is designed to support and sustain Ukrainian research during wartime by integrating Ukrainian scholars into active Norwegian research projects and fostering stronger scientific collaboration between the two countries. Applications may be submitted by research groups whose projects started between 1 August 2024 and 31 October 2025, and that are ready to include a Ukrainian researcher in their team.
Who should attend:
Ukrainian researchers seeking new avenues for international collaboration.
Norwegian researchers and teams planning to apply and interested in learning more about the call.
Format: A brief introduction will be followed by a live Q&A session, where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the organisers.
Date: 22 September 2025
Time: 14:00–15:00 (Kyiv time)
Language: English
Registration is required. Please fill out the online form at the following link.
Ukraine Seminar in Fundamental Physics |
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We are organizing an online seminar series intended to promote scientific interaction with Ukrainian scientists during wartime and to lay the foundation for future scientific collaborations and exchange visits. The seminar series will highlight the latest developments in fundamental physics, spanning particle physics to gravity and cosmology, and the evolution of our Universe on both the smallest and largest scales.
The seminar organizers condemn the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. We call on all civilized countries, and the scientific community in particular, to show their solidarity with Ukraine and their support for the Ukrainian people.
We would like to invite you to take part in the upcoming 4th Seminar.
Time: Thursday, November 23, 2023, at 4pm CET (3pm GMT, 5pm EET, 10am EST)
Speaker:Prof. Dr. Kai Schmitz (University of Münster, Münster, Germany), a member of NANOGrav Collaboration
Title: Probing New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier
Abstract: Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations around the globe recently announced compelling evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves permeating our entire Universe, that is, a gravitational-wave background (GWB) reaching us from all directions and at all times. This breakthrough achievement has important implications for astrophysics, as the GWB signal, if genuine, is likely to originate from a cosmic population of supermassive black holes orbiting each other at the centers of galaxies. As I will illustrate in this talk, the new PTA data is, however, also of great interest to the high-energy physics community, as it allows us to probe a broad range of particle physics models of the early Universe that predict the generation of a cosmological GWB in the Big Bang. In this sense, the PTA data opens a new window onto the very early Universe and enables particle physicists to constrain scenarios of new physics beyond the Standard Model at extremely high energies. In my talk, I will give an overview of these searches for new physics at the PTA frontier and highlight several cosmological scenarios that underline the relevance of PTA observations for fundamental problems such as dark matter, neutrino masses, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. Finally, I will conclude with a brief outlook on future measurements that may help in discriminating between a GWB signal of astrophysical origin and a GWB signal from the Big Bang.
This seminar series is co-organized by Neil Turok (Univ. of Edinburg, UK and Perimeter Institute, Canada) and Stanislav Vilchinskii (Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv, Head of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine).
Local organizing committee and technical support: Artem Chumachenko, Volodymyr Gorkavenko, Oleksandr Sobol, Olena Teslyk (Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv, Ukraine).
For any questions regarding this seminar series, please, contact us via email oleksandr.sobol@knu.ua