In the first days of the full-scale invasion, hundreds of Ukrainian researchers were heading westwards in crowded evacuation trains. At the Central Station in Warsaw they were met by their friends – researchers of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Poles helped with housing, work, medical care.

We spoke with Jerzy Duszyński, the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (we interviewed him in autumn last year) about the difficulties of the first, most complicated days of the war, about further plans to support Ukrainian researchers, as well as the Polish experience that Ukraine can use.

Professor Duszyński headed PAS from 2015 to 2022 and now continues coordinating the work on support and recovery of research in Ukraine.

We express our sincere gratitude to Jerzy Duszyński, a true friend of Ukraine, for this work!

Read the interview in the new issue of the NRFU Herald!