Freie Universität Berlin cooperates with Ukrainian partner institutions through interdisciplinary research and education projects financed by Erasmus+, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and other external funding programs. This fosters academic exchange and helps to develop sustainable networks.

Ongoing Projects

• German Language, Literature and Culture: Institutional Partnerships Worldwide (GIP) – “Poetic and Rhetorical Functions of Language”
• Berlin-Kyiv Professorship for Ukrainian Studies 2024/2025 at the OEI
• Participation in the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies – In cooperation with the KIU, the OEI organizes annual workshops with Ukrainian scholars on the debate surrounding how best to rebuild Ukraine. The workshops address topics such as access to and provision of public services (from health, to education, to transportation and housing); everyday resilience of individuals and institutions in wartime; the impacts of the war on food security among the Ukrainian population; the political economy of reconstruction; and much more.
• Prehistoric archaeology: Settlements of the Zarubintsy Culture: Studies on the Settlement of the Middle Dnipro, Upper Dnipro, and Polesia Region during the Early Pre-Roman Iron Age and Early Imperial Period (research associate, Dr. Vasile Larmulschi)
• Center for European Integration: Europe Union’s Horizon 2020: H2020-LC-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2018-2019-2020: Understanding and Strengthening EU Foreign and Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World (research associate, SFB 700, Dr. Gregor Walter-Drop)
• Impact of Tax Incentives on Industry Performance and Growth: The Case of Ukraine’s Agriculture – funded by the Siemens Foundation (https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/wirtschaft/UKRAINE/index.html)
• Erasmus+ exchange programs
• Ukrainian classes at the Language Center
• WEFE (War Effects on Food Systems and Environment, project term 2024–2026) is a network of researchers, journalists, and representatives of environmental organizations based at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research that investigates the impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine on ecosystems and food security. Several scientists from Ukraine are involved in the WEFE project.

Completed Projects

• The German Language, Literature and Culture: Institutional Partnerships Worldwide (GIP) program between the Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures and the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and the Center for German Studies at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv (2006 to 2016).
• Graduate school within the framework of the Vladimir Admoni Program between the Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures and the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and the Center for German Studies at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv (2007 to 2016).