Date: 
01 October 2024 - 09:00 to 13:00
Location: 
Online

The Ukraine Webinar took place on October 1st, 2024, and was a joint event of the ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Social Sciences and Humanities, together with SSHOC, the Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.

Ukraine has been associated with Horizon Europe since 2022 and several European social sciences and humanities (SSH) initiatives have initiated activities to support Ukrainian participation in European research infrastructures. These specific initiatives support research communities in Ukraine and the development of research infrastructure in their field. Supporting research infrastructures is not only a question of supporting research and science, but of a wider effort to produce evidence for policy. Research infrastructures in SSH collect data on society and culture that can support decision making in social, economic, cultural or health policy.

Participants discussed challenges, for instance in the field of data collection, data archiving and data access for SSH disciplines. There is also a growing interest on tools and collaborations to understand the dynamics of Ukrainian diaspora across European countries. The webinar aimed at establishing collaborations among researchers, policy makers and funders from the field. Specific support mechanisms, through national and European actors, were further discussed.

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Programme

9:00    Welcome

Hanna Snellman, Chair, ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Social Sciences & Humanities

Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, Chair, SSHOC (Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud)

Zoia O. Petrenko, Head of the expert group on issues of development and work with research and critical infrastructure, Science Development Directorate, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Olga Polotska, Executive Director, National Research Foundation of Ukraine

9:30 – 11:15 Examples of current initiatives and reflection from ESFRI-RIs

Ukrainian researchers present their activities. Afterwards follows a discussion with representatives from European ESFRI-research infrastructure on the kind of support Ukrainian scientists and institutions need to develop capacity.

Olha Kanishcheva, K-centre manager, CLARIN: Presenting the K-centre for Ukrainian NLP and corpora

Sofia Dyak, Director, Lviv Center for Urban History: Research, Networking and Public Outreach in EHRI and Open Heritage

Olena Kaminska, Research Fellow, University of Essex: Current challenges of building social science research infrastructures in Ukraine

Olga Zhmurko, Kyiv Data Archive/CSDA: Saving data for society – the Data Archive of Ukraine

Tymofii Brik, Dean, Kyiv School of Economics, National Coordinator of ESS in Ukraine: Preparing and conducting data collection for the ESS in Ukraine

Discussion

Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, Director CESSDA ERIC
Darja Fišer, Director CLARIN ERIC,
Reto Speck, Co-Director, EHRI
Angelika Scheuer, Deputy Director External, ESS ERIC

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Support of Ukrainian participation in European research infrastructures

Igor Taranov, Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine – Supporting research infrastructure in Ukraine through Horizon Europe

Frederik Søndergaard, DG RTD, European Commission, EU support for Ukraine in research and innovation

Greta Facile, Eurizon – European network for developing new horizons for RI, Experiences from the Fellowship Program “Remote Research Grants for Ukrainian Researchers”

Barbara Dammers-Szenasi, Dutch Research Council (NOW): Hop-On Call for Researchers Based in Ukraine

Tetiana Stepura, Lviv Polytechnic National University: Practical experiences with starting a collaboration based on the NWO Call for Researchers Based in Ukraine

12:30-13:00 Final Discussion

Afterwards open online plenary to informally exchange and connect. Participants can informally exchange, network and share information online in the Teams-session.