🔹 About the Forum
The 1st Ukrainian–European Science Diplomacy Forum is organised by the Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Austria in partnership with European and Ukrainian institutions. It serves as a high-level platform for dialogue on science diplomacy, recovery, resilience, and international research cooperation.
The Forum convenes senior representatives of European and Ukrainian ministries, the European Commission, UNESCO, international research organisations, funding bodies, leading universities, and Ukrainian Science Diaspora networks across Europe.
The programme includes institutional contributions followed by three thematic panels on:
• the strategic role of the Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Europe
• multilateral science diplomacy and global research alliances
• scientific cooperation across diplomacy, heritage, arts, and culture
🔹 Organiser: Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Austria
🔹 Organising Committee
Initiator & Chair — Oleksandra Romaniuk
Strategic leadership, programme development, institutional partnerships / University of Vienna
📧 oleksandra.romaniuk@univie.ac.at
Co-Chair — Oksana Illnar-Vusyk
Institutional coordination, diaspora engagement, external relations / University of Vienna
📧 office@uscida.at
🔹 Organising Committee Members
Ivan Kononenko
Website Development & On-Site Technical Support
Khrystyna Levchenko
Creative & Technical Support
Olha Tokareva
Communications & On-Site Coordination
Maryna Yarmak
Visual Design & Branding
🔹 Sponsored by:
- Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs / Ukraine Office Austria
- OeAD Cooperation Office Lviv
🔹 Co-organised by:
- Vienna School of International Studies
- Paneuropa Austria
- Ukrainian–Austrian Association
🔹 Supported by:
- Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
- Embassy of Ukraine in Austria
- President of Ukraine’s Fund for the Support of Education, Science and Sports
- National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU)
- Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna
- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
- Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI)
- European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance
- Ukrainian Association of Students in Austria(UASTA)
- Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies (GCUS)
🔹 Invited Ukrainian Science Diaspora Networks
- Poland “Ukrainian Scientific Diaspora in Poland”
- Germany “German-Ukrainian Academic Society”
- France “Ukrainian Science Diaspora in France”
- Netherlands “Ukrainian Science Diaspora in the Netherlands”
- Sweden “Ukrainian Researchers in Sweden”
- The Czech Republic “Czech-Ukrainian Scientific Society”
- Finland “Science and Education Community of Ukrainians in Finland”
- Portugal “Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Portugal”
- Spain “Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Spain”
- Luxembourg “Ukrainian Science Diaspora in Luxembourg”
- Geneva Center for Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
- The German-Ukrainian Association for Business and Science
- Ukraine “Ukrainian Science Diaspora”
🔹 Date: 12 March 2026
🔹 Time: 10:00–18:15, followed by informal networking till 20.00
🔹 Registration starts at 09:30
🔹 Location: Aula am Campus (Hof 1), University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria
🔹 Policy & Impact Section
The Forum will result in two policy briefs addressing:
- Science diplomacy as a tool for EU–Ukraine integration
- Academic integration and support for displaced researchers
These outputs will be developed jointly by Ukrainian and European scholars and shared with policymakers and institutional partners.