Grants open - Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme

The Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme is a long-term programme to support projects in Ukrainian studies for research, educational, cultural institutions, and analytical centres abroad.

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Details

Call Submission Deadline: 7 May 2025

Timeframe: Projects to be completed within 10 months

Grants: up to $15,000 funding available. Co-financing of up to 30% of total project costs and collaboration with a Ukrainian partner institution will be considered advantageous.

Application focuses: 

  • Decolonizing Knowledge about Ukraine — Rewriting Ukrainian culture and history from the perspective of decolonization and undoing epistemic biases in global scholarship about Ukraine;
  • Ukraine and the World — Ukraine’s role in European and global cultures, history, and politics;
  • Crimean Tatar studies;
  • Intercultural Ukraine — History and culture of Ukraine’s diverse communities;
  • Independent Ukraine — History of Ukraine since 1991;
  • Resilient Ukraine — Russian war against Ukraine (2014 –) and resilience: social, cultural, security, political, environmental, and economical dimensions. 

A third open call will be announced in early summer 2025. Applications not selected in the first round may be revised and resubmitted for the later calls.