A new Luxembourg Ukrainian Researcher Network (LURN) was unveiled in early August 2022 at the University of Luxembourg.
The LURN network aims to connect Ukrainian researchers displaced by the war and who are now temporarily working in Luxembourg for research institutions such as the University of Luxembourg, and also aims to provide additional points of contact with the Luxembourg research community.
More than 30 Ukrainian researchers displaced by the war have temporarily joined the University of Luxembourg mainly as research fellows and in some cases under temporary contracts funded by the FNR.
LURN was initiated by Dr Inna Ganschow and assistant professor Marten Düring (both of the University’s Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – CFaculty of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesDH), with the support of Dr Marina Laurent of the University’s 2.
“The objective is to give visibility to the community of Ukrainian colleagues and their activities, both among themselves and among the wider research community in Luxembourg. Since they have arrived in Luxembourg recently, we want to facilitate their contacts within a new environment”, says Dr Inna Ganschow.
“The expectation is also for the network to stimulate new research projects. Ultimately the objective is to leverage the available expertise and research to contribute to Ukraine’s recovery after the war and to prepare the country for the post-war phase”.
A first workshop of the LURN network took place on 1 August with some 40 participants from Ukraine and Luxembourg, to identify potential for common research projects which will be taken further at a next meeting in September.
If you wish to get in touch with LURN, please contact inna.ganschow@uni.lu.
Photo: Dr Inna Ganschow introduces the LURN workshop