Vasyl’ Stus DonNU has nine faculties and serves as a Horizon 2020 National Contact Point, promoting the integration of leading Ukrainian research into the European research area.

While its efforts to rebuild its laboratory and library facilities have been set-back by the war, in its first two years in exile it attracted 2500 new students, and has since grown to 5,000. The University Duisburg-Essen his one of its long standing international partners, and the only university in Germany at present providing direct support for teaching and research activities during and after the war.

The most urgent needs are support in teaching and degree completion. In consultations between the university leadership of the Vasyl Stus Donetzk National University and the UDE, we are responding to needs in three prioritized disciplines: foreign language education, social and political sciences, especially peace studies and international relations, and chemistry and biochemistry, including soil and water ecology. These are all areas of teaching and research excellence at the Vasyl Stus Donetzsk National University. 

1. Open existing summer schools in English, and in the winter semester, English language classes to hybrid participation by students remaining in Vinnytsja;
2. Make use of DAAD and other sources to establish new cooperations and to support mobility of students and researchers as soon as this becomes possible;
3. Support university teaching and research activities central to re-building a peaceful and democratic civil society, including journalism and communications, and a new program planned in “Peace-building in Post-Conflict Territories”;
4. Support short-term internships in laboratories, beginning with Chemistry, Bio-Chemistry, and Bio-technology to allow students to complete their degrees despite the shortage of materials for experimental research, and to facilitate strong future research cooperation where we have compatible interests when researchers return from the war effort;