The ongoing crisis in Ukraine is causing many casualties, the displacement of millions of people, and is destroying a large amount of infrastructure in Ukraine.
Science Europe and its Member Organisations express their solidarity with and support for, the people of Ukraine. Ukraine is a valued member of the international research community and a strong partner of European research funding and performing organisations.
We reiterate our call to peace and respect for international law and human rights. In line with the international outcry against this act of aggression, Science Europe and its Member Organisations have made statements and undertaken actions to support the people of Ukraine, including its researchers.
The overview below is not exhaustive and is being updated as the situation evolves.
The Academy of Finland has granted a total of €1.14 million in mobility funding to invite researchers from Ukraine to continue their research in Finland for a maximum period of two years.
The Academy of Finland has also discontinued all scientific collaboration with Russian partners, and closely scrutinises applications that plan for cooperation and/or mobility with Russian partners.
The Austrian Science Fund is taking several measures in response to Russian aggression, including:
The Czech Science Foundation is recommending its funded and applicant grantees to consider the participation of Ukrainian scientists in collaborations, as well as considering to increase the funding for grants to postdocs from abroad to work in the Czech republic for three years.
The Dutch research council has suspended partnerships with Russian and Belarussian organisations.
The Dutch Research Council has established one-million euro emergency fund to support Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarussian co-workers within NWO.
The Eötvös Loránd Research Network have created an overview of offers of support from its research centres, including the opening of positions to Ukrainian researchers and provision of accommodation.
The Estonian Research Council has prepared two support measures for the Ukrainian researchers who have fled to Estonia. The first one allows the researchers to get acquainted with the research conducted in Estonian universities and to improve their professional skills. The second, separate measure allows universities to hire an Ukrainian researcher to their ongoing project team.
The Foundation for Polish Science has launched a dedicated funding scheme in SSH for researchers working in Ukrainian research institutions.
It is also working on launching a contact point where scientists from Ukraine will be able to obtain information about current opportunities for them in Poland, and has encouraged its excellence centres to hire scientists fleeing from Ukraine.
The French National Research Agency has set up an assistance mechanism to support scientific communities that face challenges due to the current situation in Ukraine, in preparing or conducting projects (extension of post-docs, researcher accommodation, and so on).
Pause-Ukraine and the ANR, under the guidance of MESRI, have developed a jointly co-ordinated scheme to support and strengthen the accommodation of Ukrainian scientists in French laboratories.
The Fund for Scientific Research has put in place exceptional ‘Scientific Solidarity Credits’ to aid the accommodation of Ukrainian researchers.
The German Research Foundation has discontinued scientific collaborations with Russian partners in support of the German government's consistent response to the Russian aggression.
The German Research Foundation has since 2015 run a programme to support refugee researchers. The support was most recently extended by the end of last year.
The Health Research Board Ireland has announced a new supplementary grant scheme where existing HRB grant holders can apply for support to integrated displaced researchers from Ukraine into their projects and activities.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Research Council of Lithuania has already provided almost 2.9 Eur million for the recruitment of scientists from Ukraine (1.8 million Eur) and for the funding of collaborative research projects (1.1 million Eur). Currently, 44 Ukrainian scientists are working in various research and study institutions in Lithuania, up from 71 last year.
The Luxembourg National Research Fund has set up a temporary measure to provide support for researchers who have fled the war in Ukraine.
INFN currently hosts 17 Ukrainian scientists at its institutes following a call for proposals for research grants. Their positions were renewed in 2024.
The National Science Centre has created an overview of its support actions, including a special funding scheme for researchers from Ukraine and encouragement towards its grant winners to employ Ukrainian researchers in their projects. NCN has released information about the winners of the NCN programme for Ukraine.
It has also suspended collaborations with Russian research institutes for its grantees.
The Research Council of Norway has put on hold all institutional agreements between Norwegian and Russian research and educational institutions.
The Research Foundation Flanders has discontinued its partnership with the Russian Science Foundation and no longer funds Russian or Belarussian research partnerships.
Science Foundation Ireland has launched a new supplemental grant scheme to enable existing SFI grant holders and their host institutions to provide opportunities to researchers from Ukraine to collaborate on existing SFI-funded research.
The Slovenian Research Agency is planning activitities to enable researchers from Ukraine to get involved in research in Slovenia.
The Swedish Research Council no longer allows transfer of funds to research partners in Russia or Belarus. It has also set up an overview of support initiatives from Swedish higher education institutions and research funding bodies. The Swedish Research Council is also contributing financially to the Swedish section of Scholars at Risk and their work on supporting Ukrainian researchers.
The SNSF is making available 9 million francs to host researchers from Ukraine at universities in Switzerland through Scholars at Risk and supporting them with a series of additional measures.
It is also providing grant extensions to researchers working in collaboration with Ukrainian, Russian, or Belarussian scientists, whose projects have been affected by the war.
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