Beschreibung

Invi­si­ble Uni­ver­si­ty for Ukrai­ne (IUFU) is a solidarity‑based cer­ti­fi­ca­te pro­gram desi­gned for Ukrai­ni­an under­gra­dua­te and gra­dua­te stu­dents in Ukrai­ne and in dis­pla­ce­ment who­se stu­dies have been dis­rupt­ed by the war. The pro­gram offers an inten­si­ve, inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry lear­ning expe­ri­ence focu­sed on Ukraine’s role in chan­ging Euro­pean and glo­bal con­texts, pla­cing stu­dents’ ques­ti­ons within a trans­na­tio­nal and com­pa­ra­ti­ve frame­work.

IUFU builds on the his­to­ri­cal lega­cy of under­ground and exi­le edu­ca­ti­on and the tra­di­ti­on of post‑1989 “Invi­si­ble Col­leges” in Eas­tern Euro­pe. It does not replace or dupli­ca­te Ukrai­ni­an uni­ver­si­ty edu­ca­ti­on; rather, it com­ple­ments exis­ting insti­tu­ti­ons by addres­sing edu­ca­tio­nal gaps cau­sed by the Rus­si­an inva­si­on.

The pro­gram pro­vi­des the­ma­tic cour­ses, men­to­ring, rese­arch sup­port, and skills‑building in aca­de­mic Eng­lish and aca­de­mic wri­ting. It sup­ports stu­dent rese­arch, civic enga­ge­ment, and aca­de­mic mobi­li­ty, streng­thening con­nec­tions to Euro­pean aca­de­mic cen­ters.

Deli­ver­ed in a hybrid for­mat, IUFU com­bi­nes online tea­ching with on‑site win­ter and sum­mer schools in Buda­pest and Lviv, hel­ping coun­ter brain drain by fos­te­ring access to trans­na­tio­nal edu­ca­tio­nal net­works regard­less of stu­dents’ loca­ti­on.