Summary

Ukraine has been associated with Horizon Europe since 2022 and several European social sciences and humanities (SSH) initiatives have initiated activities to support Ukrainian participation in European research infrastructures.

Description

This will be a joint webinar of the ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Social Sciences and Humanities, together with SSHOC, the Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine. Several European research infrastructures have started specific initiatives to support research communities in Ukraine and the development of research infrastructure in their field. Supporting research infrastructures is not only a question of supporting research and science, but of a wider effort to produce evidence for policy. Research infrastructures in SSH collect data on society and culture that can support decision making in social, economic, cultural or health policy.

Participants will discuss challenges, for instance in the field of data collection, data archiving and data access for SSH disciplines. There is also a growing interest on tools and collaborations to understand the dynamics of Ukrainian diaspora across European countries. The webinar aims to establish collaborations among researchers, policy makers and funders from the field. Specific support mechanisms, through national and European actors, will be further discussed.

To register, please, write an email to merja.hykkonen@helsinki.fi, until September 16, 2024.

Programme

9:00    Welcome

Hanna Snellman, Chair, ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Social Sciences & Humanities

Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, Chair, SSHOC (Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud)

NN, Representative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (tbc)

Olga Polotska, Executive Director, National Research Foundation of Ukraine

9:30 – 11:15 Examples of current initiatives and reflection from ESFRI-RIs

Ukrainian researchers present their activities. Afterwards follows a discussion with representative from European ESFRI-research infrastructure on the kind of support Ukrainian scientists and institutions need to develop capacity.

Olena Kaminska, Research Fellow, University of Essex, Current challenges of building social science research infrastructures in Ukraine (tbc)

Olga Zhmurko, Kyiv Data Archive/CSDA, Saving data for society – the Data Archive of Ukraine (tbc)

Olha Kanishcheva, K-center manager, CLARIN – Presenting the K-centre for Ukrainian NLP and corpora

Representative from the Ukrainian research community in the context of EHRI

Tymofii Brik, Dean, Kyiv School of Economics, National Coordinator of the ESS in Ukraine – Preparing and conducting data collection for the ESS in Ukraine (tbc)

Discussion

Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, Director CESSDA ERIC
Darja Fišer, Director CLARIN ERIC,
NN, Director of EHRI (tbc)
NN, Deputy Director ESS ERIC (tbc)
 

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Support of Ukrainian participation in European research infrastructures

Igor Taranov, Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine – Supporting research infrastructure in Ukraine through Horizon Europe (tbc)

Frederik Søndergaard, DG RTD, European Commission, EU support for Ukraine in research and innovation

Greta Facile, Eurizon – European network for developing new horizons for RI, Experiences from the Fellowship Program “Remote Research Grants for Ukrainian Researchers” (tbc)

Tetiana Stepura, Lviv Polytechnic National University (and Prof. dr. Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen) – Practical experiences with starting a collaboration based on the NOW Hop-On Call for Researchers Based in Ukraine

12:30-13:00 Final Discussion

Afterwards open online plenary to informally exchange and connect. Participants can informally exchange, network and share information online in the Zoom-session.