The LUA group was very active during June-November 2025. We continue our work with Ukrainian partners as much as we can. Our university network continues to expand and it is a confirmation for us that there are many colleagues within LU who are interested in collaborating with Ukrainian partners and/or discussing internally issues related to all possible types of cooperation with the Ukrainian side.
New cooperation agreements have been signed between some faculties at LU and Ukrainian universities. In addition, colleagues from LU faculties continue to explore opportunities for cooperation with new universities in Ukraine.
For example, in September, the head of the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies (Olha Oseredchuk) visited LU. It was a fruitful conversation about how LU and the Global Coalition can cooperate in the future. Internal university discussions are still ongoing about LU’s work in Ukrainian studies and a draft agreement between LU and Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies is being reviewed.
In October, the Lviv Municipality visited LU, and this visit was hosted by colleagues from the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In mid-October, the Kharkiv National University of Arts also visited LU. This visit was organised by the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts and representatives of the LUA network met with these Ukrainian colleagues as well. During the LUA group’s October meeting, there was an opportunity to listen to presentations by two exchange students (Daryna Lynnyk and Yaryna Loik) from Ukraine who updated the LUA network on the challenges that Ukrainian students experience in Ukraine during the war and their reflections on the exchange studies and the opportunity to visit LU.
In early November there was a delegation visit from “Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine” to LU. This visit was hosted by LTH colleagues and representatives of the LUA group met Ukrainian delegates. During the LUA group’s November meeting, there was a possibility to promote the staff exchange possibility through presentations of LUA participants (Fredrik Torkildsen, Eleonora Narvselius and Lars Harrysson) who already visited their Ukrainian partners in May or in July. As a result, some new LUA participants expressed interest in visiting Ukrainian partners in the future as well.
