Ukrainian Science Lives! Or, How the Czech Academy of Sciences is Helping Ukrainian Scientists

​Immediately after the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Czech Academy of Sciences expressed its solidarity with the attacked country, launched a program of direct support for Ukrainian scientists named the Researchers at Risk Fellowship. Shortly thereafter, more than 50 Ukrainian researchers from various fields received this support at the institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. They immediately became involved in Czech and European research projects or continued research they had begun at home. In addition, they acquired new skills and knowledge from Czech science. At the same time, the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences launched an initiative to organize regular meetings of Ukrainian scientists, accompanied by lectures in the humanities. This resulted in the publication of a collective monograph entitled Ukrajinská věda žije! (Ukrainian Science Lives!), which contains literary and linguistic studies on artistic translations, the art of cinema, and Ukrainian emigration.