Call for Applications Student Online-Scholarships (September – December 2024)

“Ukraine digital: Ukraine in its transcultural and transnational context” is a project of virtual mobility of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (JLU) together with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) (06/2022 - 12/2024). The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as part of the DAAD-programme “Ukraine digital: Ensuring Academic Success in Times of Crisis”. It is aimed at ensuring academic success in times of war, maintaining virtual courses, fostering internationalisation, digitalisation and integration into the European system of higher education as well as strengthening the longstanding partnership between the NaUKMA and the JLU.

Our co-teaching programme in form of online tandem seminars (courses) provides students and teachers of NaUKMA and JLU with a room for exploring Ukrainian language, history, culture, literature, and society, reflecting on the current state of war, and strengthening Ukrainian voices.

For the fall semester 2024 (September – December 2024), we offer the following seminars:

• Variation and Change in the Ukrainian Language in Wartime (Prof. Dr. Natalia Kobchenko, NaUKMA Kyiv/Ukraine, and Prof. Dr. Monika Wingender, JLU Giessen/Germany)
• Paul Celan's Poetry: Close and Distant Reading (Dr. Rostyslav Semkiv, NaUKMA Kyiv/Ukraine, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Daiber, JLU Giessen/Germany)
• Proper Names at the Crossroads of Times and Cultures (Dr. Olena Kadochnikova, NaUKMA Kyiv/Ukraine, and Yuliia Kolisnyk, M.A., JLU Giessen/Germany)
• International Security Organisations (Dr. Maksym Yakovlev, NaUKMA Kyiv/Ukraine, and Prof. Dr. Andrea Gawrich, JLU Giessen/Germany)

What is the online fellowship about?
Funding is provided for the participation in one digital tandem seminar (course) from September to December 2024. The fellowship is 200 € per month from September to December 2024. Each tandem seminar will be part of the Virtual International Programme (VIP) of JLU and includes tasks (presentations, written papers or others) to be fulfilled. Upon completion of all project activities, students will receive a certificate and transcript of records.

In addition, JLU offers optional online German courses at different levels.

How to apply for an online fellowship?

1) Please fill in the VIP application form and send it via email to vip@admin.uni-giessen.de together with your certificate of enrollment at the NaUKMA (can be provided after the application deadline) by July 31, 2024. For the registration after this deadline, please contact the coordinator of the project (Iryna.Tarku@gcsc.uni-giessen.de).
In order to complete the registration, you will be asked to provide a transcript of records or a copy of your bachelor's diploma.

2) Please send a short CV (max. 2 pages) including information about your academic education and language skills (in particular, English) together with a cover letter (approx. 1 page). In your cover letter, you should provide the following information:

• a short self-introduction;
• which digital seminar you prefer to choose;
• why you want to participate in this project;
• how this financial support will help you to continue your studies.

CV and cover letter should be in English. Please send these documents by August 15, 2024.
Please send your application package for the online fellowship and inquiries via email to Tetiana.Shyshkina@gcsc.uni-giessen.de AND Iryna.Tarku@gcsc.uni-giessen.de.

Following an evaluation process by a selection committee from JLU and NaUKMA, all candidates will be notified about granting the online fellowship by the end of August 2024 at the latest.