The successful awardees for the UK-Ukraine R&I grants scheme have now been announced. This scheme offers strategic support for existing twinning partnerships to enable the transition of those agreements into practical collaboration in research and innovation. This will help ensure that the twinning scheme not only supports the needs of Ukrainian research and innovation but the longer-term strategic objectives of both institutions and nations.
This scheme is funded by Research England. Research England’s investment, which will be awarded through UUKi, will see partnered institutions collaborating on and building their capacity in research and innovation into the future. It will also mean UK universities can scale up and sustain their commitment to working with their Ukrainian partners. Please see below for the full list of successful partnerships.
The full list of awardee partnerships, correct as of 28 March 2023
- Anglia Ruskin University - Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University: Improving the Quality of Doctoral Supervisory Training: Capacity Building Workshops
- Bath Spa University - Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (IUEH): ‘I Vote for Peace’: Collaboration and Compassion in a Time of War
- Cardiff University - Zaporizhzhia National Polytechnic University: Zaporizhzhia National Polytechnic University (ZNPU) Capacity Building in Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Durham University - Zaporizhzhia National University: Multidisciplinary approaches to building research capacity and resilience through partnerships during conflict.
- Edge Hill University - Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University: Transitional Justice Solutions for Human Rights Challenges in War-time Ukraine
- Lancaster University - National Technical University "Dnipro University of Technology": Plant-Soil Restoration UUKi Twinning Network
- Loughborough University - O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv (Beketov University): Digital solutions to maximise readiness for postwar reconstruction of the built environment.
- Newcastle University - The National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE): Programme to Enhance Academic Collaboration for Enabling Regenerative Reconstruction in Ukraine (PEACE-R2UK)
- Queen's University Belfast - Bory Grinchenko Kyiv University: Migration, Forced Displacement and the Politics of Loss in Ukraine and beyond
- Royal Agricultural University - Sumy National Agrarian University: Assessing farmland and ecosystems damage in north-eastern Ukraine from the Russian invasion
- The Glasgow School of Art - Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA): Developing and Promoting Sustainable Cultural Heritage in Disaster Contexts
- University of Birmingham - Ivan Franko National University of Lviv: Twinning for Identity, Sovereignty and Resilience
- University of East Anglia - Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU): Preparing the Ground for Reconstruction – Decontaminating Ukraine’s Soil, Eco-Entrepreneurs, and Environmental Journalism
- University of East London - Cherkasy State Technological University: The Pilot Project - drone enabled participatory evaluation of Ukraine’s war-damaged buildings
- University of Edinburgh - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: Labs4TwinnedResearch – Kyiv and Edinburgh joint research development for the future
- University of Glasgow - National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA): Kyiv and Glasgow Twinning for Impact: strengthening research capacity through strategic partnership
- University of Glasgow - Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (LNMU): Identifying patients at risk of prostate cancer pelvic nodal metastasis
- University of Hull - Mariupol State University: Building Research Capacity in Exile: The University of Hull and Mariupol State University partnership
- University of Leeds - Bukovinian State Medical University (BSMU): Improving care of victims of lower limb trauma in Ukraine
- University of Leicester - Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University: Developing a five-year roadmap of aerospace, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence twinned research
- University of Leicester - Poltava State Agrarian University: Traceability in food supply chains for improved global and national competitiveness.
- University of Liverpool - Sumy State University: UoL-SumDU Collaboration for Digitalisation and Digital Transformation of Ukraine
- University of London (St George’s) - Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University: Susceptibility of Escherichia coli isolates to a new class of anti-bacterial agent.
- University of Nottingham - Ukrainian Catholic University: United in Solidarity: UCU-UoN Faculty Collaboration Research Programme
- University of Portsmouth - Odesa Polytechnic National University: Building a future Ukraine: Collaborative research promoting economic, social and cultural wellbeing.
- University of Reading - National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine: Capacity building of Ukrainian researchers for sustainable livelihoods: socio-economic development
- University of Sheffield - Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: Building back better: transforming the post-war entrepreneurial ecosystem in Ukraine.
- University of St. Andrews - National University of Ostroh Academy: An Ostroh Academy-University of St Andrews Partnership for Advancing the Public Humanities and Building Cultural Resilience in Ukraine.
- University of Stirling - Odessa State Environmental University: Capacity Building in Earth observation for national water quality assessment (CORNELIA)
- University of Warwick - Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, NURE: REWARD: Radio Electronics-Warwick Allied Research and Development
- University of West Scotland - Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport: Integrated rail freight optimisation in Ukraine: Railway sleepers, rolling stock and logistics
- University of Wolverhampton - Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University: Inclusive Education in Ukraine: exploring crisis possibilities, co-developing practice and supporting teachers.
- University of York - V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University: Kharkiv-York Partnership Towards a Zero Pollution Environment in Post-War Ukraine