Collaboration between OsloMet and Ukrainian university

On 22 April, Rector Christen Krogh and Rector Tetyana Kaganovska will sign a Memorandum of Understanding between OsloMet and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (KKNU).

They will sign the agreement during the opening of an OsloMet seminar about the serious humanitarian and security policy consequences of the war in Ukraine (in Norwegian on oslomet.no). The Rector of KKNU will participate digitally.

“I am pleased that OsloMet is entering a closer collaboration with the University of Kharkiv. They are in a critical situation after the terrible acts of war,” states Rector Christen Krogh.

“We want to show our solidarity by strengthening our already established collaboration with KKNU and support them in the future so that the university can maintain, and then restore, its ordinary activities in the best way possible,” continues Krogh.

Important exchange of knowledge

The intention is that the two universities will develop a closer collaboration in research, teaching, dissemination, and exchange opportunities.

The agreement is coming to fruition based on an academic collaboration that KKNU and the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at OsloMet have had for years.

“Researchers and professionals at KKNU possess a lot of important knowledge, and we want to develop our collaboration,” says Krogh.

New colleagues from Ukraine

OsloMet already has two new colleagues who have fled Ukraine. One of them is Oleksandra Deineko who is now a guest researcher at NIBR. Deineko is a sociologist and associate professor at the School of Sociology at KKNU. She had previous contact with NIBR after being linked to their project Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine (ARDU) from 2018-2021.

On Friday 22 April, she will give the main speech "Ukrainian society under the war" during the OsloMet seminar on the war in Ukraine.

Read about our two new OsloMet colleagues from Ukraine.