Between fleeing and returning - KIU scholarship holder Tetyana Panchenko researches the lives of Ukrainian refugees in Germany

While the war in their home country continues, 20 Ukrainian academics are currently executing their research projects at the Viadrina and elsewhere, funded by the scholarship programme of the KIU Competence Network for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies. One of them is Prof Dr Tetyana Panchenko, who has been researching Ukrainian refugees in Germany for the last three years. She is interested in what ideas they had when they came to Germany, how they are integrating and whether they can imagine returning to Ukraine.