Lviv Academic Bridge 2026: UkraineāU.S. Science & Education Forum | June 11ā12, 2026 | ¹ū¶³APP | Hybrid
Are you leading a Ukrainian research, education, or innovation project open to international cooperation, partnership, or support?
¹ū¶³APP and partners are launching an open call to build the Catalogue of Ukrainian Research, Education, and Innovation Projects ā a curated portfolio of Ukrainian projects seeking cooperation with U.S. and international partners.
The catalogue is the primary output of this call. The pitching session at the forum is a selective component built on top of it: a subset of catalogue projects will be invited to present live during Session "Ukraine as a Trusted R&D Partner: Friend-Shoring" on June 12, 2026.
The catalogue helps U.S. universities, research institutions, foundations, companies, and civil society partners identify concrete Ukrainian projects for long-term collaboration. It will be published in open access under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, actively shared with interested stakeholders, and updated after the forum.
Who can apply
We welcome submissions from across the Ukrainian research, education, and innovation landscape: universities, research institutes and laboratories, individual researchers and research teams, faculty leading curricular or pedagogical work, doctoral and postdoctoral programs, schools and teacher-training initiatives, edtech and learning-design teams, innovation hubs, incubators, technology transfer offices, makerspaces, applied engineering labs, and consortia. Projects may sit in any field of science, technology, education, or scholarly communication, provided they are open to international partnership.
We are particularly interested in projects on:
- science and technology for reconstruction and resilience
- digital transformation and artificial intelligence
- health and medical recovery
- research infrastructure and open science
- education and human capital
- cooperation with the Ukrainian professional diaspora
- humanities and Ukrainian studies
Projects should have a clear research, educational, or innovation core, and a plausible pathway to international cooperation within one to three years. Submissions are welcome at any stage of maturity ā from early concept to active implementation.
What we are looking for
Projects that have a clearly defined goal and a Ukrainian institutional or team anchor; articulate a specific form of cooperation sought from U.S. or international partners; describe what they bring to a partnership, not only what they seek; and are willing to be listed in the catalogue and to engage with potential partners after the forum.
Submissions should be completed in English.
Why participate
- Inclusion in the open-access catalogue ā freely available online, actively shared with U.S. universities, foundations, companies, and other interested stakeholders, and continuously updated after the forum
- A chance to be selected for a live pitch at the forum on June 12, with introductions and matchmaking during the friend-shoring track
- Visibility through forum and partner channels before, during, and after the event
A note on sensitive information
Please do not include confidential information, restricted-access materials, personal data of third parties, or security-sensitive details in the public project summary.
Selection
Submissions will be reviewed by the forum organizers and invited experts for relevance to the forum, clarity of the cooperation request, partnership readiness, feasibility, potential for international collaboration, balance across fields, and suitability for public presentation. Pitches at the forum will be delivered in English. Selection for pitching does not imply endorsement, funding commitment, or exclusivity. Eligible and relevant projects may be included in the catalogue, subject to organizer review.
Deadline
May 29, 2026, 18:00 EDT (22:00 UTC).
Submit here:
Selection results will be communicated by June 4, 2026.
Share the call
We would appreciate it if you could share this call with your colleagues, partners, and networks. The stronger and more diverse the catalogue, the more useful it becomes for everyone.
Contact
Oleksandr Berezko, Forum Coordinator [email protected] | +38 067 369-80-34 /en/ua-us-forum-2026