At Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, the Jean Monnet project “Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine” (2023–2026) is currently underway.

Colleagues from the University of Regensburg – Professors Mirja Lecke and Guido Hausmann – invited Ukrainian students to join the academic course-seminar “Cultural Heritage in Ukraine: Contested and Destroyed – Concepts, Approaches, Case Studies”, which is being held at the German university from October 2025 to February 2026. Bachelor’s and Master’s students of the EP “International Relations” eagerly accepted the offer and are actively participating in seminars, debating with speakers on topical issues in English and German.

The course consists of three modules: Concepts of Cultural Heritage – Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary; Heritage Objects – Thematic Case Studies; Protection in Wartime: Russia’s War as a War against Ukrainian Culture and Heritage.

At a recent session, participants discussed Art Museums in Ukraine (the keynote speaker was Kateryna Chuieva). Bachelor’s students of the EP “International Relations”, Yehor Yurkovskyi and Daryna Klymenko, took an active role as co-speakers, asking questions and engaging in discussion with the lecturer. Doctor of Philology Oksana Pietsukh (a member of the project’s working group from Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy) provided linguistic and organizational support for the meeting.

The sessions take place every Tuesday from 15:15 to 16:45 on the Zoom platform (https://uni-regensburg.zoom-x.de/j/8299114964; Meeting ID: 829 911 4964).

We invite you to join these informative classes and take advantage of the opportunity to enhance linguistic and communicative competence and, most importantly, to shape among European youth an accurate understanding of Ukrainian cultural heritage and the heroic present of our country through the tools of public diplomacy.

Register to participate via the link.

Natalka Zemziulina, Professor at the Department of World History and International Relations