On July 17–18, 2023, at the invitation of the University of Bremen, Germany, Oksana Piatkovska, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Deputy Director of the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University, took part in the work of the international workshop on the topic «The new wave of migration as a response to the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Social and economic consequences for Ukraine and EU countries».
The event consisted of 6 sessions, the topics of which, in particular, touched on the following issues:
- political and social instability in Ukraine as a determining factor of new migration challenges; the peculiarities of Europe’s largest migration crisis caused by forced migration from Ukraine;
- specifics of social adaptation of Ukrainian migrants and providing them with assistance in different countries;
- problems of internally displaced persons and their adaptation;
- challenges for the development of the national and European countries economy in conditions of war;
- prospects for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and economic transformations in the context of Ukraine’s further cooperation with the EU.
During the workshop, Oksana Piatkovska described the process of the formation of state policy and the development of the structure of state authorities in the field of solving IDP issues, presented an overview of the statistical analysis of this type of migrants, their structure, first of all, outlined the shares of vulnerable categories, and also, based on secondary analysis, demonstrated the basic needs of IDPs in the first year of the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine. Given these needs, Oksana Piatkovska described the main initiatives and measures implemented by Lviv Polytechnic since the first days of the full-scale invasion in response to the requests and key needs of IDPs, including the provision of housing and humanitarian aid, counseling and psychological support, organization of activities for the adaptation of internally displaced children and their leisure activities, as well as spoke about the speaking clubs «Let’s speak Ukrainian!» organized and conducted by IECDR.
Other participants of the workshop were professors and scientists from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. The event was organized and held by the Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change, the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, the University of Bremen, with the financial support of the Volkswagen Foundation.
