Last Tuesday, 14 June, the “Solidarity with Ukraine” networking and fundraising event took place. It was organized by the Polish Science Contacy Agency together with the National Centre for Research and Development/NCBR Brussels Office | Business & Science Poland and the Polish Institute in Brussels. The collections promoted during the event have not been closed and we still encourage you to support them!
The event gathered over 110 people, including numerous representatives of EU institutions and Polish community in Belgium and was opened by Andrzej Sadoś, Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU and Vsevolod Chentsov, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union and directors of the institutions organizing the meeting: Ewa Kocińska-Lange from NCBR Office in Brussels | Business & Science Poland, Agnieszka Bolecka from the Polish Institute and Dr. Tomasz Poprawka from the Polish Science Contact Agency. Ruta Zarnauskaite from the European Commission, Head of Unit Horizon Europe Association in Directorate General for Research and Innovation, spoke about Ukraine’s association with Horizon Europe.
The part devoted to the support of Ukrainian scientists was opened by Dr. Tomasz Poprawka, who, in announcing the invited guests, stressed: “I am more than sure that the testimonials of our invited guests will inspire you and encourage to do what you can do best at your individual level, but also with your institutions, constituencies or stakeholders that you represent or work along with.“
Then the floor was taken by:
Yevgeniia Polishchuk from Kyiv National Economic University, who also serves as Vice-head of the Young Scientists Council at the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine, and
Dr. Maciej Maryl, coordinator in the “Science for Ukraine” initiative and founder and head of the Center for Digital Humanities at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Afterwards, Ukrainian culture and art was presented by soprano Olga Artemenko and the Karski Quartet, following a speech by Mariana Kril from the Ukrainian Section of the Polish Radio. The walls of the venue were decorated with collages by Ivan and Vasyl Kostenko, the Braty graphic design studio. The Belgian RTL television prepared a reportage on this part of the program:
Guerre en Ukraine: rencontre avec des artistes tentant d’exercer leur métier (rtl.be)
Solidarity with Ukraine also aimed to highlight the fundraising activities of initiatives supporting Ukraine. The Help Centre Belgium collected almost €1,300 in an electronic collection during the event, you can still contribute to the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Programme of the Foundation for Polish Science and the Cultural Heritage Foundation which collects funds for the Polish Support Center for Culture in Ukraine operating within the framework of the National Heritage Institute.
To support the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Program of the Foundation for Polish Science we encourage you to visit a specially prepared page of the fundraising campaign, through which you can support the program by PayPal/payment cards, online and traditional bank transfers and standing order: https://pomocukrainie.fnp.org.pl/.
To support the Polish Support Center for Culture in Ukraine of the National Heritage Institute we encourage you to make direct donations to the account of the foundation cooperating directly with the Centre (for more information: Polish Institute Brussels:
CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION
UL. SOLEC 30A/37, 00-403 WARSAW PL37 1050 1025 1000 0090 8054 3649
SWIFT: INGBPLPW, ING Bank Śląski
Photos: NCBR
