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Leibniz Research Network Central and Eastern Europe

Press Releases 2025

With the GU-QuMat project, we are a research partner in the Leibniz Network Eastern Europe.

The Leibniz Association boasts the greatest pool of expertise for Eastern-European-related research in the German, non-university research arena. Leibniz Institutes work closely together across different sections with regional partners, with whom they often have long-standing links. Within the humanities, social sciences and economic sciences represented in Sections A and B, the Leibniz Association also plays a key, visible role in shaping Eastern European research. The Leibniz Institutes involved have set up an Eastern Europe project group in order to make use of complementary interests and activities, expand collaborative ventures with regional partners, and offer targeted policy advice.

German-Ukrainian Center of Excellence for Quantum Materials GU-QuMat

The GU-QuMat project led by IFW Dresden is an example of active scientific cooperation in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering within the network. Since June 1, 2024, it has been funded by the BMBF with 2.5 million euros for a period of four years. The aim of the German-Ukrainian Center of Excellence for Quantum Materials GU-QuMat is the theory-based search for novel quantum materials as the basis for future technologies. The center is to be established in Kyiv in the future. Despite the current war situation, preparations are to begin now at both locations and the cooperation partners in Ukraine are to be supported. The project is based on a long-standing collaboration between IFW Dresden and Kyiv Academic University (KAU). A scholarship system for young Ukrainian talent was established at IFW Dresden from 2018 to 2022. After the outbreak of the war, it was precisely these experiences and contacts from the existing collaborations that formed the basis for an intensive Dresden initiative to support Ukrainian academics and scientists.

More information about:

Contact:
Patricia Bäuchler
Mail: p.baeuchler[at]ifw-dresden.de
Phone: +49 351 4659 249

 

An updated research network brochure was published April 2025.