The DFG

In addition, the DFG offers support to academics from Ukraine and also from Russia as part of its initiative to help refugee researchers. The aim is to enable refugees to continue to pursue academic activities by integrating them in the German academic system in the short term. This is another way in which the DFG wishes to emphasise its solidarity with academics from Ukraine who have been forced to leave their homes as a result of the Russian attack. However, the support is also open to Russian academics who have been forced to flee in the current situation. At the end of last week, the DFG issued a statement along with the other members of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany saying that the Russian attack was in breach of international law and expressing its solidarity with its academic partners.