The TU Dublin Crisis Support Fund
TU Dublin has created a Crisis Support Fund that will provide assistance to researchers fleeing crisis situations. Across the World, researchers face threats to their life, their freedom, and their careers in research. Often, they are forced to flee their home country because of such threats, and actively seek opportunities to restart their work in a supportive university environment.
The ongoing war resulting from the invasion of Ukraine by the government of the Russian Federation, has brought support for fleeing researchers into focus for many of us in the TU Dublin community. This has motivated us to initiate a long term fund that can be used for support of researchers fleeing crises anywhere in the World.
The initial focus of the fund will be on PhD students of any nationality, previously registered in a Ukrainian university, who are fleeing the war in Ukraine. The intention is to support a small number of continuing PhD students, who would register as TU Dublin students and will be provided with:
- Fully supported tuition fees
- A stipend to cover living costs for the remainder of their time registered as a TU Dublin PhD student
- Research costs
- Assistance in settling into life in Dublin
- Pastoral supports, including availability of counselling
The NSR Helpdesk will provide important information to Ukrainian people seeking to access third level education here in Ireland and will help facilitate students and researchers who have made direct contact with third level institutions to make informed decisions about their continued education before the start of the new academic year in September 2022.
The NSR can be contacted by email on NSRHelpdesk@mu.ie or via phone on +353 (0)1 474 7788.
Any PhD student of any nationality currently registered in one of the Ukrainian Universities who is in need of help during the war in Ukraine.
Once we receive your application we will review all the content and will be in touch to let you know if we need more information, if the supervisor of choice is available and what happens next.