Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Inna Semenko. I'm a professor at Volodymyr Daliys

Ukrainian National University. And actually, I'm a twice displaced person who works in

twice displaced institution. Thank you for inviting me and I have a chance to present

the story of my university. But actually, this will be not only about my university,

but maybe about all higher education establishments that had to relocate because of war.

I have a very simple plan for today. I hope you can see my presentation. And first, I will tell

just a little bit about the impact of war and higher education in Ukraine. Then I will show you

the story of the displacement of universities and then speak a little bit about challenges

and achievements of such type of universities. So I think every one of you knows about this constant

shelling which happened every almost every month. And yesterday was again a very big shelling. And

actually, this this events they have their impact on Ukrainian educational research institutions.

And here on the map, you can see the number of the destroyed before the slash and damaged or ruined

educational institutions in Ukraine, the total number is more than 2000 and more than 300 are

completely destroyed, unfortunately. And as you can see, the closer it is to the eastern border,

the more damages are at the same time, still some regions that do not have any borders close to Russia

still have a lot of destroyed or damaged institutions as well. And of course, the main

issue and the main challenge for all the educational managers and researchers is the blackout.

Yesterday, we had a very massive attack on their energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

And a lot of my colleagues working in different places all around Ukraine,

they have problems with electricity, internet connection. And I'm very lucky and blessed that

I have both of them right now I can share it with you. And of course, the biggest trauma for all

of us is the people who died during the war, because actually in our university, we already

we already have several students and several professors who died because they went to the

army and tried to defend Luhansk region where we are originally from in Ukraine. And unfortunately,

this war doesn't have any mercy to any of the people. So this is a big loss for us. And

hopefully, it will be over very soon. But speaking about the displacement, everyone knows about

this whole scale war in 2022. But actually, the first displacement happened back in 2014,

when the initial conflict started. It actually touched only Crimea and the Netsk and Luhansk region.

And you see that at that time, back in 2014, we had only 18 displaced high education institutions.

Of course, the majority of them from the from the Donetsk and Luhansk region,

we have only one displaced university in the Crimea. But at the same time, I would say that

my university where I work, it has several branches in Crimea. So actually, we lost

much more there than in Luhansk region. In 2022, we had a lot more displaced high

education institutions. And you see actually, all of them are from from the regions that were in the

war. And the green colors of the map shows the places of destination of of these high education

institutions where they moved. And of course, you see that the majority still decided to stay

somewhere close to their initial place and location. Hopefully, they can return back.

And at the same time, as now we know that Kherson was liberated, I think that the number of the

displaced universities from Kherson will lower. At the same time, displaced institutions is not

is not the building is actually about the students and the academic staff who are studying and working

there. And you see that the number of students are more than 54,000. And it's almost 7000 of academic

staff who had to leave their usual working places and go somewhere. And the displacement happened

not only inside the Ukraine, our students and teachers, they are all over the world. Some of

them are in Germany, some of them are in other European countries, and even farther, because

everyone was looking for a more safe place to go to and to work to. And actually, those of my

colleagues who are in European countries, they are more favorable situation because they do not have

electricity outage, and they do not have any problems with internet connection. Speaking about

my university, I work at Volodymyr Dali, Ukrainian National University. It is more than 100 years old.

And actually, two years ago, we were able to celebrate our 100th anniversary there.

For us, frankly speaking, this is not the second displacement, but the third,