This internal Curriculum Development Workshop, conducted in a hybrid format with participants in Europe, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany as well as on-site in Berlin, explores the different seminars and its plans and formats for the 2023-24 fall semester. The two-day workshop brings together coordinators and scholars involved in the seven courses that are planned for the Fall semester of 2023/2024 academic year to flesh out the syllabi in detail and to exchange experience from the previous semesters of the IUFU.
After the successful 2022-23 academic year, Central European University is continuing the INVISIBLE UNIVERSITY FOR UKRAINE (IUFU) certificate program (offering ECTS credits) for junior and senior undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and PhD) students from Ukraine, whether residing in Ukraine or in refuge, whose studies have been affected by the war. The name of this transnational solidarity program evokes the various nineteenth and twentieth-century underground and exile educational initiatives (such as the “flying universities”) in Eastern Europe, as well as the tradition of Invisible Colleges formed after 1989 in the region.