Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU), an initiative of Central European University, started in spring 2022, just months after Russia’s initial invasion in February 2022. Since then, almost 1,000 Ukrainian students have taken courses taught by hundreds of faculty from across Europe and beyond.

IUFU offers online courses as well as on-site summer and winter schools in Budapest, Hungary and Lviv, Ukraine. The program’s objective is help sustain intellectual growth in the midst of incredible hardships. Its leaders seek to help students develop democratic resiliency.

IUFU directors Balazs Trencsenyi and Ostap Sereda will visit University Park to accept the Brown Democracy Medal and present their new book Democracy During Wartime.