For more than 10 years, BAYHOST has been supporting Bavarian and Ukrainian universities and research institutions in initiating and intensifying bilateral cooperation and continuing existing partnerships. In recent years, several networking events have been dedicated to joint study programs and Ukrainian-Bavarian cooperation in research and technology transfer.

With this year’s workshop, BAYHOST aims to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine in the field of the humanities, specifically with Ukrainian universities that were hit particularly hard by the war and had to be evacuated or are located near the front line. BAYHOST is supported by the Research Center German Language in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (FZ DiMOS), the Chair of Slavic Philology – Linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies, the University of Regensburg, Andrássy University Budapest (AUB) and DAAD lecturers.

Thematically, the workshop focuses on multilingualism, digital humanities, and digital education. Aspects such as language acquisition, regional languages, languages of education and language biographies, but also experiences with the inclusion of refugee students with the help of art and culture using the example of Masaryk University in Brno will be discussed.

Researchers from universities in Ukraine, Bavaria, Hungary, and neighboring countries are expected to take part, both in person and virtually.