SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals with a mission to protect scientists and promote academic freedom. It provides security for researchers facing serious threats in their homeland.
Smolnytska, who is also a translator and poet, was forced to leave Ukraine due to the outbreak of war.
During her stay in Kraków, she will have the opportunity to continue her research work and establish cooperation with other researchers, including those from the Kraków university community.
Prof. Beata Kowalska, spokeswoman for Academic Rights and Values at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, has told the media: "Olga Smolnytska's academic resume is truly impressive. She is the author of more than 300 publications, winner of numerous literary prizes, and an acclaimed translator. Her works have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German and English. I firmly believe that her stay in Kraków will be intellectually fruitful not only for her, but for the university and the city."
During the past two years, as part of the SAR programme, Kraków hosted Turkish academics Candan Badem and Fulyia Atacan, who, as a result of signing a public petition calling on the Turkish authorities to resume dialogue with factions in the southeastern part of the country, had been accused of treason and removed from their universities and excluded from all public universities and government offices.
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