War in Ukraine – Support for PLUS members
Ernst Mach-Scholarship – UKRAINE
As a reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the forced flight from the country, there is a need for immediate support for displaced persons as well as for students, graduates and scientists who are already in Austria and who have lost their financial support due to the war.The special scholarship programme Ernst Mach – Ukraine helps Ukrainian students to continue their studies in Austria.
The scholarship is open to Ukrainian students who are already enrolled in a regular study programme at an Austrian higher education institution as well as students, scientists and researchers from Ukraine who wish to continue their studies or projects here.
Target group: students, graduates, postgraduates, postgraduates enrolled in an ongoing doctoral or PhD programme, postdocs, scientists and researchers from Ukraine (citizenship)
Duration: 1 to 9 months (extension possible up to 21 months)
Scholarship amount: 715 euros per month
Funding organisation: OeAD-GmbH on behalf and financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and ResearchClosing date for applications: no closing date, applications are possible at any time
Further Information can be found here
For further questions please contact the OeAD:
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If YOU want to help
Donate to the H.A.U.S. association
The H.A.U.S. (plus.ac.at/HAUS) association supports students in financial need. At this time in particular, our task is to help Ukrainian students as quickly as possible. You can support our work with a donation using the reference “Ukraine war”:
- Donations account (Raiffeisenkasse) | IBAN: AT 14 3500 0000 9304 8668 | BIC: RVSAAT2S
Get involved by contacting the Austrian Students’ Union (Österreichische Hochschüler*innenschaft).
You want to help students from Ukraine?
Support services for PLUS students from Ukraine
Translations
Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Salzburg: The Department of Slavonic Studies offers translations for students from Ukraine.
Psychological support
Student counselling: The Psychological Counseling Centre (Psychologische Studierendenberatung) offers free psychological support for students.
- Address: Mirabellplatz 9/1 | studierendenberatung.at | | +43 662 8044 6500
Telephone counselling in Austria: You can contact the telephone counselling service by calling the following number:
- Telephone number: 142
Outpatient crisis intervention: The crisis intervention service is available at the following number:
- Telephone number: +43 662 43 33 51
Hiketides Association: The association offers free psychological counselling.
VIELE Association: Receive free legal, psychological and medical counselling (without prescription, not a registered doctor), social and labour market counselling here.
University chaplain: The university chaplaincy of the Catholic university community/university parish can also provide support.
Protestant pastoral care for students: You can also get help from the Protestant Student Chaplaincy.
English speaking pastoral support: Pastoral support for Salzburg-based students. The Salzburg International Christian Church is part part of the Evangelical (Protestant) Church and is an ecumenical, international congregation of Christian believers.
- Pastor Jeff Lampl | | 0681 2065 0989 | salzburgchurch.com | facebook.com/salzburgchurch/
Archdiocese of Salzburg: The partner and family counselling service of the Archdiocese of Salzburg can also provide support.
Legal matters/ advice: You can get free initial advice from the legal advice service of the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH).
- Schedule an appointment at the ÖH Advice & Support Centre:
- Legal advice from the Department for Foreign Students of the Austrian Students’ Union (federal branch): advice also available in Russian and Ukrainian, e-mail address:
- A good overview on topics such as Erasmus+ stays, related residence law issues, etc. can be found here: oead.at/en/the-oead/information-about-ukraine.
Financial support
- ÖH platform – Social bursary: meine.oeh-salzburg.at
- Association for Humanitarian Action of the University of Salzburg – H.A.U.S.: plus.ac.at/h-a-u-s/wir-koennen-helfen/
Emergency accounts
- Ukrainian nationals (and in the long term also Belarusian students and students of other nationalities) can open a student account through the online store: Student account > Free account for students | Erste Bank (sparkasse.at) (page only available in German).If you would like to open an account in a branch or if it is not possible to do so online, please bring the following documents with you:
- Current passport
- Current confirmation of enrolment
You can find the branches here: Erste Bank branch search | Erste Bank (sparkasse.at)
- Russian nationals
Account opening in branch – please bring the following documents with you:- Current passport
- Current registration form
- Current confirmation of enrolment
- Current confirmation of residence
You can find the branches here: Erste Bank branch search | Erste Bank (sparkasse.at)
Further support services
- ЗУМ: Facebook group for Ukrainians living in Salzburg: facebook.com/groups/432176894742646/
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of St. Mark, Salzburg: ukrainische-kirche.at/
- Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Salzburg: Max-Ott-Platz 3, 5020 Salzburg | +43 681 84550800 | | http://austria.mfa.gov.ua/ | facebook.com/konsulatukraine/
- Ukrainian Embassy in Vienna: Naaffgasse 23, 1180 Wien | +43 1 4797172
- Caritas: caritas.at/spenden-helfen/auslandshilfe/katastrophenhilfe/laender-brennpunkte/ukraine/faqs
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Support services for Ukrainian scientists
The Austrian Academy of Sciences has initiated an emergency call for applications as part of its mobility program JESH (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities) to support Ukrainian scientists, which is open immediately and until further notice. The circumstances of the war in Ukraine and the acute emergency situation of Ukrainian scientists require an unbureaucratic application and evaluation process.
