ECPR Member Institutions

Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy” is the first private university in Ukraine, founded on May 29, 1991, one of the first universities in Kharkov, which is a new type of educational complex that provides conditions for continuous education. The complex consists of: • three Schools training highly qualified specialists in Business Economics (with extensive Law, English, and IT), Sociology of Management (with extensive Psychology and IT), and Translation and Interpreting (with three European languages, IT, and Office Technologies courses). In addition, there is the department of postgraduate education, a pre-university training center, career broadening, and PhD programmes; • Specialized Economics and Law School with advanced language learning; • Children’s School of Early Development working on signature programs; • various forms of corporate learning and training courses; • PhD programmes, online advanced training courses; • the Science and Humanities Information Centre (SHIC) offering a collection of around 200,000 books including educational, reference, and fiction literature, as well as access to electronic library; • Career Planning Laboratory, a special unit dealing with the organization of introductory practices, internships, and graduates’ employment.

King's College London is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).

Koç University is a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey. It started education in temporary buildings in İstinye in 1993, and moved to its current Rumelifeneri campus near Sarıyer in 2000.

Kryvyi Rih National University is a state higher education institution that has been training specialists for over 100 years. The University comprises 6 faculties: Mining-Metallurgical, Civil Engineering, Electric Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Transport, Information Technologies, Economics and Business Management. It includes six colleges (Automobile Transport, Mining, Mining, and Electromechanics, Inhulets, Industrial, Polytechnic) and two research institutes (Scientific Research Mining Institute and Scientific Research Institute of Labor Safety and Ecology in Ore Mining and Metallurgical Industry).

KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.

Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a scientific research institution, established in December 1991 by decision of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Institute was assigned a task of profound and comprehensive research of problems which acquired special importance after proclamation of independence of Ukraine and connected with needs and processes of formation, development and functioning of Ukrainian state and public society. They include history and modern dynamics of political institutes and processes, correlation between politics, political culture, ethno-national, inter-religious and inter-confessional, regional relations and factors of public life, elaboration of new paradigms of ethno-national development, prevention of ethno-national conflicts, modeling of optimal variants of ethno-politics, development of management technologies for political and inter-ethnic relations, examination of draft laws, state and non-government programs in various spheres of public life, theoretical and methodological aspects of political and ethno-political research, and implementation of their results. Until 1997 its name was the Institute of National Relations and Political Science of NAS of Ukraine. From the date of its foundation to October 2005 I. Kuras (1939-2005), Academician of NAS of Ukraine, Vice-President of NAS of Ukraine, was the director of the Institute. After his death, the Institute was named after him by the order of the Presidium of NAS of Ukraine. In 2006 Y.A. Levenets, Doctor of Political Sciences, was elected the director of the Institute. After academician Yuri Levents’ death October 8, 2013, Doctor of historical sciences, Professor O.N. Mayboroda was appointed to Acting Director of the Institute. In accordance with the resolution of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine dated 13.11.2013, Oleg Oleksiyovych Rafalskiy was appointed to the post of scientific supervisor of Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since December 2014, Oleg Oleksiyovych Rafalskiy is the director of I.F. Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. The Institute consists of the following Departments: theoretical and applied problems of political science, ethno-political science, national minorities, ethno-historic research, Jewish history and culture, and the following research Centers, established under the Departments: historical political science, Holocaust history research, ethno-confessional research etc. The scientists of the Institute achieved a thorough success in theoretical and methodological grounding of ethno-political science, a new tendency of socio-humanitarian sciences, in development of object and subject areas of political and ethno-political sciences, and in improvement of conceptive-categorical apparatus of such sciences, understanding of dialectic interaction of ethnic and political, ethnic and regional factors. Ethno-national specificity, nature and features of political process and political culture in the past and present of Ukraine, religious situation and relations between different confessions have been researched. A substantial contribution was made into the development of scientific Jewish studies in Ukraine. The Institute acts as an initiator and coordinator of scientific research projects. In particular, the Project “Political History of Ukraine in XX Century” was successfully implemented in 1999-2002. It engaged well-known specialists from scientific research and educational institutions of Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine. The 6-volumes edition, published in 2002-2003 by “Geneza” Kyiv publishing company, resulted from many years of activities. Implementation of research projects of the Institute in co-operation with groups of several universities allowed to realize specific features and character of ethno-politics in several regions of Ukraine (Zakarpatya, Prykarpatya, Volyn, Crimea), and to define their priorities and prospects. The scientists of the Institute maintain scientific relations with research and educational institutions of Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Canada, Germany, Poland, Russia, USA, France, joint international research projects are being implemented. The Institute develops co-operation with state and public organizations, holds active dialogue with representatives of various political parties, movements, religious confessions on optimal ways of the further Ukrainian development, functioning of its political institutes, etc. The Institute trains specialists through post-graduate and post-doctorate courses. Specialized scientific board accepts the defense of candidate and doctor dissertations. An innovative educational institution, the Institute of Political Sciences, was formed on the base of the Institute and since 2003 it started to train master specialists in relevant professions with basic complete higher education. Scientific library of the Institute includes more than 100 thousand copies of various publications. On a regular basis the institute publishes “Scientific Notes” and “DIALOGUE, History, Politics, Economy” journal. Institute is a co-founder of many periodicals, such as “Ukrainian Historical Journal”, “Man and Politics” journal, etc.

Kyiv School of Economics is an undergraduate and graduate school of economics and management in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 1996 by the Economics Education and Research Consortium and the Eurasia Foundation.

The Department of Political Science of Leiden University is one of the founding members of the ECPR. Public Administration, once part of Political Science, is now a separate department but continues to share the ECPR membership with the Department of Political Science. Scholars working at both departments are entitled to the membership benefits.

The Institute of Political Science (IPW) is responsible for all matters of teaching and research in the field of political science. Its main goal is to guarantee high level teaching in several different study programs at the undergraduate (Leuphana College) and graduate levels (Leuphana Graduate School). Research takes place mostly in the framework of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. http://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/zdemo-english.html

Linköping University (LiU) is a university in Linköping, Sweden, known for its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research and innovation. Since becoming Sweden’s sixth university in 1975, it has conducted world-leading research and boundary-crossing education in close collaboration with society and industry. It has two major campuses, in Linköping and Norrköping, and offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs taught in both Swedish and English. The university has about 4,500 employees and 40,000 students.

Linnaeus University is a state university in the Swedish historical province Småland, with campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by a merger of former Växjö University and Kalmar University, and is named in honour of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.

The Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR) has evolved from the Department of European Studies that was established in 1972. Over the past thirty-five years the Department has established a strong record of research and teaching in Politics, International Studies and language teaching which until recently formed the basis for its major degree programmes. In 2003 the Department began the transition from European Studies to Politics and International Relations. The University took a strategic decision to further invest in Politics and International Relations, resulting in a name change for the Department and the introduction of new degrees in International Relations. In early 2005, in recognition of the Department’s successful transition, the University agreed to three new appointments (at Professorial, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer level) and in early 2007 to three further new appointments at Lecturer level, all of which have considerably enhanced the teaching and research strength of the Department. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, the Department was ranked 5B, and also in 2001 the Department was rated 23/24 in the External Subject Review which covered both its Politics and Languages/Area Studies teaching activities.