I am professor of American literature and cultural studies at Hildesheim and I have been involved in some of these two projects, although my field is a very different one. I feel a bit like an exotic person here because everybody was from the natural sciences and this is the first project I think that is projects that are set in the humanities.

But I learned a lot, particularly dementia, for example, and Chernobyl was quite amazing. And dementia, by the way, I thought about my daughter just a few days ago asked me whether they have a brain and I said yes they do, but I said there isn't much in it and now I learned so much.

And this actually is in a way linked to these projects and also to the humanities because what we are interested in is also memory, but it's more collective memory, social memory and what kind of how memory works in our societies. And in that sense these two projects, and you can see the title here already, work with these issues of how does memory, how do ideologies and so on shape our societies.

And sadly we can see this with this war situation, certainly how influential this actually is and that's what we are interested in. I have to say in the first project that I'm going to introduce here is peace education in Ukraine and Georgia, which is actually directed in Georgia.

This was developed way before the war came about and we submitted an application in February, just a few weeks before the war started. And that's one project. The second one is on migration issues and what we just heard about Osnabruk, the project

in a way is linked to this. This is actually the follow-up project of a project that was actually funded for three years on visual media and migration in Europe. But we noticed after these three years that actually when we talked about Europe, it was actually Western Europe and Eastern Europe had not really been part in this study

of migration issues. And so we looked for partners in Eastern Europe and Ukraine and Poland became partners here. And that's how the Ukraine became part of this project. Also, this was started way before the war started and we continue working on this. So these two projects are actually work in progress.

And I do not have findings to present as my other colleagues did, but just I will just introduce some ideas of what we are working on and will be working on in the future. Yeah, here you can see peace education, curriculum reform.

Peace education certainly is a bit of a problem to talk about the Ukraine right now and about peace education. But I guess it's obvious how important this might be in the future. It's trauma, it's reconciliation. How does life actually go on after the war? And that is what people in education, which is not really my part, but that's what people

in this project are interested in. And in Georgia and in Ukraine, scholars developed certain modules, certain ideas of how to proceed and how to do peace and conflict education in Ukrainian and Georgian high school education and university education.

Here you can see different topics. How does this work? Yeah, here. Common values, civic engagement, and so on. These are just terms and concepts that are important in this context. Let me skip this here. These are descriptions. Here you can see some of the partners and here are some Ukrainian universities listed

and from Georgia. And the German like Hildesheim and Finland are actually evaluating these programs. And that's the idea behind this. But right now this work cannot really be done, but we are planning to do this and

hopefully in the near future. It's a cooperation between peace and conflict studies. These are just the academic fields that are involved here. Education, political science, and sociology. Important for the evaluation and the development of this is the Center for Diversity, Democracy, and Inclusion in Education at the University of Hildesheim.

And here is the center that I just want to introduce and with this focus, with new focus on Georgia and the Ukraine. I already come to the second project, which is the representation of migration in visual

media, which actually, as I said, is a follow-up of a research program that we started three years ago and that was funded by Rasmusplatz. And now, as I said, we learned after having done this for three years that actually Eastern

European perspectives on migration should be more central and should be discussed in a more central way in such a research project. And that's why we included the Ukraine. Questions of how is or has migration been seen in the Ukraine? How is it, has it been represented in the media?

But also how are Ukrainians as migrants in other parts of Europe, how are they represented in the media? And that's what the project is focusing on. We work with a group migration lab, also placed in Hildesheim at the Department of

Education, but also in the United States. It's also a, there's a U.S. link here in this project. I'm comparing, and that's my input here, comparing different histories of migration

and their representation. In this previous project, and now the Ukraine is hopefully going to be part of this at some point, we developed home pages and we also made documentary films and other material that we produced, and this is an example here, we developed a syllabus, so

we looked at the film history of different European countries, how has migration been represented in film history? And we wrote, for example, brief essays, and that's what I'm illustrating here, and this is available online for teachers, for people in education, and you can click and

find this online, for example, Finnish movies or German movies about migration, and we comment on this as specialists of the field. This is, for example, a film about Eastern European migration to the UK, and then you find information about this, and this is just one example of one of the outputs of

our research that we had done in previous years, and now we will include the Ukraine in this. This is just a historical example from 1974, a movie, Angst Essen-Sieleauf, a famous German movie, one of the first movies about migration to Western Germany, and an essay

about this, just an example of what we have in mind as outcomes of our research. Yeah, the intended research now focusing on the Ukraine, the Ukraine is just one country, certainly among many other European countries that participate in this, but what

we intend to do is, including Ukrainian film and media history and current situation, the aim is also to make Europeans learn more about Ukrainian history, which we think is underemphasized in European education in general, and so that's one reason, but also

to create material that might be helpful for Ukrainians to learn about how migration has been seen in Ukraine and what it means for their future. And secondly, the representation of Ukrainian migration in European media, that's a topic that we are discussing, and I have been working with actually a Hispanic from

Mykolaev, he is specialized in Spanish, and Ukrainian migration to Spain, for example, that probably not many of us know about, but there are quite a few Ukrainians living in Spain, for example, it's one of the major immigrant groups in Spain, and these kinds of issues, that's what we are interested in and want to focus on in the future, in this research. Yeah, this is just, again, the two projects and

the universities that are involved, and I hope I stayed in the timeframe.