University of Economics in Poznan and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan invite participants to the 9th Academic Debate under the slogan “Close strangers: Ukrainians in Poland”. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 14.

In the Collegium Minus Hall scientists will debate on the growing number of Ukrainians coming to Poland. Their influx began after Russia’s aggression in 2014. Since then, according to various estimates from 1 to 1.5, million of Ukrainians came to Poland. They arrived initially mainly to Warsaw and the cities of eastern Poland. Now they work and live in almost every region.

The participants of the 9th Academic Debate together with the Ukrainians connected with Poznań universities plan to reflect on this new phenomenon and its social, cultural, economic, demographic and political consequences.