At the end of August 2025, Prof. Dr. Liubov Apostolova-Sossa from the renowned KNUCA (Kyjiv National University of Construction and Architecture) visited Prof. Dr. Detlef Kurth at the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern. She is head of the Master's degree program in Urban and Spatial Planning - the only planning degree program in Ukraine - and her teaching and research focuses on urban planning, reconstruction and monument preservation.
In the context of the cooperation agreement between the two universities, the two research groups jointly supervise numerous research and exchange programs via DAAD and GIZ, in particular on the resilient reconstruction of destroyed cities and the further development of digital teaching in view of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Germany can learn a lot from the resilience and resistance of Ukrainian cities and universities! The exchange between the degree programs and in research is to be further intensified in the future.