In solidarity with the Ukrainian people, the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris is calling on your generosity to help welcome students, researchers and academics affected by the war in Ukraine. During a year, a number of concrete actions have been put in place.
The Cité internationale universitaire de Paris has been the leading venue for international students and researchers in Paris for almost 100 years, and stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Together with architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, it has designed a Virtual House of Ukraine. This highly symbolic project has become a tangible reality. Since the beginning of the conflict, 180 Ukrainian students and researchers have been welcomed in several of the 43 houses on campus.
REFUGEETo continue to welcome and support Ukrainian university refugees, the Cité internationale has launched an appeal for donations. The funds raised will be used to house and support students, researchers and academics affected by the war, and to set up an emergency aid fund.
We are looking forward to welcoming students from Ukraine in the near future. We are rolling up our sleeves to fit out 4 new rooms.
The day the war started, my heart was broken and my life was changed forever. Being able to accommodate Ukrainian students and researchers would save their live and provide them with the safety to resume work and continue contributing to the world of education and science.
Because of the war in Ukraine I know I can lose my home any minute. I feel at home in the Maison du Portugal and I wish that every Ukrainian student who has lost theirs could find a home. The idea of a virtual House of Ukraine will become a powerful display of solidarity.
The ideal and utopia represented by the Cité internationale at the end of the Great War still persists when conflicts are renewed and fear is growing everywhere. Despite the troubled and difficult context, the great and beautiful ideas of peace, culture, tolerance and solidarity still live here.
The residents of the House of the Canadian Students are therefore honoured to share their living environment with students and researchers fleeing the war in Ukraine. We stand together!
The best we can do now to help from here is to welcome people in need to the Cité Internationale and give them all our support so that they feel welcome and find the strength to move forward.
The idea of a virtual House of Ukraine seems to me an incredible idea and I would like it to be open to all refugee students and researchers in the world.
This mobilisation shows our attachment to peace and cohesion. These are values that must be defended at all times through concrete actions!
A terrible war has knocked on the door of the Ukrainians. I think of my family. My heart bleeds, my soul aches. The House of Ukraine is a warm gesture from the Cité internationale. Thank you for giving a glimmer of hope to our young people. Your support is precious to me.
I lost my home without reason. The idea to create a virtual Ukrainian house is really good and important. It might help lots of Ukrainian people find the ‘‘home’’ in a dialog with compatriots. Also it’ll be a good experience for all of us to exchange our cultural identity.
I live the tragedy from one of the most emblematic places for peace between peoples and nations. I participated in the organisation of a collecting point but we should not forget that it is the people who make the country. The House of Ukraine is a concrete action to contribute to the revival of Ukraine and to spread European values.
The Cité internationale de Paris is a unique institution in the French university and institutional landscape. The Cité internationale is an asset in the pursuit of international attractiveness by offering a tailor-made welcome to international students and researchers.
