*12:30 — light lunch will be served, presentation will start at 13:00

The war will last for years. This thesis is agreed upon by the majority within Ukraine and among Ukrainian migrants abroad. About 63% of Ukrainian migrants residing in EU countries declare their intention to return home. Yet, does this aspiration align with reality? In what conditions will return migration become possible? What are the main pull and push factors for Ukrainian migrants in Europe? Should the war situation in Ukraine dramatically worsen, will there be a second migration wave to EU countries? 
The surveys of public opinion, particularly regarding migration intentions, have become key topics for Ukrainian research companies. The Gradus research company has been monitoring migration trends since the very beginning of the full-scale invasion, launching its first survey on February 28, 2022. Over this period, twenty waves of research examining public and migration sentiment have been conducted.
Evgeniya Blyznyuk, CEO and founder of Gradus, will talk about what public sentiment and migration prospects look like. 

Speakers

• Evgeniya Blyznyuk is a sociologist, analyst, CEO and founder of Gradus Research Company and the political consulting agency Corestone Group. She worked in the media groups 1+1 Media and StarLightMedia and is the former Head of the Department of Analytics of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine (2014-2017). In 2019, she founded Gradus Research, a tech research company that conducts fast quantitative research using a mobile application, delivering the results of national surveys within a day.
• Anastasiya Leukhina is the Academic Coordinator of the Ukraine Research Network UNET@ZOiS. She specialises in peace studies and process-oriented psychology. Before the full-scale invasion, she taught at the Kyiv School of Economics and led a horizontal connections NGO. 
   

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