From Odessa — Ukraine’s humanist, cosmopolitan port — Ukrainian Cosmopolis brings together thinkers, writers, and creators who resist attempts to police speech and thought.

A civic-intellectual collective, we hold the freedoms to think and to speak not as intellectual luxuries, but as the bare necessities of the life Ukraine now fights for.

We are the only organisation in Ukraine openly resisting the new culture-war orthodoxies that police speech and feed Russia’s hybrid-war propaganda.

Resisting it is not only the condition of Ukraine’s European future. It is a matter of survival.

At a time of narrowing freedoms and outward flight, we bring people to Odessa — and keep spaces of honest exchange alive.

Through public dialogue and residencies, we keep Odessa thinking and talking — and a free Ukraine
still within reach.

Applications are now open for ourUkrainian Civic Courage Fellowships

For Ukrainian citizens in Ukraine: apply by 10 June

We invite writers, scholars, journalists, artists, and otherwise creators to spend up to one month in Odessa this summer, joining others committed to intellectual courage and frank speech in difficult times. The fellowship includes travel within Ukraine, accommodation in Odessa, and a €500 stipend. Applications are accepted in any language spoken in Ukraine.