International Office
H-BRS supports Partner University in Ukraine
Donation campaign 2025 "Books4Friends"
This year's fundraising campaign kicked off at the graduation ceremony on 25 October 2025 and will run until the end of the year. The donations will be used to purchase urgently needed specialist books for students at our partner university in Chernihiv. This will also strengthen the university library there as a place for people to meet and exchange ideas.
How you can donate: cash, bank transfer, Paypal
- in cash in the donation box in the library on the Sankt Augustin campus. Please ask for our action button.
- by bank transfer to the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences donation account: DE48370502990033000695, ‘Spende Books for Friends’. Fyi: The tax office accepts your transfer receipt or bank statement as proof of donations up to an amount of 300 euros. For donations of more than 300 euros, please request your donation receipt by email at: ukrainespende@h-brs.de.
- via PayPal (until 31 December 2025). Please use the link below:
Previous fundraising campaigns
Graduation ceremony 2024
At the graduation ceremony on 19 October 2024, graduates and their guests, as well as university staff and friends, donated almost €5,000. The money was used to make the student Maker Lab at CPNU energy independent. Due to frequent power outages caused by the war, the equipment (power banks, charging stations) has enabled minimum operation and the holding of events, such as the children's university.
Opening of the Maker Lab in Oktober 2024
CPNU says: Thank you!
Graduates and alumni of H-BRS donated at the graduation ceremony 2023 for a student project at Chernihiv Polytechnical University. Now Students and employees of our partner university say thank you for the donation in a video. The money has been spent for equipment for a MakerSpace where students can train practicall skills.
Impressions of the opening of the Maker Lab in October 2024
November 2024: On the occasion of the 2024 graduation ceremony, the graduates and their guests, employees and friends of the university (including the Studierendenwerk) donated a total of almost € 5,000. The money will be used to purchase charging stations and solar panels in Ukraine to make the student Maker Lab energy-independent.
October 2024: Official Opening of the Maker Lab
March 2024: The Ukrainian partners have used donations to purchase technical equipment for the Maker Lab.
January 2024 : The Studierendenwerk contributes a donation of €2000.
October 2023: At the graduation ceremony, the graduates of the 2022/2023 academic year and their guests donated to the students in Chernihiv. A total of €2,380 was donated, which will be used for a MakerSpace.
8. August 2023: H-BRS hands over laboratory equipment to partner university in Ukraine.
April 2023: The first generator financed by H-BRS donations was handed over to the CPNU these days.
At our partner university Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, around 30,000 square meters of space have been hit, in some cases massively, by bombs and drones: 4,000 square meters of windows have been shattered, the entire heating system has been destroyed, roofs, walls, floors and doors have been hit, as well as information technology, laboratories and research equipment. Currently, repair work on buildings and laboratories is ongoing with a great deal of commitment and improvisational talent.
H-BRS is therefore asking for monetary donations to help make study and research at our partner university possible again. For example, the university management of CPNU is asking for the following:
- Power generators (approx. 3,000 euros)
- Laboratory equipment (e.g. oscilloscope, approx. 1000 Euro)
- Computers (e.g. server PC, approx. 1000 Euro)
- Printer, scanner, toner (approx. 150 Euro)
Donations in kind (e.g. power generators, newer IT like laptops, lab equipment) are also welcome after prior arrangement. Please contact us for this purpose (ukrainespende@h-brs.de). For transportation, the partner university has presented a reliable solution. A visiting scientist from CPNU, who is currently working at H-BRS, assists with focused communication with the CPNU management.
If you would like to donate, please contact ukrainespende@h-brs.de. We look forward to your donation - thank you very much for reaching out.
„Despite all the difficulties faced by our country, we students of Chernihiv Polytechnic continue our studies. Under the conditions of constant shelling of Ukraine's critical infrastructure, we continue to study online despite blackouts. Chernihiv Polytechnic National University operates, students study, we all help the Armed Forces of Ukraine together. I am sure that in the future our country will be a free European state and the students of Chernihiv Polytechnic National University will become qualified specialists who will help rebuild the country. Everything will be Ukraine!”
Oleksandr Likhuta - student of MPM-211 group
„In March of this year, during active military operations in the city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University suffered significant damage from artillery shelling and aerial bombardment by the russian federation army. The total damage to the University from Russian aggression is estimated at 5 million euros. We are grateful to the entire European community, which provides invaluable support to Ukraine and the University in particular, it gives us faith in Victory and gives us the strength to fight on. Our strength lies in unity! We will rebuild, we will win!”
Oleh Novomlynets - Rector of the University
