The National Bank of Ukraine invites students, postgraduates, and young researchers to take part in the Young Researcher Forum, which is to be held in Kyiv on 4 June 2026 (offline).
The Forum will serve as a platform for presenting research results, sharing ideas, and discussing current economic topics relevant to central bank policy.
The event will also feature a lecture by an honorary speaker Priscilla Toffano, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine.
Format of the event
There are two options for participating in the 2026 Young Researcher Forum:
- presentations of completed research or research at the final stage of preparation
- poster presentations of extended abstracts or promising research proposals.
Participants will have a unique opportunity to present the results of their work, receive detailed feedback and constructive recommendations from representatives of the NBU and the expert community, as well as engage in in-depth discussions and expand their professional network.
The working languages of the forum are Ukrainian and English.
Main topics of the Forum
The 2026 Young Researchers Forum will focus on the challenges faced by central banks amid high uncertainty, the full-scale war, and structural changes in the economy.
We invite you to submit papers that fit within the Forum’s broad theme. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
- Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability in Times of Severe Shocks and Extreme Uncertainty
- Financial Stability and Lending Development
- Economic Recovery, Structural Transformations, and European Integration
- Digitalization, Emerging Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Risks for the Economy.
How will participants benefit from the Forum?
All Forum participants will receive certificates of participation, while the authors of the best papers will be awarded prizes and offered the opportunity to complete an internship at the National Bank of Ukraine.
Explanatory session with NBU experts
As part of the preparation for the Forum, NBU representatives will hold an online meeting to discuss research function at the NBU, priority research areas, and specific case studies, as well as the requirements for preparing research presentations, extended abstracts, and research proposals in poster format.
The meeting will take place on 16 April 2026, at 11 a.m. Follow the link to register.
How to submit a paper for the Forum?
To participate in the Forum, please send your research paper, extended abstract, or research proposal (in PDF format) to [email protected]. The deadline for submitting the papers is 10 May 2026.
Authors of the accepted works will be notified by 15 May 2026.
We invite you to join the 2026 Young Researcher Forum, share your work with a wide audience of experts and colleagues, and become part of the professional community shaping Ukraine’s modern economic policy.
The NBU has been holding academic events for students and young researchers annually since 2017, except for a forced pause in 2022.
Over eight years of organizing such events, the NBU has received more than 160 papers from young researchers from various universities and research institutions. 90 research papers were included in the programs of previous events. 23 Forum’s participants have since joined the NBU team.
The results of the 2025 Young Researcher Forum are available here.