Kyiv-Mohyla at Trialogue Seminar in Heidelberg
Long-term partnerships and academic traditions shape a community just as much as individual events. One of the most enduring and valuable formats of international cooperation for the NaUKMA Faculty of Law is the Trialogue Seminar — a platform that has brought together Germany, Poland, and Ukraine for twenty-five years.
On 29–30 November, the Universität Heidelberg (Germany) hosted the anniversary, twenty-fifth Trialogue Seminar. This year’s theme focused on consumer protection law in the European Union (Verbraucherschutzrecht in Europa). The working language of the seminar, as traditionally, was German, enabling genuine academic dialogue and an in-depth engagement with the legal issues discussed.
Student delegations from three countries took part in the Trialogue:
🇩🇪 Germany — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Universität Heidelberg
🇵🇱 Poland — Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
🇺🇦 Ukraine — National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
The seminar has existed for a quarter of a century thanks to the inspiration, dedication, and steady leadership of Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graf — a long-time friend of the Faculty of Law and one of the key drivers of this trilateral academic partnership. In his opening remarks, Professor Müller-Graf warmly recalled the origins of the Trialogue: the early ideas that emerged during the development of cooperation and friendly meetings with the then Dean of the Faculty of Law, Andriy Meleshevych, as well as with Professor Tadeusz Władyka, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University and a long-standing partner of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
This year, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was represented by Valeriia Pasko, Viktoriia Banzeruk, Diana Bitiukova, and Viktoriia Stoichyk. Academic supervision was provided by the seminar coordinator, Associate Professor Roksolana Khanyk-Pospolitak (Department of Private Law), and Senior Lecturer Serhii Petukhov (Department of International and European Law).
The anniversary Trialogue Seminar once again demonstrated that this initiative is far more than an educational project — it is a strong and enduring tradition of academic, research, and human cooperation between leading universities of Germany, Poland, and Ukraine.
