Acknowledgements

This pioneering project became an experiment in how an interdisciplinary group of scholars and publishers can collaborate to create open educational resources. Several institutions and numerous extraordinary individuals made this project possible.

The project was initiated by Frances Pinter, who not only assembled the project team and secured the necessary resources for its implementation but was also actively engaged in all stages of the endeavor. Financial support from the Open Society University Network (OSUN) facilitated the project. We express our appreciation to the Head of the OSUN Secretariat, Oleksandr Shokvych, who put a great deal of effort into making this initiative a milestone.

We were fortunate to assemble a team of skilled and creative authors who agreed to step beyond traditional academic writing and reimagine the results of their research into educational units. We express our sincere gratitude to Professor Thomas Faist, who wrote the Foreword and placed our contributions within the broader field of migration studies. We also feel delighted to have had the opportunity to work on the project with students from CEU Invisible University for Ukraine, who contributed to the creation of educational content. Furthermore, we are especially grateful to the anonymous reviewers whose advice and comments significantly improved the publication.

We are sincerely grateful to the CEU press team, who worked tirelessly to ensure the success of this project. Especially Jen McCall, Acquisitions Editor at CEU Press, who not only handled a bulk of the editorial work, but also coordinated the entire writing and publishing process. Thanks also go to Mark Palmer, our Development Editor; and to Zoe Wake Hyde at Radish Press, who brought her Pressbooks platform expertise to bear on the project to such effect.

Oleksii Chebotarov and Viktoriya Sereda