Ukrainian Science Diaspora Platform
A national platform that connects Ukrainian scientists working abroad with each other and with Ukraine
Live site- 600+
- Ukrainian scientists worldwide on the platform
- ORCID
- auto-approval of registrations, transliteration-aware
- Weekly
- releases, built and maintained end to end
The problem
Ukrainian scientists abroad had no shared place to find each other, mentors, grants or ways to work with Ukraine, and the coordinators at the Council of Young Scientists checked every registration by hand.
What we built
A national platform on Django and Wagtail: an interactive scholar map with granular privacy (anonymous visitors see a limited profile, signed-in members the full one), research hubs, mentorship, a science diplomacy catalogue, grants, petitions and a newsletter builder with delivery history, all bilingual in Ukrainian and English. The AI layer: ORCID-based auto-approval with transliteration-aware name matching, CV autofill with LLMs, a Telegram assistant grounded in a curated knowledge base with anti-hallucination rails, a layered LLM spam filter for the community chat, and Telegram alerts to coordinators with direct admin links.
Result
600+ scientists from around the world have joined, coordinators review only the registrations ORCID can't confirm, and new features ship every week.
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