Support for students and applicants from Ukraine
Support for students and applicants from Ukraine
Support for students from Ukraine
Support for applicants from Ukraine
Psychological assistance in crisis situations
Students who seek psychological assistance due to the situation in Ukraine can make use of the following offers free of charge and in a non-bureaucratic way:
- Psychosocial counseling: https://short.boku.ac.at/mqxzgg
- Psychological Counselling Services
https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en/personal-challenges/crisis-life-situations/
https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en - Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Lazarettgasse 14A/ level 02,
Tel.: +43-1-4069595-0
http://www.kriseninterventionszentrum.at/en/ - Social psychiatric emergency services (every day, from 0:00 to 24:00)
Gumpendorfer Straße 157
Tel.: +1-31330
www.psd-wien.at - Ö3 Kummernummer careline
(everyday from 16:00 to 24:00)
Tel.: 116 123 - Telefonseelsorge crisis hotline:
(everyday from 0:00 to 24:00)
Tel.: 142
Psychosocial assistance for students from Ukraine
- Psychological Counselling Services
You can make initial psychological counselling appointments online.
Persons affected can contact the Psychological Counselling Services and receive individual counselling and psychological assistance. You can use different hotlines. In addition, they now also offer counselling in Russian and Ukrainian https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en (Vienna, online reservation and hotline) - Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, Phone: +43-1-4069595, Monday to Friday, 10:00-17:00
Crisis Intervention Center providing support and counselling for people in acute crises, Vienna. Counselling in person, via telephone or via e-mail.
Online at http://www.kriseninterventionszentrum.at/en/. - Social psychiatric emergency services (PSD) in Vienna
Phone: +43-1 31330, every day from 0:00 to 24:00
Immediate psychiatric assistance for people in acute crises: By calling this number, you will receive qualified and immediate assistance around the clock. Online at https://www.psd-wien.at/. - ESRA Vienna. Provides psychosocial counselling and support in Russian for Jewish people living in Vienna. Website: https://www.esra.at/en/about-esra.html
- Wiener Couch (Vienna couch): private association of psychotherapists and coaches, also provides counselling in Russian: Counselling in Russian - Wiener Couch | centre for psychotherapy
- Counselling for bicultural marriages and partnerships, Vienna: News - Fibel association (https://www.verein-fibel.at/)
- Centre providing counselling and support for survivors of war and torture, HEMAYAT association, Vienna HEMAYAT
Children and adolescents
- The website bitte lebe (please live) is targeted towards children and adolescents. Online at bittelebe.at.
- The hotline of school psychologists for children and adolescents is targeted at affected and scared persons → you can also find further links, folders and more on the following website https://www.schulpsychologie.at/startseite/news-detailansicht/ukraine-krieg
Psychosocial assistance in German
- https://nachbarschaftszentren.at/beratung,, neighbourhood centres: counselling in German, available in every district of Vienna, also via telephone
- https://www.boep.or.at/psychologische-behandlung/helpline (in German)
- Psychotherapeutic emergency service, organises psychotherapy places: https://www.bereitschaftsdienst.at/
Offers for refugees
This website provides psychological counselling to persons traumatised by war experiences:CARITAS Austria. CARITAS Austria offers psychotherapeutic and psychological counselling for people with a refugee background. It also has a mobile intervention team offering psychological assistance to refugees receiving basic services in Vienna.
- Counselling: https://www.caritas-wien.at/hilfe-angebote/asyl-integration/beratung-fuer-asylwerberinnen/psychosoziale-angebote
- For general enquiries by persons affected:_https://www.caritas.at/spenden-helfen/auslandshilfe/katastrophenhilfe/laender-brennpunkte/ukraine/faqs
→ for example, you can find information in the FAQs about the legal situation if persons would like to bring their family to Austria.
Offers for psychosocial assistance for students from Russia
- Psychological Counselling Services. You can book initial psychological counselling appointments online. Persons affected can contact the Psychological Counselling Services and receive individual counselling and psychological assistance. You can use different hotlines. In addition, they now also offer counselling in Russian and Ukrainian https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en (Vienna, online reservation and hotline)
- Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, Phone: +43-1-4069595, Monday to Friday, 10:00-17:00. Crisis Intervention Center providing support and counselling for people in acute crises, Vienna. Counselling in person, via telephone or via e-mail. Online at http://www.kriseninterventionszentrum.at/en/.
- Social psychiatric emergency services (PSD) in Vienna. Phone: +43-1 31330, every day from 0:00 to 24:00. Immediate psychiatric assistance for people in acute crises: By calling this number, you will receive qualified and immediate assistance around the clock. Online at https://www.psd-wien.at/.
- ESRA Vienna. Provides psychosocial counselling and support in Russian for Jewish people living in Vienna. Website: https://www.esra.at/en/about-esra.html
- Wiener Couch (Vienna couch): private association of psychotherapists and coaches, also provides counselling in Russian: Counselling in Russian - Wiener Couch | centre for psychotherapy
- Counselling for bicultural marriages and partnerships, Vienna: News - Fibel association (https://www.verein-fibel.at/)
- Centre providing counselling and support for survivors of war and torture, HEMAYAT association, Vienna HEMAYAT
Further useful information for students from Ukraine
- OEAD: Student exchange Information about Ukraine | OeAD, Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation
- Vienna centre of arrival for Ukrainian refugees This centre is set up at the hall "Sport & Fun Halle Leopoldstadt" at Engerthstrasse. It offers counselling as well as medical and psychosocial assistance. In addition, the capacities of refugee accommodation centres in Vienna are currently being evaluated.
- Füreinand - Austrian community for human solidarity
https://fuereinand.at - Airbnb offers accommodation free of charge:
https://news.airbnb.com/de/unterstuetzung-fuer-fluechtlinge-aus-der-ukraine/ - Train of Hope: Donations in kind, etc. This organisation was already very active in 2015: http://www.trainofhope.at/
- Support for orphans:
https://www.kleineherzen.or.at/en/
https://www.sos-kinderdorf.at/