National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA opens call for applications for “Solidarity with Ukraine”

Due to the war in Ukraine and out of solidarity with the academic and scientific community there, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA opens the call for applications for the “Solidarity with Ukraine” programme.

The initiative, commissioned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Health, is addressed to Polish institutions willing to host Ukrainian refugees, students and doctoral candidates, who decide to continue their education in Poland.

Eligible applicants – who files the application:

The application to NAWA is submitted by HEIs supervised by the Ministry of Science  and Higher Education (MEiN) or the Ministry of Health (MZ), in which the number of full-time students is at least 150 persons, as well as the Polish Academy of Science (PAN) institutes / Łukasiewicz Network institutes / research institutes. In the application, these entities declare the number of Ukrainian students / doctoral candidates that they are willing to host, providing them with an opportunity, free of charge, to continue their studies, prepare a dissertation, take language courses or benefit from other forms of education in the period from 1 March to 30 September. In addition to the tuition waiver, the participants will receive a scholarship. Moreover, if necessary, psychological and legal assistance will be provided to everyone.

The participants do not need to be recruited for the entire duration of the Programme. They can be accepted anytime between 1 March and 30 September 2022.

Call for applications for the “Solidarity with Ukraine” programme will be open until 31 March 2022.

Details of the call for the programme are available in: Announcement of call for applications in the programme