Applications including the description of the contributions and achievements of the candidate – from organisations, institutions, associations, etc., or individuals – as well as applications of the candidates for the Award themselves (provided with an institution or a person of public trust) are to be sent to the Center for East European Studies by February 1, 2024, at stypendia.studium@uw.edu.pl.
The questionnaire is available here: Kwestionariusz-SAPIEHA-2024
About the Award
The award was introduced in 2006 by the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw and the College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław (as initiators of the Award) and taken up and supported by a group of universities: University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Wrocław and the University of Bialystok. The main feature of the Award is that during an academic year, the Laureate of the Award visits universities one after another where, having good living and working conditions, he or she can hold lectures on topics related to the history or present of Belarus – allowing Polish students to get to know Belarusian issues. Moreover, he or she can start their own archiving and research work thanks to access to the collections of the largest academic libraries in Poland. If the stay of the Laureate bears fruit in the form of a book – it will be published in print as part of the scholarship. The ceremony of the Award takes place at the University of Warsaw every year on April 4, on the anniversary of the birth of Lew Sapieha – the Patron of the Award, scribe of King Stephen Báthory, chancellor and grand hetman of Lithuania.
