The scholarship program to Poland is calling for application. Students who already get their bachelor degree are encouraged to advance their studies by sending out their application to this program. The selected students will be provided with tuition-free master studies and tuition-free PhD studies in the following areas of study: sciences, natural sciences, technical sciences, agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences. In addition, the students will be given the stipend cost as much as 1350 PLN every months during the study period to cover the costs of accommodation and living expenses. The students are also required to attend 1 year Polish language preparatory course by the time they have arrived in Poland.
About the Program
The Ignacy Łukasiewicz Scholarship Programme, implemented as part of the “Polish Aid” programme, is addressed to the nationals of the following developing countries: Angola, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, The Republic of South Africa, The Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The aim of the Programme is to support the socio-economic development of the above-mentioned countries.
Requirements
The Ignacy Łukasiewicz Scholarship Programme enables free education as part of a second cycle programme of studies at a higher education institution supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Polish: Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego – MNiSW) in the following areas of study: sciences, natural sciences, technical sciences, agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences. The Scholarship will be offered to the citizens of the above-mentioned countries who:
- are graduates of first cycle programmes (completed no earlier than in 2014) or students of the last year of first cycle programmes in the academic year 2017/2018 in the following areas of study: sciences, natural sciences, technical sciences, agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences;
- do not hold a magister (Master’s) r magister inżynier (Master of Science) degree;
- have a certificate confirming proficiency in English of at least B2 level;
- are neither graduates nor students of Polish higher education institutions.
Second cycle degree programmes are preceded by a preparatory course to facilitate undertaking study in Poland, which is also covered by the scholarship, during which scholarship holders gain knowledge of the Polish language, enabling them to take up education. In the case of participants who choose to study in English, the preparatory course can last only one semester.
Candidates are selected on the basis of a competitive procedure, based on the quality assessment of applications carried out by reviewers of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange who are academics working in higher education institutions.
Candidates independently choose a higher education institution and degree programme from among the educational offers of Polish public higher education institutions. The list of public HEIs supervised by the Minister competent for higher education is available via the link: http://www.go-poland.pl/higher-education-institutions.
Application
Terms and Conditions of the Ignacy Łukasiewicz Scholarship Programme692.38 KB
Applications can be sumbited only via https://programs.nawa.gov.pl/login.
More information can be found at: Scholarship to Poland