Stefan Banach Scholarship Program

Focus Scholarship: Master and PhD

Competition: Developing Countries

Scholarship Coverage: Partial Scholarship

This year, the existing scholarship  programmes that are a joint initiative of the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs and the National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA in the form  of Polish development aid, i.e. the Banach Scholarship Programme and the  Lukasiewicz Scholarship Programme, are merged into one scholarship  programme for young people from developing countries who wish to take up  studies in Poland.

The objective of  the Programme is to promote socio-economic progress of developing  countries by raising the level of knowledge and education of their  citizens in the form of scholarships for second-degree studies in Polish  or in English at Polish universities supervised by the Minister of  Education and Science in the field of engineering and technical sciences, agricultural sciences, exact sciences, and life sciences.

The  NAWA scholarship may be applied for by citizens of the following  countries: Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, India,  Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon,  Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Palestine, Peru,  the Philippines, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia,  Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

In  addition, the citizens of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia  and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Montenegro, Moldova, North  Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan can complete second-degree studies in the fields of humanities and social sciences under the Programme, with the exception of philological studies in the field of the beneficiary’s native language.

Criteria

• Master degree application should be sent to Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Jakarta while the PhD application should be sent directly to targeted university