In this year's edition of the Banach NAWA programme 942 applications were submitted and 240 scholarships were awarded to the candidates from 34 countries. For the first time there are scholarship holders from Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Yemen, Nepal, Rwanda, Venezuela and Zambia.
The list of this edition’s scholarship recipients can be found here.
Among the universities most often chosen by the applicants are: Warsaw University of Technology, University of Warsaw, Poznań University of Life Sciences, University of Wrocław, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Wrocław University of Technology.
Congratulations to all the new scholarship holders!
We would like to inform you that at the end of this year there will be another recruitment under the Banach NAWA program for candidates starting their studies in the summer semester of the academic year 2024/2025.
Banach NAWA scholarship Programme is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA implemented uneder Polish Aid (a brand of Poland's development and humanitarian assistance), aimed at young people from developing countries who wish to take up studies in Poland. It covers scholarships for second-degree studies in Polish or in English at Polish universities supervised by the Minister of Science and Higher Educatuion.
Scholarship holders are exempt from paying education fees (at public universities) and receive a monthly NAWA scholarship of PLN 1,800 to cover living costs during their education in Poland.