The acceptance of works claiming to win Ivan Franko International Prize will begin on the January 15, 2017. Today the directors of Ivan Franko International Fund have announced it during the press conference.

The International Fund will accept the works claiming to win the Prize starting from January 15, 2017. The acceptance of Scientific Works and related documents will continue till March 01, 2017.

6 nominees for the Prize, 3 in each nomination, will be determined at the beginning of May 2017. The laureates of Ivan Franko International Prize will be announced by the International Jury holding a meeting in Vienna (Austria) at the end of June.

The Prize is awarded annually on the 27^th of August, on birthday of Ivan Yanovych Franko, in two nominations: “For a significant contribution in the field of Ukrainian Studies” and “For a significant contribution in the field of social and humanitarian sciences.”

Roland Franko, the Head of the Board of the Fund noted: “the Fund makes everything possible to provide a high level of competition and a doubtless winner of the Prize. That is why all the necessary procedures are open and with use of the best international experience. Our goal is to popularize the activity of Ivan Franko and encourage scientists from different countries of the world to hold active researches in the field of social sciences and Ukrainian Studies. Ivan Franko International Prize has to become a bridge of acknowledgement of Ukrainian science and culture. Since Ivan Franko is the best frontman of promotion of a positive image on Ukraine in the world”.

Ihor Kurus, the Director of Ivan Franko International Fun, has announced that the prize fund will amount to 500,000.00 hryvnias in 2017 and marked that apart from a monetary award the Laureates will be awarded with the diploma and a memorable Golden Mark of the Laureate (medal).

The Director of the Fund has also emphasised that academic institutions, higher educational establishments of Ukraine and of the world having diplomatic relationships with Ukraine, as well as the Prize Laureates of the previous years may submit the scientists’ works for the Prize.

The Board Member of the Fund, Vice-Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Volodymyr Buhrov, has familiarised the journalists with the requirements for acceptance of the works claiming to win the Prize and drawn their attention to the fact that the nominees` works shall have ISBN. And the information about the author and extended abstract to the scientific work being submitted for the Prize shall be written in Ukrainian and English.

You may familiarize with the list of documents and provisions on the Prize on the web-site of the Foundation: www.frankoprize.com.ua. Works for the award should be sent to the address: 01030, Volodymyrsʹka street, 48a, room 15, Kyiv, Ukraine or frankofund@ukr.net.

Recall that the first winner of the Prize in 2016, i.e., became Archbishop-Emeritus and of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church  His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar  in nomination  “For significant personal contribution to the development of social and humanitarian sciences”  for the monograph “Andrey Sheptytsky Galician Metropolitan (1901-1944), a forerunner of ecumenism”.