• Only scientific papers are submitted for the Prize;
• Applicant research papers should be of international importance, belong to social and humanitarian sciences and be based on scientific understanding of historical or contemporary processes in the culture, politics and public life of Ukraine;
•  The scholarly works must be published in the year when the call for submissions for the prize competition is announced, or in the two years which precede that year.
• The books shall contain ISBN.
• research work (a study, a monograph, thesis, book, cycles of lectures) of the size of at least 6 publishing sheets with bibliography in the subject of research.

The Prize shall be awarded for significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian studies or social and human sciences, for outstanding work or specific scientific discovery, which is a significant contribution to world science and culture.