About the Charitable Organization “Ivan Franko International Fund”

CO “Ivan Franko International Fund” was established in June 2015.

The Fund was initiated by ROLAND FRANKO (Ivan Franko’s grandson), Ihor Kurus and the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

Board of the Fund

VOLODYMYR BUGROV, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, rector of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine);

YAROSLAV HARASYM, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine);

IHOR KURUS, Managing Director of the Fund (Kyiv, Ukraine);

SVIATOSLAV PYLYPCHUK, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine);

TAMARA SMOVZHENKO, Doctor of Economy, Chair of the Board of the Lviv Society in Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine);

IHOR SERDYUK, Doctor of History, Professor of the Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University (Poltava, Ukraine).

Our goal: by way of publicizing and promoting Ivan Franko’s scholarly and creative legacy, and via cultural diplomacy and international scientific exchange, to accomplish the mission of the Fund – to reveal Ukraine to the world.

Our task: to encourage the scholars and intellectuals from different countries worldwide to carry out up-to-date research in social science and humanities as well as Ukrainian studies in the global context. The Fund’s projects also aim to present the unbiased vision of the Ukrainian identity phenomenon to international scientific communities and thereby to develop critical thinking and strengthen democratic principles and evaluations in modern humanities and Ukrainian studies.

The Advisory Panel of the Fund is a group of 16 scholars and public figures from Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Slovakia and Poland.

Since 2015, the Fund has been awarding the Ivan Franko International Prize. The Prize has been awarded to:

2016

His Beatitude Liubomyr Huzar (Ukraine)

2017

Michael Moser, Professor of the Vienna University (Austria)

Oleh Shabliy, Professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)

2018

Johannes Remy, Professor of the Helsinki University (Finland),

Yaroslava Melnyk. Professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine)

2019

Maria Gracia Bartolini, Associate Professor at the Department of Slavonic Languages of the University of Milan (Italy)

2020

Ihor Serdyuk, Professor of the Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University (Ukraine)

2021

Leonid Tymoshenko, Professor of the Drohobych Ivan Franko Pedagogical University (Ukraine)

For further information on the Prize winners follow the link https://frankoprize.com.ua/index.php/en/category/winners/

For further information on other Fund’s projects aimed at recovering the memory and memorabilia of Ivan Franko’s life please visit our official website www.frankoprize.com.ua and follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frankofund

For annual statements of the Fund visit https://frankoprize.com.ua/index.php/uk/finansova-zvitnist/

Candidates for the Prize in 2023 https://frankoprize.com.ua/index.php/en/

Ivan Franko International Prize mentioned by outstanding people

“I am absolutely delighted that such an international fund exists because we do need it!… And God grant, this prize will develop and young scholars will be found who will tackle the issues which are for us, Ukrainians, of vital importance”.

His Beatitude Liubomyr Huzar,

Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 2005-2011,

the first Laureate of the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2016.

“The top priority of the Fund is to award the Ivan Franko International Prize which allows us not only to know Franko better but most importantly to drive the scholars worldwide to carry out active humanitarian research in social science and humanities”

Roland Franko,

Ivan Franko’s grandson, co-founder of the Fund

“The Franko Prize is a rare blend in Ukrainian humanities of impartiality and virtue, profoundness and practicality, historical tradition and future perspective… I am positive that the way of the Franko Prize is the course of development of Ukrainian studies worldwide…”

Volodymyr Bugrov,

Rector of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

co-founder and Member of the Board of the Ivan Franko International Fund

“The Ivan Franko International Prize greatly facilitates efforts in the realm of humanities, motivates the scholars in Ukraine and beyond. Any involvement in the Prize is a great honour, as the high level of humanities is undoubtedly a stronghold of the Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian identity”.

Michael Moser,

President of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies,

Laureate of the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2017

Criteria for Selection of Nominees for Winning the Prize:

•  The main criterion for selection of nominees for winning the Prize is his/her professional competence in his/her field of study and international level of scientific achievements regardless of gender, religious or political preferences or ethnic origin of the author.
• The Prize shall be awarded for significant contribution to the development of social and humanitarian sciences emphasizing humanistic, national, spiritual, statist sense for learning and consolidation of scientific and cultural heritage of Ukraine in the global context.
•  Prize winners have to comply with position of Ivan Franko, expressed during his life: “this work is thoroughly critical, the work of a cold mind, inspired by a great idea of entirety and originality…”

Prize winner may be any researcher or scientist whose research papers have been submitted to the Prize Committee in accordance with the Provision “On Ivan Franko International Prize” and have been recognized as the best as assessed by the International Jury.

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 same person may be the Prize winner only once.

A research paper may be recommended for the Prize by an academic institution, a higher education institution of Ukraine and the countries with which Ukraine has diplomatic relations, or the previous winners of the Prize.

• 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.

The following documents should be obligatory attached to the application for winning the Prize:

•  decision of an academic institution or higher education institution to submit research paper for winning the Prize;
• bio of a person (persons) whose research work is nominated for the Award, with contact details of the nominee(s) for the Award;
• research work (a study, a monograph, thesis, book, cycles of lectures) of the size of at least 6 publishing sheets with the names of reviewers and a bibliography in the subject of research.
• the scientific work shall be submitted in 3 printed PDF duplicates, with the right to send the scientific work to the Members of the Nomination Committee, Members of the Expert Council and Jury;
• the extended abstract to the scientific work being submitted for the Prize;
• personal written consent of the author (authors) of the scientific work to participate in the competition for the Prize.

The documents are submitted in electronic form and three printed copies of the research paper with the author’s autograph should be mailed to the Committee of the Prize (01054, Kyiv,  Volodymyrska St., 48a, of.15).

Ivan Franko International Fund was created in June 2015. International Fund is a non-governmental charitable organization.

The Fund aims to support the development of Ukrainian studies and social sciences, promotion and popularization of scientific and creative heritage of Ivan Franko.

The primary and the main objective of the Fund is establishment and implementation of Ivan Franko International Prize and promotion of its international recognition. International Prize will be awarded in two nominations: “for contribution to the development of Ukrainian studies”, “for significant personal contribution to the development of social sciences.”

Roland Franko, the grandson of Ivan Franko, is the initiator of creation of the Fund.

Ivan Franko is a rare and unique example of universal genius within the context of the world as well as in Ukrainian history – an all-round man and harmoniously developed personality who managed to unlock his potential not in one, but in many areas of culture and science. Great artist of the word, politician, scientist, philosopher, ethnographer and folklorist, prominent literary critic, essayist and translator, playwright and passionate tribune of the people – that is just who Ivan Franko is.

Ivan Franko is the author of numerous research papers on history and theory of literature, literary criticism, methodology and comparative studies, bibliography, book science, library science, linguistics, translation studies, journalism studies, folklore studies, ethnology, ethnography, cultural, art and religious studies, history, economics, sociology, statistics, law, political science, pedagogy, psychology, philosophy and descriptive natural sciences.

Contribution of Ivan Franko as a scientist in the creation and codification of many sectors of the national terminology and, more broadly – in the processes of intellectualization and functional-stylistic development of Ukrainian language is invaluable. Without any exaggeration, Franko may be called one of the main creators of Ukrainian scientific language.
Being a philosopher, Ivan Franko developed his own version of positivist conception of social progress and classification of sciences; he was a pioneer in the popularization of modern natural science knowledge, discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, in particular the theory of evolution.

Ivan Franko`s heritage includes integral historical-cultural concept of organic integrity and historical continuity of Ukrainian culture in chronological and ethnographic borders of its distribution. Ivan Franko laid scientific foundations of the theory and practice of intercultural communication, incessant and multidimensional dialogue between Ukrainians and representatives of other peoples and civilizations types.

In general, according to the aggregate data of bibliographic indexes, the scientist is the author of about 3 thousand scientific researches. Fluency in fourteen foreign languages enabled him to translate into Ukrainian language about 200 authors from 14 languages and 37 national literatures.

Fanatical diligence of Ivan Franko and persistence in achieving his goals resulted in a tremendous creative heritage – about 6000 works of literature!

Exceptional creative successes of Ivan Franko as a scientist is evidenced by wide recognition in the scientific world (Doctor`s Degree in Philosophy obtained in the University of Vienna, the degree of doctor honoris causa of Kharkiv University, membership in many Slavic scientific societies, numerous publications in Europe’s most prestigious scientific journals). Ivan Franko has become a universal doctor and Ukrainian Moses, man of action in the sphere of Europeanization and intellectualization of Ukraine, production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, intercultural dialogue and national consciousness.