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There were announced the names of 6 nominees for obtaining the Ivan Franko International Prize
The International Expert Council has selected six nominees (per three in each nomination) of the current Ivan Franko International Prize that highlights the best academic papers from all over the world in the field of Ukrainian Studies and social and humane sciences.
Subject to the applicable Rule, the Expert Council members were guided by their own knowledge domain during selection of nominees, as well as they compared the scientific papers that set up a claim for Prize winning according to the following criteria: availability of innovation and unique approaches in a research study; research study conceptual importance, consistency, and criticality; research study international context and level.
Within the nomination entitled “For Convincing Contributions (Achievements) in the field of Social and Humane Sciences” , the Expert Council members recommend submittal to jury consideration the following scholarly works: three-volume monograph authored by the writing team composed of Yuri Makar, Michael Gorny, Vitaliy Makar, Anatoly Salyuk – co-author of Volume I “From Deportation to Deportation. Social and Political Life of the Ukrainians of Kholmshchyna and Pidlishia (1915-1947) Reserch. Memories. Documets (Chernivtsi); monograph authored by Sophia Bonkovska “The sacred angioplasty of Ukrsine-Rus. The sacred diskoses and chalikes. The end of the 10th-16th centurios” (Lviv); and scientific paper authored by Oleg Shabliy «Social Geography» of 2 books (Lviv).
Within the nomination entitled “For Convincing Contributions (Achievements) in the field of Ukrainian Studies”, there will be submitted to jury consideration the monograph authored by Michael Mozer «New Contributions to the History of the Ukrainian Language” (Wien, Austria); monograph authored by Zoryana Kupchynska “Archaic Place Names Stratigraphy of Ukraine” (Lviv); and monograph authored by Vladimir Serhiychuk “Famine of 1932-33 as a genocide of Ukrainians” (Kyiv).
All six scholarly contribution works will be submitted to consideration of the International Jury being in its session from June 23 to June 25 in Vienna.
The Ivan Franko International Prize Winners will be announced on June 25. The Prizing ceremony will be held on September 27 at the birthplace of Ivan Franko –Drogobych City.
The Prize is an annual event and is presented from 2016. The Prize Winners are granted with monetary remuneration and golden sign. In 2017, the prize fund amounts to 500 hundred thousand hryvnias.
We remind 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”.
Ivan Franko International Fund has been presented in Canada
On April 10, a business trip of the Administration of the Ivan Franko International Fund to Canada came to an end.
During the visit, organized within the framework of the events of bilateral cooperation and presentations, the Chairman of the Board of the Fund, Roland Franko, and the Director of the Fund, Ihor Kurus, held a number of meetings and negotiations. In addition, the presentation of the Ivan Franko International Fund took place in three cities: Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa.
The management of the Ivan Franko Fund, under the auspices of the President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Toronto Department) Taras Bahryi, and the Director of the LATKA Inc. Mariia Antoniv, held the presentation of the Ivan Franko International Prize in Toronto on April 1. The Consul General of Ukraine in Toronto Andrii Veselovskyi, the Former Congressman of the Parliament of Canada, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Canadian Community Yurii Shymko, the President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Dariia Darevych, the Director of the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce Bohdan Myndiuk, PhD Roma Franko with her family, Professor Marko Robert Stech, representatives of Plast and other representatives of the Ukrainian community in Canada.
While staying in Ottawa, the administration of the Fund had a meeting with the Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Andriy Shevchenko on April 04. The Fund representatives have met with the Ukrainian community and scientists of Ottawa University, as well.
During their visit to Canada, the Chairman of the Board Roland Franko and the Director of the Fund Ihor Kurus also visited the Ivan Franko Home in Canada, the Josyf Cardinal Slipyj Catholic School, the Ivan Franko Saturday School and the Ridna Shkola UNF West Toronto.
On April 7, under the auspices of Maria Rypan, a pleasant and long-awaited meeting with the family took place – Roland Franko (grandson of Ivan Franko, son of Taras Farnko) and Halyna Klyuchko (great-granddaughter of Ivan Franko, granddaughter of Hanna Klyuchko-Franko) met in the Saint Vladimir Institute. Later on the administration of the Fund had a small excursion around the Saint Vladimir Institute, where the fantastic library operates and which is the significant supplementary to the Ukrainian studies, collected at the library of Toronto University. Besides of professional literature for historic and ethnographic researches, the library has a lot of unique publications of Ivan Franko. The Institute also accommodates the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Department of Ontario, Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (studies Holodomor (Famine Genocide) at scientific level), Ukrainian Research and Documentation Centre, Ukrainian Studies Foundation, Ukrainian Genealogical Group and others. The Librarian of the Saint Vladimir, Halyna Ostapchuk, has granted books of Ivan Franko, published in Canada, to the apartment-museum of the family of Ivan Franko in Kyiv for the use purpose.
During the business trip to Canada, the group of the Ivan Franko International Fund had an opportunity to get acquainted with the family of Stepan and Roma Franko. On April 7, on the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Roland Franko and the representatives of the Fund were invited to dine at Franko’s family.
On the last day of their stay in Canada, on April 9, on the Palm Sunday, the management of the Fund visited the Christ the Good Shepherd Parish at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church at the invitation of Taras Bahryi, the President of the Ukrainian Canada Congress (Toronto Department.)
In conclusion, I would like to express great appreciation to Taras Bahryi, the President of the Ukrainian Canada Congress (Toronto Department), Maria Antoniv, the Director of the LATCA Inc. for their invitation to Canada and organization of our events. I would like to thank the family of Stepan and Roma Franko for their hospitality, openness, kindness and patriotism, and also for the fact that they have joined together with their sons (Ivan and Roman) to the formation of the prize fund of the Ivan Franko International Prize. I express my sincere gratitude to Іvan Franko Home in Canada and the Literature and Artistic Society LATCA for the financial contribution to the prize fund of the Ivan Franko International Prize. I also would like to express my sincere gratitude to Oleh Lesiuk for the special and wonderful gift to Roland Franko.
Such friendly support for the Fund is a key to success of the important Ukrainian scientific project, which is international.
Ivan Franko Prize 2017: selection of the laureates has begun
The International Expert Council will define three candidates in two nominations to win the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2017.
Today, on the fourth of April, the Prize Committee submitted 20 research papers for consideration of the International Expert Council that claim to win the Ivan Franko International Prize.
Pursuant to the Provision, the members of the Expert Council shall define no more than three papers in each nomination starting from the date of receipt of the documents from the Prize Committee and submit them for consideration of the International Jury. While selecting the laureates, the members of the Expert Council shall be guided by their personal knowledge, and compare these research papers with the following criteria: presence of innovative and original approaches in the research; conceptual role, consistency and critical thinking in the research; international context and a level of scientific research. In case of absence of dignified paper in any nomination where all research papers receive less than 4 positive conclusions of the members of the Expert Council, the Prize Committee shall make the decision not to award the Prize in this nomination. Thus, the research papers in those nominations where the Expert Council has determined the research papers- nominees shall be submitted for consideration of the International Jury.
This year, the International Jury will seat in Vienna. On June 23-25, the scientific and interdisciplinary discussion will take place at Vienna University, where the laureates of the Ivan Franko International Prize 2017 will be announced.
The award ceremony of the laureates will take place on the fatherland of Ivan Franko in the town of Drohobych in Lviv region on August 27, 2017.
Let us remind that the Ivan Franko International Prize is awarded to the researches, whose research papers have been submitted to the Prize Committee by the research institutions and named as the best ones in accordance with the estimation of the International Jury. The prize has two nominations: for significant achievements in the field of Ukrainian Studies and for significant achievements in the field of social and humanitarian sciences.
Awarding the contestant of the best Ivan Franko portrait
From February 1 to March 9, 2017, the International Foundation of Ivan Franko held a competition for the best portrait of Ivan Franko. Three contestants have been nominated for the competition: 3 000 UAH, 2 000 UAH and 1 thousand UAH in accordance.
As previously reported, the Commission decided not to determine the winners, since none of the works submitted for the competition did not meet all the requirements of the Contest for the best silhouette portrait of Ivan Franko.
However, the chairman of the Board Roland Franko decided to award the smallest participant of the competition Kablash Markiyan (a student of Boryslav high school №4) with an incentive premium of 1000 hryvnas.
On May 25, during the solemn line of the “last bell” Borislav Mayor – Igor Yavorsky handed a prize and a certificate to a young artist.
The contestants to win of the Ivan Franko International Prize in 2017 became know
Ivan Franko International Fund has finished acceptance of the papers for obtaining of Ivan Franko International Prize 2016. The Prize has two nominations : for significant achievements in the field of social and humanitarian sciences and for significant achievements in the field of Ukrainian Studies.
21 research papers from 16 Universities from Austria, Poland, Ukraine and Israel were submitted to the Fund`s address from January 15 to March 1, 2017 encompassing 9 scientific disciplines: Law, Art Criticism, Social Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies, History of Religion, History of Ukraine, Social Geography and Psychology.
The Nomination: “For significant achievements in the field of social and humanitarian sciences”:
- Yuriy Makar, Mychailo Hornyi, Vitaliy Makar, Anatoliy Saliuk – co-author of Volume I (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
The monograph “From Deportation to Deportation. Social and Political Life of the Ukrainians of Kholmshchyna and Pidlishia (1915-1947) Reserch. Memories. Documets.
Monograph published in the third volume in 2011-1015rr). Volume I – 880 p .; Volume II – 900 p .; Volume III – 960 p. Format 60х84/16
- Barikova Anna (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The monograph “E-STATE: NEW MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS”.
The monograph was published in 2016. Format 60×90/16; 223 page.
- Moshe Taube a collaborative effort with Prof. William F. Ryan (Jerusalem, Israel)
The monograph THE LOGIKA OF THE JUDAIZERS. A Fifteenth-Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew. The monograph was published in 2016 724 page.
- Sofia Bonkovska (Lviv, Ukraine)
The monograph “The sacred angioplasty of Ukrsine-Rus. The sacred diskoses and chalikes. The end of the 10th-16th centurios”.
The monograph was published in 2014 Format 60х90/8, 590 рage.
- Zoriana Kisil (Lviv, Ukraine)
The monograph “Legal and psychological principles of prevention of professional deformation of law enforcement agencies”.
The monograph was published in 2016 Format 60х84/16, 848 page.
- Oleh Shabliy (Lviv, Ukraine)
Сientific work «Social Geography» of 2 books.
The books was published in 2016. Formaт 70х100/16. Book one – 814 page, Book two – 706 page.
The nomination: “For significant achievements in the field of Ukrainian Studies”:
- Yevhen Nakhlik (Lviv, Ukraine)
The monograph “Ivan Kotliarevskyi’s Travestied World: Text-Intertext-Context”.
The Monograph was published in 2015;. Format 70×100 1/16, 543 page.
- Michael Moser (Wien, Austria)
The monograph «New Contributions to the History of the Ukrainian Language”.
The Monograph was published in 2016 Format 60х90/16, 668 page.
- Inna Tsaralunha (Khmelnytsky, Ukraine)
Сientific work “Records of Vyzhva City Register of the XVII century”.
The book was published in 18.06.2015. Format 80х90/16, 170 page.
- Vitalii Telvak and Vasyl Pedych (Drogobych, Ukraine)
The monograph “Mykhailo Hrushevsky Lviv Historical School”.
The monograph was published in 2016. Format 70×100/16, 440 page.
5. Hryhoriy Vasianovych (Lviv, Ukraine)
“Prometeus Spirit”. The Collection of scientific works.
The Collection of scientific works was published in in 2016. Format 60х84/16, 120 page.
6.Vasyl Ilnytskyi (Drogobych, Ukraine)
The monography: “The OUN Carpathian region in ukrainian liberation movement (1945–1954)”.
The Monograph was published in 2016 Format 79х100 1/16, 696 page.
7.Kupchynska Zoryana (Lviv, Ukraine)
The monograph “Archaic Place Names Stratigraphy of Ukraine”.
The Monograph was published in 2016. Format 84×108 1/16, 56 charts, 1278 page.
8.Serhiychuk Vladimir (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The monograph “Famine of 1932-33 as a genocide of Ukrainians”.
The Monograph was published in 2016. Format 84×108 1/32. 320 рage.
- Author and chief of the project, its scientific editor Dr. Yaroslava Koniev (Olsztyn, Poland)
The monograph “Culture of the Ukrainians in Warmia and Mazury: tradition and modernity (cultural-ethnological research)”.
The Monograph was published in 2016. 370 page.
- Victor Karpov (Lviv, Ukraine)
The monograph «Ukrainian Courage in Symbols».
The Monograph was published in 2016. 421 page.
- Andriy Temchenko (Cherkasy, Ukraine)
The monograph «Traditional Mantic Practices: the Archaic of the Sign System Scientific study».
The stady was published in 2015. Format 60х841/16. 111 page.
- Andriy Temchenko (Cherkasy, Ukraine)
The monograph «Traditional healing spells: semantic transformations and rite paradigms».
The monography was published in 2014. Format 60х84 1/16. 572 page.
- Nestor Myzak, Andrii Yaremchuk (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
The monograph “Two Centuries of service to GOD and Nation: UGCC Bukovina”.
The monograph was published in 2016. Format 84×108/16; 320 page.
- Nataliia Stoliarchuk (Lutsk, Ukraine)
The textbook “The Ukrainian avant-garde of the twentieth century”.
The textbook was published in 2016. Format 60×84 1/16. 182 page.
We remind that the Prize has two nominations: for significant achievements (developments) in Ukrainian studies and for significant achievements (developments) in social and humanitarian sciences. The Prize is annual and is awarded on August 27 on the birth day of Ivan Franko. Winners of the Prize are awarded with monetary reward (in 2017 prize fund is 500 thousand UAH) and golden symbol of the winner.
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”.
Ukrainian Humanitaristics: Who Lays Claim to Ivan Franko Prize This Year?
The press conference “Ivan Franko International Prize – Contenders of 2017” took place in Kyiv on March 10, 2017.
The list of contenders for Ivan Franko International Prize in the field of social and humanitarian sciences and Ukrainian Studies was disclosed during the event.
In particular, at the beginning of the event, Roland Franko, Chairman of the Board of the Fund, admitted that he wished Ivan Franko Prize to become as popular as Alfred Nobel Prize. “I understand that this work requires a lot of effort. We devote all our time, funds and inspiration to it. We are sure that Ivan Franko International Prize is vital for the advancement of Ukraine to the civilized world. This work will be successful as soon as millions of Ukrainians all over the world pitch in”, said the grandson of the Great Kamenyar.
Ihor Kurus, Director of the Fund, summed up the results of submitting documents for Ivan Franko International Prize in 2017. In particular, he pointed out that 21 research papers from 16 Universities from Austria, Poland, Ukraine and Israel were submitted to the Fund`s address from January 15 to March 1, 2017 encompassing 9 scientific disciplines: Law, Art Criticism, Social Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies, History of Religion, History of Ukraine, Social Geography and Psychology.
“This year, we`ve received twice as many research papers as in 2016. I hope that the level of competition in 2017 will be even higher and the International Jury will choose the undisputed winner of the Prize in each of the nominations during their meeting in Vienna”, noted Director of the Fund.
Ihor Kurus has also noted that the Prize is not state, and the inducement fund, which is 500 000 UAH in 2017, is formed at the expense of benefactors.
Member of the Board of the Fund, vice-rector of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University Volodymyr Buhrov familiarized us with the criteria and process of determining the laureates of the Prize, as well as with the contenders for Ivan Franko International Prize in the nomination “For Substantial Achievements in the Field of Social and Humanitarian Sciences”.
“The Fund has finished the acceptance of research papers at the moment and has also started the formation of the nomination committees which will consist of 3 scientists from different Universities of the world. The International Expert Council will select three best monographs from the works selected by the committees and submit them to the International Jury, which will take place in Vienna from June 23 to June 25. The laureates of the Prize in each of the nominations will be announced in Vienna. The awarding ceremony will be held in Drohobych on August 27 – Ivan Franko`s birthday”, stressed Volodymyr Buhrov.
In turn, Member of the Board of the Fund, vice-rector of Ivan Franko Lviv National University Yaroslav Herasym spoke about the contenders for the Prize in the nomination “For Substantial Achievements in the Field of Ukrainian Studies”. He pointed out that the final number of the contenders for Ivan Franko International Prize would be determined by the nomination committees, which would screen off possible pseudoscientific views.
“Ivan Franko International Prize in the field of Ukrainian Studies helps attract influential humanitarians of modern times to the new interpretation of our millennial history, new comprehension of the uniqueness and soleness of Ukrainian culture and to the discovery of peculiarities in preserving the national identity in the process of sociocultural globalization”, said Yaroslav Herasym.
For the list of research papers submitted for the Prize, please see the website of Ivan Franko International Fund at www.frankoprize.com.ua
We remind that the Prize has two nominations: for significant achievements (developments) in Ukrainian studies and for significant achievements (developments) in social and humanitarian sciences. The Prize is annual and is awarded on August 27 on the birth day of Ivan Franko. Winners of the Prize are awarded with monetary reward (in 2017 prize fund is 500 thousand UAH) and golden symbol of the winner.
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”.
The last day to submit applications for the Ivan Franko International Prize
Acceptance of the research papers and documents for the Ivan Franko International Prize terminates tomorrow, the 1st of March.
After accepting the documents, the Prize Committee will transfer the research papers for consideration of the Nomination Committees to determine whether the papers correspond to the stated nominations. The papers approved by the Nomination Committee will be transferred to the International Expert Council which will determine three nominees in each nomination of the Prize. The meeting of the International Jury will take place in Vienna on June 23-25, where the winners of the Prize will be chosen out of three nominees in each nomination.
Let us remind, that there are two nominations of the Prize: for significant achievements in the field of Ukrainian Studies and for significant achievements in the field of social and humanitarian sciences. The Prize is awarded annually and granted on 27th of August, on birthday of Ivan Franko. The winners of the Prize are granted a monetary award (in 2017, the prize fund amounts to 500 thousand hryvnias) and a Golden Mark of the Winner.
Liubomyr Husar: Ivan Franko International Prize is very important!
Blessed Liubomyr, the former Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the first winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize told in an interview titled “Conflict and Las” about ecumenism*, which today is very important for uniting Christians, about formation of modern peaceful Ukraine and about the importance of such prize as the Ivan Franko International Prize.
Your Beatitude, in 2016 you became the first winner of the Ivan Franko International Prize. What does this Prize mean for you?
– I wrote and defended my PhD Thesis on ecumenical activity of Metropolitan Andrii Sheptytskyi in 1972. It was written in English in Pontifical Urban University of Rome – this is my Doctorate. When I came to Ukraine in 90s, I made many attempts to translate it into Ukrainian. Translation was done, but there were no possibility to publish it. And only in 2015, owning to the personnel of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, the translation was completed and a book was published.
As for the prize, I was greatly surprised. It was a great surprise for me that my work has received such a high appraisal of the International Jury. You know, my first thought was like this, I must honestly say, “It is a pity that it had not happen 40 years ago. For sure, it would have been a great joy for a younger man …. I, am an aged man and feel it differently.” However, it was a very big surprise. Of course, I am grateful to those who made this choice and who created this prize.
Your work was written over 40 years ago and relates to ecumenism. Do you think it is relevant to today?
– You know, this issue is very important. But there is a big difference between 70s and present time. For me personally, the difference is that a lot has changed. Now, there is access to certain documents that I have not had a chance to see before, when I was writing my PhD Thesis. Unfortunately, it is quite hard for me to add something, but I sincerely hope that younger scholars will be engaged in this process. It a quite different atmosphere – Ukrainian. It is, on the one hand, is very positive, since it is Ukrainian, and, on the other hand, this atmosphere could have been better if we had worked more towards the unification of Christians in Ukraine – the issue on which Metropolitan Sheptytskyi worked hard at the time.
The representatives of the Ivan Franko International Fund believe that by promoting prize in scientific world, the Ukrainian humanitaristics may get new incentives for development. Do you share these expectations?
– Yes, probably so! I am very happy that there is such an International Fund, because we need it! We had been so many years under occupation, where the occupants were not interested in development of our science, in our deeper learning of our history, and in general, and raising better understanding of ourselves…Now we have such opportunity (ed. – Ivan Franko International Prize) and I think this is extremely important, and thank God that such initiative exists. God, please help it to develop and let young scientists study the topics that are increasingly important to us, Ukrainians.
According to many scientists, launching of the Ivan Franko International Prize is quite successful. Your Beatitude, what do you think what should the initiators of the prize do, so as to make it a coveted prize for the scientists in the world?
– I think that the very fact of existence, finding and rewarding works that are really useful for Ukrainian science and Ukrainian consciousness is already a great merit.
What does make the prize more attractive? I think its popularity will grow. My dream is to see development of the Ivan Franko International Prize. I wish that the monographs that will be taken into consideration, and later awarded were better and of higher level every time. I think owning to combination of these measures this prize will gain greater prestige!
Note:
Major Archbishop-Emeritus Liubomyr (Husar) – Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Catholic Church; Supreme Archbishop of Lviv since January 28, 2001; Supreme Archbishop of Kyievo-Halytskyi since August 25, 2005 till February 10, 2011; Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
He was born on February 26, 1933 in Lviv.
He was appointed Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on January 26, 2001. On February 02, 2001 he was appointed as the Pope Ivan Pavlo II, Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
On February 10, 2011 His Beatitude Liubomyr announced that that day Pope Benedict XVI accepted his renunciation of the office of Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The relevant request to the Holy Father was submitted by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church when he was 75 years old.
Today he is engaged in active social activities. In addition, he is one of the members of the Initiative Group “Pershoho Hrudnia”.
* Ecumenism is the movement for cooperation and understanding between Christians of different denominations.
Ivan Franko International Prize: Half a Million for Scientific Achievements!
Roland Franko, the grandson of Ukrainian classic Ivan Franko, devoted his entire life to popularization of his grandfather’s creative legacy. Mister Roland is the last descendant bearing Franko surname in Ukraine; therefore, he does everything possible to reveal a truthful image of this spiritual colossus, apostle of truth and Great Kamenyar.
Being 84 years old Roland Franko is the Heard of the Board of Ivan Franko International Fund founded at his initiative in 2015. Let us ask Mister Roland about the scope of activities of the Fund.
Ivan Franko International Fund was founded in 2015. Was it your initiative?
Yes. I`ve always wanted to create something in commemoration of my grandfather; something that will unveil his heritage to scientific and ideological successors not only in Ukraine but also throughout the world. Today, the primary goal of the Fund is Ivan Franko International Prize, which would help us learn more about Franko as well as draw attention to humanitaristics in Ukraine and the world.
There is a number of Franko prizes in Ukraine. Can you tell us about your International Prize and people who are awarded this Prize?
Ivan Franko International Prize is an annual non-governmental award with two nominations, namely, for significant achievements in the field of Ukrainian Studies and in the field of social and humanitarian sciences. Any researcher from any country of the world (having diplomatic relations with Ukraine) can become a laureate of the Prize. All academic institutions and higher education institutions may submit their research papers as well as the previous Prize laureates.
Why is Ivan Franko International Prize that important?
The Prize is a new phenomenon for the development of Ukrainian science and Ukraine in general. It is a kind of an elevator, which should pull Ukrainian science out of sovietization and academic corrupt practices. At the same time, the Prize uncloses Ukraine to scientists who are public opinion leaders in the West. Thus, the Prize should become a kind of “window to Ukraine” for humanitarians of the world. It is extremely important for the development of Ukraine especially now, under Russian aggression! We do everything possible to make Ivan Franko International Prize, alongside Nobel Prize, one of the most coveted awards for scientists!
Quite ambitious goal. Who supports you?
We rely upon charitable contribution on the part of the votaries of Franko and Ukrainian science. As of today, we are able to provide the inducement fund of 500,000 hryvnias. For example, Taras Shevchenko State Prize is only 190,000 hryvnias. However, we want to ensure non-prejudicial evaluation of research papers, strong competition and high cost of the Prize able to quicken interest of the world`s scientific elite. There`s a lot of heavy lifting left.
Who can make such contributions and how?
Anyone can make a contribution to the inducement fund. There is a bank account accumulating funds at the website of the Fund, www.frankoprize.com.ua.
The Laureate of the previous Ivan Franko International Prize is Lubomyr Husar, isn`t he?
Yes, His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar was announced the first winner last year for his monograph “Andrii Sheptytskyi Galician Metropolitan (1901-1944), a Forerunner of Ecumenism”. To my mind, we had a wonderful and peremptory laureate as well as a vigorous and genuine debate in Vienna. The most important thing is that the scientific world has finally started to acknowledge the Prize.
Acceptance of papers competing for Ivan Franko International Prize began on January 15, 2017 and will continue until March 1. How many papers have already been submitted?
Today, we have 10 research papers that will compete for the Prize. However, there is still some time left and we are always eager and ready to accept papers until March 1. If you are interested and willing to submit your research paper, please find more information on our website – www.frankoprize.com.ua.
Are you going to hold the jury session in Vienna again?
Yes, according to our calendar plan, there will be an international jury session in Vienna on June 23-25, where the laureates will be determined. On August 27, on the day of Ivan Franko`s birth, we look forward to welcome the winners who will be awarded with the Prize and a golden lapel pin of the laureate.
What other goals does Ivan Franko Fund set itself?
The Fund is a non-governmental organization, we cannot do plenty of things at once, but we can drive them forward. In addition to the Prize, our achievement in 2016 was the opening of the memorial flat of Ivan Franko family in Kyiv.
We do many things. Nevertheless, most attention is paid to the Prize. I want all Ukrainians to understand that Ivan Franko worked for their benefit all his life.
A lecture of the winner of Ivan Franko International Prize at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
A lecture of the Laureate of Ivan Franko International Prize took place at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , on Thursday, Desember 15, 2016.
The monograph of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar – “Andrey Sheptytsky Galician Metropolitan (1901-1944), a forerunner of ecumenism”, as winner of Ivan Franko International Prize in 2016.
By the will of His Beatitude Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus Lubomyr, the lecture was delivered by the Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor, Stepan Pavliuk and Bishop Hlib Borys Sviatoslav Lonchyna, Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain, eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London, Apostolic Visitor for Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Ireland.
