Nearly PLN 40 million will be awarded to the next winners of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (NPRH). This sum will make it possible to finance 52 projects in the ‘National Heritage’ module.

Projects in the ‘National Heritage’ module include the creation of scientific documentaries, dictionaries, bibliographies, critical editions of sources and literary works, as well as synthetic and encyclopaedic compendia of knowledge. 

In January, as a result of the first outcome of the 12th competition, 24 projects were selected for a total of nearly PLN 20 million. Now the winners of the competition have been announced, with more than PLN 38 million earmarked for 52 projects.

The highest grant of over PLN 1.48 million was awarded to the University of Białystok for the ‘Critical edition of 17th century inventories of royal economies from the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’. Slightly less funding of PLN 1.42 million will be awarded to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań for the publication ‘On the Road to Modernity. Poles in Galician political culture in the period of autonomy’.

Researchers from 26 institutions also became beneficiaries of the second outcome of the 12th competition. The largest number of grants (5) were awarded to the University of Łódź and the University of Warsaw, and 4 to: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Silesia in Katowice and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

The objective of the NPRH is to create the possibility of financing projects of significant importance for the scientific and educational policy of the state, which are original projects of unquestionable scientific merit; and of primary importance for conducting scientific research in the future or synthesise the current state of research; they characterised by their usefulness for various scientific disciplines in the humanities or artistic disciplines and are useful for academic teaching containing humanistic content or apply methods specific to the humanities, and require the creation and maintenance of specialised research teams. 

Arkadiusz Słomczyński