Head of the Department of International Economic Relations, Doctor of Economics, Professor Yuriy Petrushenko became a laureate of the scientific award named after Ivan Vyhovsky.
The Award Ceremony is held at the University of Warsaw every year on 22 May, on the day when the Sejm approved the Treaty of Hadiach between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1659. The award ceremony is held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, during the ceremony a congratulatory letter from the acting President Andrzej Duda was read.
IWAN WYHOWSKI AWARD aims to honour the contributions of Ukrainian citizens in developing science, culture and public life, in shaping and developing civic society in Ukraine and in building democratic Ukraine – turned towards Europe, minding the best traditions of the former Commonwealth and the past, present and future relations of Ukraine with Poland and Europe.
The Award was established in 2014 by: Centre for East European Studies – University of Warsaw (initiator), by the most important Polish universities: University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Wrocław and four universities located along the Polish eastern Polish border: University of Bialystok, Maria CurieSklodowska University in Lublin, Catholic University of Lublin and University of Rzeszów, as well as the College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław and the Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław. In the years to come, new universities joined the Award: AGH University of Science and Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, University of Gdańsk etc.
The winner receives a diploma signed by the rectors/vice-rectors of all universities that founded the award and the right to a scientific internship and lecture at two of these universities (where there are scientific schools based on the profile of the award winner) for 2 months.
