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Recruitment for the 2022 Lane Kirkland programes is open!

Leaders of Change Foundation announces an open competition for candidates from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan for THE LANE KIRKLAND SCHOLARSHIPS in Poland in the 2022–2023 academic year.  Additionally, The Polish-American Freedom Foundation and Leaders of Change Foundation  announce an open competition for candidates from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan for the 2022 KIRKLAND RESEARCH scholarships.

The L. Kirkland Scholarship Program has been supporting individual development of young, ambitious and active citizens of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia for 21 years. Since 2000, almost 1000 alumni have taken part in the Program. Among its alumni are eminent scientists serving as rectors and deans of universities, today's members of governments, parliamentarians, managers of large international corporations, heads of local government bodies and well-known social activists. The author and founder of the Program is the Polish-American Freedom Foundation. The Program is also financially supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). The program is addressed to young leaders and experts, holding university degrees, interested in the development of democracy, economy and civil society in their countries and the region.

Description of the program and detailed application instructions can be obtained directly from the following website: www.kirkland.edu.pl. They can also be requested by e-mail from the Program Office.


After the on-line application is submitted, the system will generate an application confirmation document that needs to be printed. The signed page together with the attached current photograph of the candidate should be scanned and sent by e-mail together with two reference letters and a copy of the graduation diploma to the following address: kirkland@kirkland.edu.pl

Application forms and relevant documents should be received by the Program Office no later than March 1, 2022. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.


Within the Kirkland Research Program, we offer a scholarship for a one-semester research stay in Poland during the 2022/23 academic year for candidates with a PhD degree who have an established academic position.

Kirkland Research scholarship is a scholarship for a stay in Poland from mid-September to late January (first semester). Kirkland Research Program grantees participate in scientific seminars and work individually under the supervision of an academic advisor; this work is to result in the preparation of a scientific article. The requirement for obtaining a diploma for completing the Program is a scientific article approved for printing by the grantee’s academic advisor and the presentation, during the January convention of scholarship holders, of the results of this work.

A description of the program and detailed application instructions can be obtained directly from the following website: www.kirkland.edu.pl. They can also be requested by e-mail from the Program Office. Application forms should be filled out on-line.


After the on-line application has been submitted, the system will generate an application confirmation document that candidates must print. The application confirmation document must be signed, and together with an attached current photograph of the candidate should be scanned and sent by e-mail together with the two reference letters and a copy of the graduation diploma to the following address: kirkland@kirkland.edu.pl

The same as in the previous programme, the deadline for applications is March 1st.