{"id":133820,"date":"2022-07-22T09:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/?p=133820"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:31:58","slug":"the-kosciuszko-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/the-kosciuszko-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kosciuszko Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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WHICH SCHOLARSHIP CATEGORY IS RIGHT FOR ME?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowships<\/strong>\u00a0allow postgraduate scholars, professionals or artists who have completed their Ph.D. to undertake postdoctoral research in the U.S. for 3 – 9 months.<\/p>

The Kosciuszko Foundation Grants<\/strong>\u00a0allow graduate degree (M.A., M.S.) scholars, professionals or artists to conduct research in the U.S. for 3 – 6 months.<\/p>

\u00a0The Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fellowships<\/strong>\u00a0allow university faculty members to teach classes at U.S. universities, for up to 10 months. The lectures should focus on Polish Studies, including Polish language teaching and Polish culture. Teaching fellows may also undertake or continue their research while lecturing.<\/p>

There are\u00a0no restrictions\u00a0to fields of study\/research for any of the above grants and fellowships.<\/strong><\/p>

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PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

\u00a0The Kosciuszko Foundation follows a policy of equal opportunity and does not discriminate against any person because of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.<\/p>

Only Polish citizens and “Karta Polaka” holders<\/a>* permanently residing in Poland<\/strong>\u00a0are eligible. Poles living outside of Poland may NOT participate in this program.<\/p>

Dual citizens (the United States and Poland) as well as individuals holding the United States permanent residency status (Green Card) are not eligible.\u00a0For scholarships for American citizens, please visit our\u00a0Domestic Scholarships Programs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>

Applicants must hold an\u00a0M.A. or M.S. degree prior to the commencement date of the award.<\/strong>\u00a0The preference is given to doctoral or postdoctoral candidates.\u00a0<\/p>

Candidates need to submit\u00a0a certificate of employment or enrollment in doctoral studies\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>issued by a Polish academic institution.<\/p>

Applicants must have\u00a0strong English language proficiency<\/strong>, sufficient to participate effectively in formal and informal conversations on practical, social, and professional topics and to carry out the proposed study\/research. English proficiency will be assessed during personal interviews in Warsaw.<\/p>

\u00a0An applicant has to be eligible for the U.S. exchange visitor J-1 visa.<\/p>

\u00a0There are\u00a0no restrictions\u00a0to fields of study\/research.<\/strong><\/p>

Repeat participation (“Reapplication”) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0All participants of the Exchange Program to the United States are subject to a 3-year ban on “repeat participation,” which means you can apply for another KF grant or fellowship only after three full years since the completion of the KF grant\/fellowship.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

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The oldest scholarship program of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Exchange Program to the United States, enables Polish scholars to carry out research, artistic or study projects at accredited institutions of higher learning in the United States. The program helps researchers to garner expertise, practical knowledge and skills that they can bring back to Poland. Every year, we award approximately 40 scholars with grants and fellowships worth over $400,000. Our awardees conduct their research at top-ranking universities, including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California (Berkeley), Columbia University, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Duke University and Cornell University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-international-cooperation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133825,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820\/revisions\/133825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sggw.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}