On December 2, 2024, at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv, a solemn award ceremony was held for the laureates of the prestigious Jerzy Gedroyc Competition. The event was attended by Piotr Lukasiewicz (the Chargé d’affaires of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine), Yaroslav Godun (the organizer of the competition, director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv), Olga Hnatyuk (the head of the Capitular of the competition), as well as co-organizers – Ihor Tsependa (acting rector of the Vasyl Stefanyk Prесarpathian National University) and Jan Malitskyi (the director of the East European Studies of the Warsaw University).
Acting rector of the Vasyl Stefanyk Prесarpathian National University Ihor Tsependa was given the honorary right to award the winners of bachelor theses. The first place in this nomination was won by Oksana Volovodyuk, a student of the Vasyl Stefanyk Prесarpathian National University, with the research work “Masculinity and heroism in the Polish units of Napoleon’s Grand Army: ideas and practices (1806–1814)” (scientific supervisor Oleg Zhernokleev).
Jan Malicki, Director of the East European Studies of the Warsaw University, invited all laureates to the International Student Youth Meeting Center in Mykulychyn for an interesting scientific debate on their research works that will be held in April 2025.
Laureates:
In the doctoral theses category:
- 1st place: Orysia Vira (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv) “Hodonymy of Lviv: genesis and development in the Magdeburg period”.
- 2nd place: Roman Ivashko (Lviv Ivan Franko National University) “The Latin Archdiocese of Lviv in the process of union with Eastern Christianity (1410-1460)”.
- 3rd place: Andrii Savchuk (Vasyl Stefanyk Prесarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk) “Formation of diplomatic personnel in the Visegrad Group countries (1991–2004)”.
In the category of master’s theses:
- 1st place: Svitlana Oliynyk (Ivan Kotlyarevskyi National University of Arts, Kharkiv) “Implementation of the philosophical and aesthetic concept of Krzysztof Penderecki in the work of the late 20th – early 21st century composer.”
- 2nd place: Artem Shkolnyj (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”) “Methods of historical criticism in Jan Dlugosh’s “Richnyky”: an example of Rusyns’ claims to the Lublin land.”
- 3rd place: Roman Marynchuk (Lviv Ivan Franko National University) “Poland in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine (2014-2021)”.
In the bachelor theses category:
- 1st place: Oksana Volovodyuk (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University) “Masculinity and heroism in the Polish units of Napoleon’s Grand Army: ideas and practices (1806–1814).”