The Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship

The Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship awards grants to honour and promote the research of young scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to the history of ideas or the history of medieval and modern philosophy up to 1939. The fellowship is awarded on a biennial basis. Candidates are nominated and selected by a jury of philosophers and intellectual historians through a two-stage selection process.

A grant of up to PLN 100,000.

Post-doctoral scholars who have made an outstanding and documented contribution to the history of ideas or the history of medieval and modern philosophy up to 1939. Candidates are nominated; autonominations are not considered.

Candidates are nominated by referees chosen by the jury (autonominations are not considered). In the second stage the jury asks nominated candidates to submit an academic CV and a description of their research plans for the next 12 months.