Head of the Department of Polish Philology Alla Kravchuk is a winner of the prestigious award POLONICUM-2015

Head of the Department of Polish Philology Alla Kravchuk is a winner of the prestigious award POLONICUM-2015

DECEMBER 3, 2015 – Famous linguist and polonist, Head of the Department of Polish Philology of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Prof. Alla Kravchuk received one of the most prestigious awards for excellence in study and promotion of Polish language, culture and history — POLONICUM-2015.

During the awarding ceremony of POLONICUM 2015, which was held on November 23, 2015, at Warsaw University, Alla Kravchuk was gifted a bronze statuette and a commemorative certificate.

The award POLONICUM 2015 is graced only to foreign scientists, researchers of Polish language and specialists in hlotodidactics (methodology of teaching foreign languages). The other two equal awards of POLONICUM are granted to active promoters of Polish language and culture abroad: interpreters, ambassadors — polonists who are absorbed by Polish literature, history, art.

In her speech the Head of the Department of Polish Philology of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv recounted the history of Polish Studies and its famous representantives and focused on the achievements of Ukrainian scientists in the development of Polish studios, namely at Lviv University.

The other two equal awards of POLONICUM-2015 received a famous German translator of Polish, a literary critic, a co-author of literary reference books and periodicals devoted to Polish literature Dr. Olaf Cul and the president of the Austrian-Polish Society and the International Federation of Chopin Teodor Kanitzer, who has been actively promoting Polish culture in Austria throughout his professional life.

The awarding celebration POLONICUM-2015 was attended by representatives of diplomatic missions from various countries, Austrian-Polish centers, foundations, language and cultural centers, academic communities of higher schools in Poland and Ukraine.

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