Deadlines for this scholarship
An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.
No closing date published. This funder sets its closing date per country, or opens the call only when the cycle begins. Send us your documents and we will apply the moment your country’s window opens.
Who can apply
India IS on the eligible list (country group 2); Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Gulf states (UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman) are not among the 36 Polish Aid countries.
What the award is
Run by NAWA, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange: full-time second-cycle (master's) studies in Polish or English at universities supervised by the Minister of Science and Higher Education, addressed to young people from developing countries. The NAWA programme page lists a monthly scholarship of PLN 2,500, tuition-fee exemption at public universities, a preparatory course funded by NAWA and a travel allowance. The 2026 call closed on 8 May 2026, 15:00 CEST, and no 2027 date had been published. Important caveat: the eligible-country list shown on the government portal study.gov.pl (36 countries, e.g. Georgia, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Palestine, Vietnam) does not include Pakistan. Official source: https://nawa.gov.pl/en/nawa/news/call-for-applications-banach-nawa-2026 (checked 29 October 2026). In full: + travel allowance.Where these dates came from
Blank: the 2026 call closed as published - "The call for applications will continue until May 8, 2026, 3:00:00 p.m. local time (Warsaw) or until 300 applications are submitted in each of country groups no. 1-3 and 200 applications in the group no. 4" (Announcement No. 16/2026 of 13 April 2026, for studies from the winter semester 2026/27) - and NAWA has published no 2027 call on the Banach programme page or its news list. The funder requires candidates to obtain university admission on the universities' own deadlines, so no admission/CAS date is published either. — https://nawa.gov.pl/en/students/foreign-students/the-banach-scholarship-programme/call-for-proposals and https://nawa.gov.pl/images/Banach/2026/Banach-2026---Call-for-applications-EN.pdf (checked 30 October 2026)
Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.
