Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund

The scholarship belonging to Fenno-Ugria Foundation:

• is designated by decision of the Fund’s board to one or more youths up to 35 years of age;
• the Fund’s board decides the designation of the scholarship based on the applicant’s success in his speciality as well as the applicant’s social activity;
• is paid once during the year;
• the possibility to apply for the scholarship is announced two months before the due date for the application’s submission;
• the application must be submitted each year by 15 September;
• the recipient is announced during the Kindred Peoples’ Day in October.

To apply, an application must be presented with an overview of one’s activities in one’s own speciality and in society, as well as one or more recommendations. The Fund’s board also has the right to institute the scholarship.

The fund was established by Fenno-Ugria’s board member Tõnu Seilenthal on 20 June 2007, and its statute was approved by Fenno-Ugria’s board on 28 September of the same year. The activity of the fund is managed by a 5-member board.

‘Waterfowl People’ is Lennart Meri’s first documentary film that came out in 1970. It deals with the everyday life, ethnography, folklore and traditional culture of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed peoples.