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Literary Award of the Kindred Peoples' Programme 2025
Since 2007, the board of the Kindred Peoples' Programme has awarded a literature prize to recognise authors and translators of works of literature in the native languages of stateless kindred peoples who have helped to preserve and promote indigenous literature.
Science Awards of Kindred Peoples’ Programme awarded to Saami and Komi scholars
In 2025, the Science Awards of Kindred Peoples’ Programme were presented to Saami scholar Berit-Ellen Juuso and Komi researcher Maria Fedina.
Linguist Patrick O'Rourke awarded Waterfowl Fund scholarship
Academic work Patrick O’Rourke is a Finnougrist who focuses primarily on the Livonian language. In his bachelor’s thesis, he compared the North Estonian Häädemeeste dialect …
Open call for Kindred Peoples’ Literary Award 2025
The aim of the award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood. The Literary Award may be …
Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund Scholarship Competition open for applications
Fenno-Ugria Foundation has announced the 2025 Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund Scholarship Competition with a deadline of 18 September 2024.
Literary Award to Arvo Survo and Esa-Jussi Salminen
The aim of the Kindred Peoples' Programme's Literary Award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood
David Kroik, winner of Uralic Ethnic Studies Award
This year, David Kroik, a Saami linguist, was awarded the Kindred Peoples’ Programme’s Uralic Ethnic Studies Award for his dissertation ‘The construction of spaces for …
Bogáta Timár, fellow of Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund scholarship
The Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund scholarship has been awarded for the 8th time this year. Bogáta Timár is the scholarship's first Hungarian winner.
Open call for Kindred Peoples’ Literary Award 2024
The aim of the award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood. The …
Kindred People’s Programme Scientific Awards 2024
Kindred People’s Programme calls for nominations for the Uralic Ethnic Studies Award 2024 and for the Scientific Research published in a Uralic Language Award 2024. The aim of these …
Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund Scholarship Competition open for applications
Fenno-Ugria Foundation announces the 2024 Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund Scholarship Competition with a deadline of 15 September 2024.
Winner of 2024 World Tree Award is Szilárd Tibor Tóth
The winner of the 2024 Kindred Peoples' Programme's World Tree Award is the Hungarian Finno-Ugric and kindred people activist Szilárd Tibor Tóth.