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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.

25.10.2025

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 …

07.10.2025

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

11.11.2024

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 …

05.11.2024

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 …

27.09.2024

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 …

04.09.2024

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.

05.07.2024

The winners of the Kindred People's Literary Award are Ķempi Kārl and Aado Lintrop

On 1 November, in commemoration of the Udmurt writer and social activist Kuzebai Gerd (1898–1937), the Kindred Peoples' Programme traditionally announced the winners of the Literary Award.

10.11.2023

Udmurt culture researchers win Uralic Ethnic Studies Award

The 2023 Uralic Ethnic Studies Award was awarded to Eva Toulouze and Nikolai Anisimov for their research into 21st century Udmurt culture.

07.11.2023

The deadline for the Kindred Peoples' Programme is 16 January

Fenno-Ugria reminds you that another call for applications for cultural and educational projects is open in the programme of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment …

31.10.2023

A few days left: deadline 31.08. for Uralic Ethnic Studies and Scientific Research Published In A Uralic Language Awards!

The awards recognise the research work of kindred peoples who have do not have sovereign states. The awards are given for a monograph, collection or …

29.08.2023

The Ethnic Science Award goes to linguist and anthropologist Roza Laptander

The Kindred Peoples’ Programme’s Ethnic Science Award goes to linguist and anthropologist Roza Laptander for her research on the silence of the Nenets.

17.10.2022