The Scholarship to Start initiative’s fourth edition has been launched! The program offers three different types of scholarships: for Olympians, athletes, and doctoral students.
Scholarship to Start for Olympians:
This scholarship is addressed to first-year of first-cycle studies or long second-cycle studies. The scholarship is offered for students who have won subject competitions and have received the highest amount of points during the recruitment process for their studies, based on their title as a subject competition winner.
Scholarship to Start for Athletes:
The scholarship is addressed to first-cycle, second-cycle, and long second-cycle studies, as well as first-year doctoral candidates at doctoral schools who are outstanding athletes. Eligible for the scholarship is a person who has placed in a scoring position at the Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships, or Polish Championships (but no further than 10th), and in the case of students—who have the right to receive the Rector’s scholarship in the academic year in which they apply for the “Scholarship to Start.”
Scholarship to Start for Doctoral Students:
This scholarship is intended for first-year doctoral students at a doctoral school who have achieved a point score in the admission procedure that is in the top 20% of those admitted as of October 1 of the academic year in which the doctoral candidate applies for the scholarship, separately for:
a) Interdisciplinary Doctoral School
b) Warsaw Doctoral School of Mathematics and Computer Science
c) and in other cases: separately for each doctoral school by educational discipline
Detailed information on the application rules
How to apply?
Students and PhD candidates who wish to apply for the Scholarship to Start should fill out an application
After filling out the application, please ensure that you attach the confirmation of your achievements (candidates for the Scholarship to Start for Doctoral Candidates do not have to attach the confirmation).
Download and complete the application form, then submit it to the Student Welfare and Support Office (BPM) along with supporting documents confirming your achievements (except for applicants applying for the “Scholarship to Start for Doctoral Students” – doctoral students are required to submit only the application form).
The application should be delivered by 24th April, 2026. The application can be delivered:
- In person, at the Student Welfare and Support Office UW (Dobra 55 street, room 00.090, Mon-Thu: 9:00-15:00)
- Via the General Office (Auditorium Maximum building on the Main Campus, room 2, Mon-Fri: 8:00-14:30; with the note “Biuro ds. Pomocy Materialnej”)
- Sending a letter by regular mail (the letter must arrive by the 24th of April)
- via the ePUAP or e-doręczenia system
- by e-mail (this option is allowed only in the case of an electronically signed application; an electronic signature is not a signature in Adobe Acrobat)
More information can be found on the Student Welfare and Support Office website
If you have any questions, please contact the Student Welfare and Support Office: bpm@uw.edu.pl, phone number: 22 55 20 783
