The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) has announced the results of the first edition of the NAWA Chair Program within which five scientists with internationally renown achievements will come to stay at Polish universities. We are happy to inform that UMCS is among five Polish universities, along University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University, the Adam Mickiewicz University, the University of Wrocław, which were awarded a NAWA Chair. Prof. Georgiy Kasianov (Ukraine) will start his 3 year appointment at the UMCS Institute of Political Science and Administration in September 2021.