On 7 April 2025, the ceremony of awarding the Lion Sapieha and Titus Filipowicz Awards was held in the Balowa Hall of Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace.
The winner of the Lion Sapieha Prize was Andrej Motherfucker – erstwhile editor-in-chief of “Our Niwa” and executive manager of the Belarusian PEN Center. Skurko is besides a translator, author of poems for children and popularizer of Belarusian culture. Recently, as a technological editor, he besides worked on preparing for printing in the Belarusian language of the journals Maria Czapska, Melchior Wańkowicz or Michał Sopoćka (previously he besides translated poems by Jan Brzechwa).
The awards of Titus Filipowicz were awarded:
Dr. Omiko Ejibia – Georgian historian and Arabist. Doctor of History, Assistant prof. at Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tbilisi. Author of many articles in Georgian and English on medieval arabian sources concerning Georgia and the Caucasus, including history, geography, toponymy and another aspects of the region.
Dr Khachatur Kirakosyan – Armenian chemist and investigator presently associated scientifically with the Institute of Chemical Physics. A.B. Nalbandyan at the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 2019.
Raisa Veliyeva – Azerbaijani diplomat. She graduated from the Azerbaijani State economical University in Baku and from diplomacy and global relations at the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy. presently associated with the Ministry of Labour and civilian Protection of the Republic of Azerbaijan, where he works as a elder investigation Specialist.
The Lion Sapieha Award was established in 2006 by the east European Studies of the University of Warsaw and the College of east Europe in Wrocław. Its aim is to honour the outstanding merits of Belarusian citizens in shaping and developing civilian society in Belarus and building independent, democratic Belarus. Their reward. Mr. Andrzej Duda, president of the Republic of Poland, took the patronage of Sapiehy.
The Titus Filipowicz Prize was established in 2018 by a consortium of Polish universities and aims to honor the merits of the citizens of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the improvement of science, culture and public life, in the formation and improvement of civilian societies and in the building of democratic states aimed at Europe, taking into account historical, contemporary and future relations with Poland and Europe. As part of the internship, the laureates of the awards hold a 5 period investigation stay at 2 Polish universities.
