Vilnius, June 15, BNS–Lithuania’s Ethnic Minorities Department has established prizes to be awarded university students for best academic work on the topic of the ethnic minorities of Lithuania. The department said the prizes were intended to encourage interest by students in Lithuania’s minorities and to select topics involving the country’s minority communities for academic work in all disciplines.

All Lithuanian and foreign students of higher education whose final academic work (bachelor’s work, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation) centered on Lithuanian minorities and which examine aspects of Lithuanian ethnic minorities in a broad manner.

Three prizes are planned: one for bachelor’s work, one for a master’s, and one for a doctoral dissertation.