Hello,

This is a post for high school students who are considering their university options: Jagiellonian University in Kraków has a scholarship for talented students who want to study with us, aimed specifically at programming and/or mathematical contest medalists (this includes IOI, of course, but also your national competitions). We are one of the oldest (over 600 years!) European universities, with strong mathematical traditions. As for more modern times, we are regular ICPC World Finals qualifiers (with some medals on our record, too), and we tend to create nice programming contests (also, here and here).

For the beneficiaries, we provide a place to live, a (quite high!) monthly grant, a Polish language course, and an academic tutor for the duration of your studies. And, of course, our studies (https://www.tcs.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/start) include a lot of algorithms and other interesting things. Our lecturers tend to have high ambitions and low Erdős numbers.

The scholarship is named for Franciszek Mertens, an excellent Polish mathematician. It has two main goals: apart from building strong ICPC teams, we hope that some of you would consider an academic career, prove some theorems and/or develop some algorithms with us :)

So, once again, the details of the scholarship are here. Please note that you have to apply for the scholarship by June, 15th (although due to COVID-19, the admissions process for Polish universities will probably happen later).