Management and cooperation

Institution - organizer:

Institute for Interdiscipinary Studies "Artes Liberales", Warsaw University and (since 1999) the The "Artes Liberales" Institute Foundation, Warsaw.

Institutions - co-organizers

Ivan Franko University of Lviv; Ukrainian Catholic University (formerly Lviv Theological Academy); National University "Mohyla Academy", Kyiv; Belarusian State University, Minsk; European Humanities University, Minsk; Yanka Kupala Grodno University, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas; Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, University of Montenegro, Podgorica; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; University of Białystok; Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius; Smolny College, St. Petersburg; Institute for Ukrainian Studies of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Lviv; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; International Culture Center, Kraków.

Cooperating academic institutions: Polish Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Academy of Sciences; National Library, Warsaw; Head Office of the State Archives, Warsaw; University of Wrocław; Catholic University in Lublin; Central State Historical Archives in Lviv and Kyiv; Lviv Stefanyk Library, Ukraine; State University of Ivano-Frankovsk; Institute of Archaeography of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv; et al.

The project was devised by Prof. Jerzy Axer (President of the "Artes Liberales Institute" Foundation) in consultation with Ukrainian scholars in the United States (Prof. Roman Szporluk, Prof. Ihor Ševčenko and others), and by the representatives of the National University "Mohyla Academy" in Kyiv. On the Ukrainian side, the program has been supplemented and coordinated by Prof. Jaroslav Isaievych (the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences), Prof. Natalia Jakovenko (National University "Mohyla Academy", OBTA UW) and Dr. Aleksandra Hnatiuk (OBTA UW). Prof. Elżbieta Smułkowa (University of Warsaw and University of Białystok) and Prof. Anatoly Mikhailov (European Humanities University, Minsk) participated in elaborating the Belarusian part of the program.

Prof. Jerzy Axer ( Director of OBTA), Prof. Ivan Vakarchuk (Rector of Lviv University), Rev. Prof. Boris Gudziak (Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University [formerly Lviv Theological Academy]) and Prof. Natalia Yakovenko (National University "Mohyla Academy" and OBTA) form the Council of the School (MSH) in permanent cooperation with Prof. Anatoly Mykhaylov (The Rector of the European Humanities University in Minsk), Prof. Jurate Kiaupiene (Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas) and since 2001 Prof. Ludmila Rychkova (The Vice-Rector of the Grodno University). The Executive Board of the School is composed of two persons - MSH directors: Prof. Jerzy Axer, Program's Director and Dr Robert A. Sucharski, Executive Director with cooperation of Prof. Janusz Rieger.