Support for exceptionally gifted graduates of bachelor’s degree studies or students after the third or fourth year of master’s degree studies is to be provided by the new program of the Ministry of Education and Science, "Pearls of Science". The call for applications will start on Tuesday.

The last room of the temporary exhibition “Chopin. The Power of a Symbol” in the Fryderyk Chopin Institute features one of the most famous portraits of the composer by Ary Scheffer. The canvas came to Warsaw from Dordrecht, the artist's hometown. It can be seen in the Warsaw museum until 30 January 2022.

I warn migrants - be careful - Halgord Omar, a Kurdish blogger who managed to get to Germany during the migrant crisis, wrote on Facebook. He also attaches a video from a surveillance camera on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, showing a wolf pack.

“The scheme of operation is similar to the previous attempts to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border,” reported the Polish Ministry of National Defence on Twitter.

Kamil Stoch did not qualify for Tuesday's competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck. Five Polish jumpers made it to the Bergisel qualification, but the best one - Andrzej Stękała - was only 18th. Gold medalist of the Olympic Games in Sapporo - Wojciech Fortuna advises the white-red team to give up the Four Hills Tournament and to work on its shape.

Polish services resolutely defended the border, and Lukashenko's strategy was ruined - assessed Lieutenant General Waldemar Skrzypczak. In his opinion, the Belarusian dictator will stop harassing Polish services only when Putin forbids him to do so.

Scientists from Krakow and Ljubljana, in cooperation with museum professionals, are preparing to work on Odotheka, the world's first library of scents of cultural property. It should be ready by the end of 2024.

Round anniversaries of the birth of Józef Mackiewicz, Bruno Schulz, the hundredth anniversary of the election of the first presidents of the Republic of Poland, ninety years after the breaking of the Enigma, two hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first collection of poetry by Adam Mickiewicz. We will celebrate these and many more anniversaries in 2022.

"Border Guard officers were the heroes of 2021," reported Anna Michalska, a spokeswoman for the service. The data shows it. The guards have had to deal with a huge migration crisis. Attempts to illegally cross the border have also occurred in recent days.

Wigry National Park is distinguished by an extraordinary wealth of lakes surrounded by vast forests. Apart from the largest and famous for its picturesqueness Wigry Lake, there are 41 more natural water reservoirs in the Park.

The President signed an amendment to the Excise Duty Act, which will support small, regional alcoholic beverage producers. Thanks to the new solutions, small independent producers of alcoholic beverages will pay half of the excise duty on their products.

A fake payment form on classifieds websites, an email urging us to accept changes to a site's policy or links directing us to a supposed "Facebook" login - these are the most common methods used by fraudsters to swindle our sensitive data. As police remind us, "phishing" has become an increasingly popular theft method since 2015. "In the case of phishing campaigns, the best line of defence is always caution," uniformed officers remind.

Piotr Żyła finished 11th in the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the second stage of the 4-Hills-Tournament. Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi won the competition and became the World Cup leader.

On January 1, 2022, Poland has started its one-year Chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau will serve as OSCE Chairperson in Office for one year.

All members of the Polish team - Piotr Żyła, Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki, Pawel Wasek, Andrzej Stękala and Jakub Wolny - advanced to the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen of the Four-Hills-Tournament. The qualification was won by German Markus Eisenbichler, Żyła was fifth.

Migrants residing near the Polish-Belarusian border once again appeared in a propaganda film using the youngest. "The slogans held by children indicate that foreigners and Belarusian services monitor the public debate in Poland on an ongoing basis," Stanislaw Żaryn conveyed. As the Spokesperson of the Minister-Special Services Coordinator added, the action aims to put additional pressure on the decision on the migration route.

Podcast fans can now listen to the book “Ich Trzecie Oko” (Their Third Eye) by prominent blind writer Marek Kalbarczyk. The book published on Spotify is read by Jerzy Zelnik. Thus, the author became the first blind Pole whose works are available on this popular portal.

On average, the area of more than 250 football pitches is built up every day in Europe, and Poland remains at the forefront of countries undergoing the most rapid urbanization. However, it is worrying that the country lacks a long-term plan for developing Polish cities that would take into account the quality of life of residents of the new housing estates and the current demographic trends, as shown by the international ESPON SUPER study prepared with the participation of academics from the University of Warsaw.