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GrowMania. Talent Zone

Do you study in a small town while your passion needs more than you have within reach? GrowMania is a scholarship from the Łódź Special Economic Zone for pupils who want to grow their talent faster than their surroundings allow. You get PLN 10,000 and a mentor who will help you plan the next step.

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Group photo of GrowMania scholarship holders at the gala, participants holding turquoise bags, the programme backdrop behind them

About the programme

The most gifted pupils in small towns are no less talented than their peers in big cities, but they have a far shorter bench of support: the fields are closer to them than a concert hall, a planetarium or a well-equipped workshop. We run GrowMania so that this difference does not decide how far someone gets. The name joins two things: the English „grow” and the figure of Henryk Grohman, a Łódź industrialist and patron whose name our Automation and Robotics Technical School also carries.

In the first edition, in the autumn of 2025, we awarded 20 scholarships of PLN 10,000 each to pupils from across the region. That is only the beginning: the call reopens every September.

A scholarship presented on stage, three people with turquoise bags in front of the red programme backdrop

Who the scholarship is for

You can apply if you meet all three conditions at once.

  • You are studying at a secondary school and, when the scholarship is awarded, you will be in year 2, 3, 4 or 5.

  • You live in a town of up to 20 thousand residents within the Zone’s area: anywhere in the Łódź Voivodeship, in the Koło, Konin, Turek, Kalisz and Ostrzeszów counties in Greater Poland, and in the Kołbiel, Góra Kalwaria, Tarczyn, Błonie, Dąbrówka, Jadów and Tłuszcz communes in Mazovia.

  • You have the results or the achievements: a grade average of at least 4.75 on your latest report, or an average of 4.00 and above together with documented successes in science, the arts or technology.

Talent counts in every field. The first scholarship holders included musicians and athletes, but also young people working in astronomy, computing, gastronomy, history, sailing and motor racing.

What you get

The money is one thing. At least as much comes from a mentor who helps you hold your direction all year long.

Scholarship holders posing for a group photo with turquoise bags in front of the red programme backdrop

PLN 10,000

a scholarship to spend on developing your passion.

  • A mentor — someone who helps you build a development plan and suggests how to take the next step.

  • Consultations with experts in your field.

How to join

  1. Check whether you qualify

    the year, the town and the results from the section above.

  2. Prepare the documents

    last year’s school report, a description of your achievements and the annexes to the programme rules (including consent for data processing and use of your image).

  3. Send the application

    through the Zone’s form while the call is open.

  4. Wait for the panel’s decision

    it reviews the applications and picks the scholarship holders.

  5. Collect the scholarship at the gala

    and start working with your mentor.

The first edition in numbers

  • Two women holding diplomas in front of the blue competition screen

    20

    scholarships

  • A handshake as an award is presented, with two people holding a turquoise bag beside them

    PLN 10,000

    for every scholarship holder

  • Young people in the audience during the gala

    PLN 200,000

    in the total pool

  • A meeting at a conference table, participants looking through documents

    62

    towns the applications came from

Gallery

See what the first edition’s gala and the meetings with our scholarship holders looked like.

  • An on-stage conversation during the gala, two participants seated in armchairs in front of a screen describing a scholarship holder
  • A scholarship holder speaking into a microphone on stage, next to the host leading the conversation
  • The gala stage with armchairs and a screen, a row of flags beside it
  • The gala audience seated in rows, a schoolgirl with her parents in the front row
  • Five participants posing in front of a logo backdrop during a meeting of scholarship holders

Apply to the programme

Got everything ready? Send your application — and if anything is unclear, write or call the programme team.

Programme contact

A question before you send it?

+48 42 208 06 00

The Zone’s helpline

See what else we do for the community

GrowMania is one of the Zone’s social initiatives. Here are the others:

All social initiatives
  • The audience in the hall during a meeting, a woman in a blue floral blouse in the front row

    Re_Action

    Grants of PLN 5,000 to 10,000 for local projects by organisations and residents’ groups. No own contribution.

    Get to know the programme
  • An outdoor family picnic, children receiving candy floss from an organiser

    #Grohmania

    Family picnics in the park by Fabryka Grohmana: bouncy castles, concerts, workshops. Free entry, on summer Sundays.

    See the picnics