We are pleased to announce that Prof. Yurii Zhuchok from the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University (Poltava, Ukraine), who is a visiting member of our institute, has been awarded an Ernst Mach Scholarship sponsored by the Austria's Agency for Education and Internatonalisaton, Mobility Programmes and Cooperation. With this scholarship, he will be able to continue his research on endomorphism semigroups of free digroups. We are grateful to Prof. em. Guenter Pilz for his dedicated support in setting up this grant.