Prizes and Awards

The Faculty of Business and Economics of the TU Dresden and the Dr Feldbausch Foundation annually recognise outstanding doctorates of the faculty with with the Dr. Feldbausch Award.

The price of €5,000 is divided between a maximum of 2 awardees.
Requirement for an application is that the doctoral thesis must be completed in the period from 01/2021 to 12/2021 and graded with a mark of “summa cum laude”.

The following criteria are required for this proposal:

• A copy of the thesis;
• The expertises of the thesis;
• A CV (including a list of publications) of the person to be awarded.

The selection of the theses will be carried out by a jury consisting of representatives of the Dr Feldbausch Foundation and the College of the Dean’s Office. All decisions are final and absolute.

Proposals made to this award may be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics by March 1, 2022.

Overview of the prize winners

The aim of the annual award is to support research projects of PhDs and postdoc candidates of the Faculty of Business and Economics in the areas of  empirical data analysis, business analytics, business intelligence or related fields.

Eligible costs include, for example: 

• Data collection for research projects
• Acquisition of hardware and software for data analysis, especially complex data
• Personnel support (SHK/WHK) for data collection and data analysis within the framework of research projects in the above-mentioned research area
• Organization of workshops, lecture series or other scientific events in the above-mentioned research areas

The price of €1,000 is divided between a maximum of 2 awardees.

The following criteria are required for this proposal:

• A description of the research project 
• A CV (with a list of publications) 
• A list oft he costs tob e expected or incurred

The selection of the theses will be carried out by the College of the Dean’s Office. All decisions are final and absolute.

Proposals made to this fund may be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics by 31 Ocotober 2022 (via e-mail: ).

Overview of the prize winners

The aim of the annual award is ...

• to enable academics of the Faculty of Business and Economics study and research visits abroad and
• to invite visiting academics from abroad to the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Criteria for the selection of the awardee are:

• Sustainability of the co-operation,
• promotion of young academics and
• the impact that the co-operation has on the faculty.

In general, only applications that refer to future projects will be funded.

Entitled to make a proposal are the professors of the faculty. The following criteria are required for making this proposal:

• A description of the project of the academic or visiting academic who will be funded;
• A CV of the academic or visiting academic who will be funded;
• A report of the professor making the proposal why this project is eligible.

Proposals made to this fund may be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics via e-mail by 1 March in the respective year.

Overview of the prize winners

The aim of the annual award is to financially support PhDs and postdoc candidates of the Faculty of Business and Economics in their efforts to establish and strengthen international research co-operations. Research stay abroad can be funded as well as inivitations auf international researchers to TU Dresden. The duration of the visit should be at least two weeks and up to a maximum of three months.

The invitation is addressed to young academics with a main research in Financial and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics and Statistics or Quantitative Methods.

The maximum funding amount per project applied for is €1,500.

A commission which consists of representatives of the college of the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Business and Economics and the German Federal Bank, Saxony and Thuringia Head Office decides on the distribution of the funds. All decisions are final and absolute.

The following criteria are required for this proposal:

• A description of the project (referring to the aims and tasks of the German Federal Bank);
• A CV and a list of publications;
• A report of the supervising professor making the proposal why this project is eligible;
• A confirmation of the inviting institution of the scheduled research visit.

Proposals made to this fund may be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Overview of the prize winners

The aim of the annual award is to support students of the Faculty of Business and Economics  who wants to study at a foreign university as part of their studies.

The price of €4,000 is divided between a maximum of 2 awardees.
Requirements for an application are: 

• Enrollment in a Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma program of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the TU Dresden; 
• Proof of an already planned study visit abroad for the winter semester 2022/2023 or the summer semester 2023 (e.g. the declaration of acceptance of a foreign university). 
• Payment of the prize money is subject to confirmation of attendance by the host university.

Your application includes in one pdf file:  

• Your letter of Motivation; 
• Your CV; 
• Your recent transcript of records;  
• An acceptance letter of the foreign university. 

A commission which consists of representatives of the college of the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Business and Economics and of nexus e.V. as well as a student decides on the distribution of the funds. Criteria for the selection are the university achievements, the non-university engagement as well as the presentation of the necessity of the stay abroad. All decisions are final and absolute.

Proposals made to this fund may be addressed by July 2022 via e-mail to 
 and .

Overview of the prize winners

Download Call for applications 2022