The Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation and TU Dresden award the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation scholarship prize to early-career researchers for particularly outstanding dissertations in the field of environmental technology, with a focus on engineering solutions for the reduction of pollutants, noise and energy consumption.

The founder, Friedrich August Boysen, was an airship engineer and pioneer of modern muffler technology. He founded his first company in Leipzig in 1921. After the Second World War, he made a new start in the south of Germany, where he founded today’s Boysen Group. His wife, Elisabeth Boysen, continued her husband's life's work and developed the company into an international systems partner in the fields of exhaust gas purification and silencing. In 1996, the company formed a non-profit foundation to promote science and research in the field of environmental technology. The foundation offers a funding sum of up to one million euros annually.

The Award
Every year, the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation awards a scholarship prize to TU Dresden. The scholarship prize is endowed with a total of €5,000.

The Jury
Alongside TU Dresden’s Vice-Rector Research and representatives of the Foundation Board and Advisory Board of the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation, Faculty representatives also participate in assessing the entries.

Award Ceremony
The award ceremony for the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation scholarship prize takes place in the winners’ faculties.

Applications
The call for applications always opens in the first quarter of the year. Those who completed and successfully defended their work between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year are eligible for nomination. Lecturers of TU Dresden may suggest nominees for the prize. Personal applications are also accepted.

2020 Winner
On the “Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering Day” on October 9, 2021, Dr. Franziska Graube-Kühne received an award for her dissertation titled “Methode zur Online-Diagnose der Verschmutzungen von Dampferzeugermembranwänden” (“Method for online diagnosis of contamination of steam generator membrane walls”).

You can find current calls for applications here:
Current call for applications