A selection of renowned prizes for established academics and scholars:

Alfried Krupp Scholarship Prize

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation awards the Alfried Krupp Scholarship Prize for young lecturers to natural scientists and engineers with outstanding academic qualifications and research achievements. Early-career researchers who are under the age of 39 and appointed to a permanent or temporary professorship at a German university can be nominated for the award. The prize has an endowment of one million euros. More information in German: Alfried Krupp Scholarship Prize for early-career lecturers

Balzan Prize

The international Balzan Prize Foundation promotes culture and science worldwide and awards initiatives that encourage peace and fraternity among peoples. To realize their objectives, the Foundation awards four prizes annually – two in the fields of art, humanities and social sciences and two in the fields of physics, mathematics, natural sciences and medicine.
International Balzan Prize Foundation

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize

The Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences – awards this distinction to academics or research teams who have made a significant scientific contribution to tackling the great challenges society faces today. The prize has an endowment of 50,000 euros and is awarded every other year.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize

Communicator Award

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG – German Research Foundation) tenders the “Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors' Association.” This prize has an endowment of 50,000 euros and is awarded to academics or teams from all research areas who make their scientific work and field accessible to a broad audience. Their communication style must be particularly innovative, diverse and effective, thus encouraging dialogue between academia and society.
Communicator Award

The Federal President’s German Future Prize

The Federal President’s German Future Prize honors scientists whose ideas and products help make the German economy more sustainable or make use of digitalization potential. Whether it is thermal insulation for buildings, robots for microsurgery, or optics and lasers for manufacturing computer chips, we need technology and innovations that help shape the world of tomorrow. We need to make use of these for the good of a democratic society, to benefit people.
German Future Prize

Ernst Jung Prize

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research is committed to medical science. Every year, the Foundation awards three prizes in honor of basic or further-reaching research projects of particular clinical significance. The aim is to promote the development of new medical treatments. The Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine and the Ernst Jung Career Advancement Award for Medical Research rank among the highest awards of this category throughout Europe, with a total endowment sum of €540,000.
Ernst Jung Prize

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research prize in Germany. Established in 1985, the Leibnitz Program aims to improve the working conditions of outstanding researchers, expand their research opportunities, relieve them of administrative tasks and help them employ well-qualified early-career researchers. The prize has an endowment of 2.5 million euros.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Hansen Family Award

The Bayer Foundation’s Hansen Family Award is awarded biennially. It honors world-leading scientists from German-speaking countries for pioneering achievements in medical science. The prize has an endowment of 75,000 euros.
Hansen Family Award

Hector Science Award

Every year, the Hector Foundation awards the Hector Science Award of 150,000 euros to professors from German universities and research institutions active in the STEM fields. The prize honors outstanding research achievements, commitment to teaching and the promotion of early-career scientists. The winning professors must also demonstrate their overall contribution to the advancement of teaching, science and/or their university. The winners become Hector Fellows and are inducted as members to the Hector Fellow Academy.
Hector Science Award

Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize

The Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize honors outstanding scientific achievements that have sparked proven inspiration for innovative applications and have been promoted by the prizewinners themselves. The proven achievement as well as the idea or preparation for its application must have been carried out at a publicly funded institute. The application or planned application must testify to the benefits of the scientific achievement. The Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize is awarded every other year and has an endowment of 30,000 euros.
More information in German: Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize

Körber European Science Prize

Every year, the Körber European Science Prize awards outstanding individuals working on future-oriented research in Europe. Excellent and innovative research approaches with high application potential on the way to global recognition are selected to receive the award by panels of top scientists from all across Europe.
Körber European Science Prize

Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation have revamped their joint award: Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award has an endowment of 1.5 million euros and is presented to a researcher from abroad. It is aimed at individuals distinguished by their outstanding potential. The award is intended to attract outstanding and particularly innovative international scientists to German universities and research institutions for research residencies of limited time periods.
Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

Otto Bayer Prize

With the Otto Bayer Prize, the Bayer Foundation honors scientists who have made pioneering research in innovative areas of chemistry, biochemistry and biology.
Otto Bayer Prize