Alfried Krupp Award

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation awards the Alfried Krupp Prize for Young University Teachers to natural and engineering scientists with outstanding scientific qualifications and excellent research achievements. Early-career researchers who hold a permanent or temporary Chair at a German university and are no older than 38 years of age can be nominated for the award. The prize is endowed with one million euros. Alfried Krupp Prize for young university lecturers

Balzan Prize

The International Balzan Prize Foundation promotes culture and science worldwide as well as meritorious initiatives for peace and brotherhood among peoples. To realize its goals, four prizes are awarded annually, two in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Arts and two in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and School of Medicine.
International Balzan Prize Foundation

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize

This personal prize of the Leopoldina is awarded to scientists or research teams who have made a contribution to the scientific treatment of socially important problem areas. The prize is endowed with 50,000 euros and is awarded every two years.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize

Communicator Prize

The "Communicator Prize - Science Prize of the Stifterverband" is awarded by the DFG. This personal prize is endowed with 50,000 euros and is awarded to scientists or teams from all disciplines who make their scientific work and their subject area accessible to a broad audience in a particularly innovative, diverse and effective way and are thus committed to the dialog between science and society.
Communicator Prize

German Future Prize of the Federal President

The German Future Prize of the Federal President honours scientists whose ideas and products help to make our economy more sustainable or to exploit the opportunities of digitalization. Whether it's thermal insulation for buildings, robots for microsurgery or optics and lasers for the production of computer chips: We need technology and innovation to shape the world of tomorrow, and we need it to serve democratic society, for the benefit of the people.
German Future Prize

Ernst Jung Prize

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research is dedicated to human medicine. With three annual awards, it honors basic and advanced research projects of particular clinical relevance. The aim is to promote the development of new therapeutic options. The Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold and the Ernst Jung Career Advancement Prize for Medical Research are among the most highly endowed medical prizes in Europe, with a total sum of 540,000 euros.
Ernst Jung Prize

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research funding prize in Germany. The aim of the Leibniz program, which was established in 1985, is to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists, expand their research opportunities, relieve them of administrative workloads and make it easier for them to employ particularly qualified younger scientists. The prize is endowed with up to 2.5 million euros.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Hector Science Prize

Every year, the Hector Foundation awards the Hector Science Prize of 150,000 euros to professors from German universities and research institutions in the STEM fields for outstanding research achievements, commitment to teaching and the promotion of early-career researchers as well as overarching contributions to the further development of teaching, science and/or their university. The award winners are appointed Hector Fellow and accepted as members of the Hector Fellow Academy.
Hector Science Prize

Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize

The Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize is awarded for outstanding scientific achievements that have provided demonstrable impetus for innovative applications promoted by the prizewinner. The proven achievement, the idea or the preparation of the application should have been carried out at a publicly funded institution. An already achieved or clearly emerging implementation must prove the benefit of the outstanding achievement. The Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize is awarded every two years and is endowed with 30,000 euros.
Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize

Körber Prize for European Science

The Körber Prize for European Science is awarded annually to outstanding individual scientists working in Europe for their seminal research work. Committees made up of top scientists from all over Europe select and award prizes for excellent and innovative research approaches with high application potential on the way to global recognition.
Körber Prize for European Science

Max Planck-Humboldt Research Prize

The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation have realigned their joint research award: The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award is endowed with 1.5 million euros and is awarded to a researcher from abroad. The focus is on personalities who are characterized by outstanding future potential. The prize is awarded to outstanding and particularly innovative scientists conducting research abroad for temporary research stays at a German university or research institution.
Max Planck Humboldt Research Prize

Otto Bayer Prize

The Otto Bayer Prize of the Bayer Foundation honors scientists who have made pioneering research contributions in innovative fields of chemistry, biochemistry or biology.
Otto Bayer Prize