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Funding External Research Prizes (Selected)

The distinction of outstanding scientific achievements is an important component of the promotion of science and research. Science organisations, companies, foundations and associations grant numerous prizes of this kind every year.

Heidelberg University announces these national and international research prizes regularly and invites faculties as well as scientists and scholars to nominate suitable candidates. Research prizes which can be applied for by self-nomination are announced regularly by the Research Division through the INFOR-News Information Service.

* Announcements for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Hector Science Award are issued by the Rectorate.

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Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

all disciplines
€ 50,000




Alfried Krupp Fellowship for Young Professors

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
Natural sciences, engineering sciences
€ 1,000,000 (over 5 years)
Association for Informatics (GI) – Dissertation Prize

Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V.
Informatics
€ 5,000
Augsburg Academic Prize for Intercultural Studies

FILL (e.V.) in cooperation with the university and city of Augsburg

all disciplines

  • Main prize: Diss. / Habil.
  • Promotional prize: Master's, Diplom, Magister or State examination theses
  • € 5,000 (Main prize)
  • € 1,500 (Promotional prize)
Baden-Württemberg State Research Award

State of Baden-Württemberg
all disciplines
€ 200,000

Balzan Prizes

International Balzan Prize Foundation

Alternating: Humanities, social sciences and art; physics, mathematics, natural sciences and medicine.
4 x 750.000 CHF
Bayer Thrombosis Research Award

Bayer Foundations
Medicine, human biology
€ 30,000
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize

Stifterverband / Leopoldina
Humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, medicine
€ 50,000

Communicator Award

DFG

all disciplines
€ 50,000
Copernicus Award

DFG / Foundation for Polish Science
all disciplines
€ 50,000
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

DFG
all disciplines
€ up to 2.5 million (over 5 years)
Hansen Family Award

Bayer Foundations

Basic Medical Research

€ 75,000
Hector Science Award​​​​​​​

Hector Foundation II​​​​​​​
MINT subjects
€ 150,000
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize​​​​​​​

DFG
all disciplines
10 x € 20,000
Karl Heinz Beckurts Award

Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation​​​​​​​
all disciplines
3 x € 30,000
Klaus O. Fleck Prize for the advancement of young scientists

IHK Rhein-Neckar​​​​​​​
Humanities, social sciences, business sciences, geosciences, medicine
€ 5,000
Leopoldina Early Career Award by the Commerzbank-Stiftung

Commerzbank-Stiftung​​​​​​​
all disciplines represented by the Leopoldina
€ 30,000
Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences

Fondation Bettencourt Schueller​​​​​​​
Life Sciences
€ 300,000
Max Planck Research Award

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / Max Planck Society
annually alternating within the natural sciences, engineering, life sciences and humanities.
2 x € 750,000
Millennium Technology Prize

Technology Academy Finland​​​​​​​
Natural Sciences
€ 1,000,000
Otto Bayer Award

Bayer Science & Education Foundation
Chemistry and biochemistry
€ 75,000
Südwestmetall Award for Young Scholars

Südwestmetall
all disciplines
9 x € 5,000
World Cultural Council Awards

World Cultural Council​​​​​​​
  • Science Award
  • Education Award
  • Arts Award
$ 10,000
ZONTA Academic Award

Zonta-Club Heidelberg
specified in the call for proposals
€ 3,000

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