Award of Excellence
of the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research for graduates of doctoral programmes in the academic year 2023/2024
Since 2008, the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research has been awarding an annual prize for outstanding dissertations at universities as a sign of support for young academics.
Overall, the best graduates of doctoral programmes in the academic year 2023/2024 will be honoured with the "Award of Excellence" with the amount of 3,000 euros each.
The number of nominations per university is based on the number of degrees per university. The University of Innsbruck can nominate four people in 2024.
Graduates of doctoral programmes from the academic year 2023/2024 are eligible to apply.
- Austrian citizenship, EEA citizenship or well as third-country nationals and stateless persons with equal status according to § 4 StudFG
- Completion of the degree programme at the University of Innsbruck in the academic year 2023/2024
- Best assessed final examination (Rigorosum, Defensio)
- The dissertation must be excellent and best evaluated
When selecting award winners, preference will be given to externally reviewed dissertations or external reviews (if an in-house review and an external review are available) will be given greater weight in the evaluation process.
The next tender is expected to take place again in summer 2025.
Please have the application entered into the project database responsible project database officer at your department and upload all documents individually as .pdf files. Send the project database number as an application by e-mail to forschungsfoerderung@uibk.ac.at no later than
Thursday 05th of September 2024
Documents to be submitted
- Data sheet of the Federal Ministry download
Citizenship (copy of proof of citizenship or passport)
Study record and confirmation of study period LFU:online
Degree certificate (Rigorosenzeugnis) and notification of the award of the academic degree
Both dissertation reports
Short description of the dissertation (max. 1 page)
curriculum vitae and list of publications
Letter of motivation (1-2 pages)
With an application, all rights necessary for the purpose of processing are granted. With regard to data protection, please note the following link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/datenschutz/allgemeine-verwaltung.html#foerderungen
The prizes will be awarded by November at the latest. The awards ceremony will take place on 5 December 2024 in Vienna in the Aula der Wissenschaften.
The German version of the call prevails over the English one in case deviations.
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