Bielefeld Science Award

Bielefeld Science Award

General information on the award and the nomination process 2020

As a remembrance to Bielefeld's grand sociologist Niklas Luhmann Bielefeld Science Award has been awarded every two years by Sparkasse Bielefeld Foundation in close cooperation with Bielefeld University and the City of Bielefeld since 2004. The award honors outstanding (inter-)national researchers from arts and humanities, social and life sciences and comes with a grant of 25,000 Euro.

Chaired by the rector of Bielefeld University a selection committee of well-respected persons is responsible for the selection of the laureate.

Bielefeld Science Award 2020 goes to Professor Bettina Schöne-Seifert. The awarding ceremony will take place at Bielefeld University in Spring/Summer 2021. The laudatio will be held by Professor Claudia Wiesemann, head of the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Goettingen University Medical Center.

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November 2020 - New to the selection committee: Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Andreas Voßkuhle!

Sparkasse Bielefeld Foundation and Bielefeld University are proud to announce that the former President of the Federal Constitutional Court Professor Dr. Dres. h. c. Andreas Voßkuhle has accepted to join the selection committee. He succeeds Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Dieter Grimm who has been member of the selection committee since the first awarding in 2004.