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Awards for Junior Academics

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Every year, a number of prizes are awarded to graduate students and doctoral candidates who have recently finished their doctorate at the University of Siegen for outstanding scientific achievements, sometimes in cooperation with the region. The exact criteria can be found in the respective guidelines; an overview can be found below.

Please direct alle enquiries to Ms Kathrin L. Wagner:

E-Mail: wagner@rektorat.uni-siegen.de 
Phone: +49 271 740-4074
Personal Consultant for Students and Junior Faculty of the Prorectorate for Students and Junior Faculty, Diversity, and International Affairs

 

Call for nominations:

Information on the next call for applications will be published here in due time.

 

  • Prerequisites
    • Graduation from a school in the district of Altenkirchen
    • Practical benefit for the economy
    • or cooperation with companies located in the district of Altenkirchen
    • or business- or economy-related structural investigation of issues concerning the district of Altenkirchen
  • Focus of Support
    • Doctoral, diploma, master's or bachelor's thesis
  • Endowment
    • EUR 2,000
    • In case of splitting: 2 × EUR 1,500
  • Guidelines
  • Prerequisites
    • Particularly outstanding final theses
    • Engineering, natural sciences or economics as subject area
    • Practical applicability of the research
    • Example of practice-oriented research and technology transfer from university to industry
  • Focus of Support
    • Doctoral, diploma, master's or bachelor's thesis
  • Endowment
    • EUR 4,000
    • The award will be split between two theses
  • Guidelines
  • Prerequisites
    • Particularly qualified thesis that opens up a historical perspective in terms of content and methodology
  • Focus of Support
    • Especially dissertations and habilitation theses
  • Endowment
    • EUR 1,000
    • Possibility of a separate application for printing subsidies
  • Guidelines
  • Prerequisites
    • Particularly qualified thesis
  • Focus of Support
    • Especially dissertations and habilitation theses
  • Endowment
    • EUR 1,000
  • Guidelines
  • Prerequisites
    • Particularly high quality of examination performance
    • Foreign citizenship
  • Focus of Support
    • Dissertations
  • Endowment
    • EUR 1,000
  • Guidelines

 

Further awards 

If you have any questions about the following awards, please get in touch with the contact persons listed:
 

International Awards

Information on further international awards can be found here. 
Contact: Prorectorate for Students and Junior Faculty, Diversity, and International Affairs (prorektorat-ndi@uni-siegen.de)

 

Wolfgang-Popp-Preis

The Center for Gender Studies Siegen (Gestu_S) awards the Wolfgang Popp award for gender studies to outstanding final theses (master's theses, diploma theses) that deal with topics of gender studies. 
Contact: Dr Uta Fenske (uta.fenske@uni-siegen.de)

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