Announcement of the Tim Spier Study Award 2026

16.01.2026 Pascal Braun

The Sociology and Political Science departments award the Tim Spier Study Prize to outstanding theses written between the summer semester 2025 and the winter semester 2025/26. The prize is awarded to university graduates who have submitted a Bachelor's or Master's thesis in the social sciences since the deadline of the last award ceremony (31.03.2025). The prize is endowed with €750 for a Bachelor's thesis and €1000 for a Master's thesis. The prize money will be split if there are several prize-worthy theses. A PDF copy of the thesis, the reviews and a short biography of the author must be submitted for assessment. Self-nominations are also possible. Nominations are possible until March 31, 2026.

About the Tim Spier Study Award

Since 2007, the Department of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, i.e. the subjects of Political Science and Sociology, has awarded the Social Sciences Student Prize for outstanding Bachelor's, Master's and state theses. The prize is awarded annually at the Spring/Summer Festival of Social Sciences, which focuses on the exchange between students and lecturers in a festive and convivial setting.

In 2018, the study award was renamed the Tim SpierStudy Award in memory of our colleague Tim Spier, who passed away at the end of 2017.
was renamed the Tim Spier Study Award. The Department of Social Sciences thus honors Tim Spier's outstanding commitment to teaching.

Tim Spier's family has supported the prize with a generous donation.