The Sustainability Award for Theses
Students or graduates who are writing (or have written) their final thesis in the field of sustainable development can submit applications for the Sustainability Award for Final Theses until 15 September 2024. The University of Tübingen has been awarding the prize since 2011.
The Sustainability Award honours theses at Bachelor's and Master's level (or equivalent achievements) that are dedicated to a topic of sustainable development in an outstanding manner. The prize is endowed with 300 euros for Bachelor's theses and 500 euros for Master's theses. This year, for the first time, a prize of 1,000 euros will also be awarded for dissertations. It will be awarded in the autumn as part of a festive event, the highlight of which is the Sustainability Lecture.
The concept of the sustainability prize was developed by the Advisory Board for Sustainable Development, which took up an idea from the student initiative Greening The University e.V. Tübingen. By organising and publicly awarding the prize, the university is creating incentives for academic debate on the topic of sustainable development and making its relevance for society visible.
Further information on the competition can be found under "Downloads and links" in the right-hand column, and an overview of the award winners from previous years can be found below.
The Sustainability Awards Ceremony and Sustainability Lecture 2024 will take place on Nov. 05, 2024, starting at 6 p.m. (get more information here: Sustainability Lecture 2024).
Award winners 2023
Kategorie | Preisträger*in | Titel der Arbeit |
|---|---|---|
Bachelor | Mareike Andert | „Fallstricke auf dem Weg zur nachhaltigen Stadt. Eine Diskursnetzwerkanalyse“ (Politikwissenschaft) |
| Jana Mayer | „Towards an impact assessment for onshore wind power plants in Africa“ (Umweltnaturwissenschaften) |
| Leonie Sohr | „Phosphonate in Waschmitteln – Anwendung des Vorsorgeprinzips auf kritische Umweltabbauprodukte“ (Philosophie/Ethik B.Ed.) |
Master | Niklas Best | "Erfassung und Bewertung der Ökosystemdienstleistungen Biodiversität und Kohlenstoffbindung im urbanen Raum“ (Geoökologie) |
| Carina Haller | „Residential Energy Consumption of German Low-Income Households: The Influence of Social Benefit Transfers?“ (International Economics) |
| Jonas Mertens | „Interferon gamma induction of autophagic signalling is critical for immune control of Plasmodium liver stages” (Molekulare Medizin) |
