Calls For Applications
BMBF-Science Award for Sustainable Development
As of 2012, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will award the new Science Award for Excellent Research for Sustainable Development. The award will honour scientific contributions to the national sustainability strategy and to the high technology strategy in the fields of climate protection, resource protection and energy, for example, projects in the context of the BMBF framework programme FONA - Research for Sustainable Development. With the new prize, introduced at the end of the Science Year 2012 "Project Earth: Our Future", the BMBF sets new points of focus each year. In 2012, the award will go to researchers or research teams promoting "Sustainability Made in Germany". The prize will be awarded on 7 December 2012 in the context of the award ceremony for the German Sustainability Award.
Cut-off date for submissions: 31 August 2012
