2025 University Prizes
How to submit proposals
Nominations for all prizes can be submitted to the University Management until March 31, 2025, by e-mail to . When submitting a nomination, please state for which prize you would like to make the nomination or application; it is not possible to submit a work or project for several prizes at the same time.
KU professors
KU professors can submit proposals for the following prizes:
Prize for the best Habilitation
Prize for the best doctoral thesis
Prize for the best Master's thesis
Prize of the Professor Sutor Foundation
Description of the research prizes
The prizes are sponsored by the Eichstätt University Association, the Sparkasse Ingolstadt-Eichstätt and the Volksbank-Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte and include endowed with 1,000 euros each.
DAAD Prize (German Academic Exchange Service)
This year as well, the KU will be entitled to award a prize in the name of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for excellent achievements of international students. The prize is endowed with 1000 euros. Professors are invited to submit proposals.
All KU members including students
For the following other prizes, all members of the KU, including students, may submit proposals:
Sustainability Prize
for innovative and practice-oriented final theses (Bachelor and Master) and teaching projects in the area of sustainability. This prize is sponsored by the foundation of the Gutmann brewery and is endowed with 1,000 euros.
Transfer Prize
In order to honor transfer activities at the KU and make them visible, the university awards a prize for knowledge transfer activities which is funded by the “innovative university” program. The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros. For this prize, you can nominate individual researchers or teams of researchers who have implemented research projects or teaching projects in which the transfer character is particularly evident: for example through transfer-oriented science communication, special moments of participation with stakeholders in the research process or through the establishment of sustainable cooperation with practice partners.
Prize for Excellent Teaching
The Prize for Excellent Teaching (sponsored by the Liga-Bank-Stiftung) is awarded for already implemented formats that can serve as best practice examples at the KU.
Description (in German):