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Awards

Information on prizes and awards for postdocs can be found via the following links:

• e-fellows.net (scholarship database at e-fellows.net that includes prizes and awards)
• Scholarship pilot (scholarship database of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that includes prizes and awards)
• academics.de (academic awards and scholarships)

This is a list of some of the awards available to postdocs:

• Academics Nachwuchspreis (Academics Junior Scholarship Award)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (for postdocs from abroad)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (for postdocs from abroad who have completed their doctoral degree in the last six years)
• Bayer Foundations (life sciences, chemistry, and medicine)
• German Research Foundation (DFG) – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Communicator Award, and other awards
• Klaus Tschira Stiftung – KlarText – Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation (Prize for Communicating Academic Content)
• Volkswagen Foundation – Förderpreis Opus Primum (Opus Primum Promotion Award)