The Hamburg Science Prize

of the Foundation “Hamburgische Stiftung für Wissenschaften, Entwicklung und Kultur Helmut und Hannelore Greve”

Since 2009 the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg has conferred this Germany-wide prize in the name of the Foundation “Hamburgische Stiftung für Wissenschaften, Entwicklung und Kultur Helmut und Hannelore Greve”. The Foundation has generously endowed the prize of 150,000 euros. The Hamburg Science Prize thus amounts to one of the highest sums of any science prize awarded by a German Academy of Sciences.

Goals of the Hamburg Science Prize:

• Honouring outstanding achievements in research
• An incentive for future scientific work
• Attention to its research field

As well as honouring science, it also supports it: the prize money is intended to support further research activity. The candidate’s proposed use of the prize money is a deciding criterion when making the award. What is honoured is not a complete life’s work in science, but research that has proved its quality and at the same is a work in progress.

Outstanding scientific work in progress for human well-being

The prize is awarded every two years. The Germany-wide competition is generally based on a particular theme that can relate to all disciplines of natural and social science, technology and humanities.