The “Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors' Association” is announced by the DFG. This personal award is worth €50,000 and is presented to researchers or teams from all fields of research who make their research work and specialist area accessible to a wider audience in a particularly innovative, diverse and effective way and engage in a dialogue between the research community and the public.
Nominations and self-nominations can be submitted for the award. The winner of the award is chosen by a jury of communication experts and science journalists chaired by a member of the Executive Committee of the DFG. When selecting the prizewinners, the jury acknowledges the creativity, conceptual framework, target group orientation of communication and the nominee's commitment to further developing science communication, amongst other things.
This year's application round for the Communicator Award 2026 is now closed. A call for applications for the Communicator Award 2027 will be issued in late summer 2026. Applications must be submitted digitally via the DFG's elan portal(externer Link).
Professor Dr. Ute Schmid (University of Bamberg) receives the €50,000 prize for her outstanding science communication on the topic of artificial intelligence. She reaches a broad audience ranging from elementary school students to political decision-making bodies and small and medium-sized enterprises. In social and educational discourse, she focuses on the relationship between humans and technology – always with the aim of fostering participation and countering the digital divide in society. Read more(interner Link)
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