HTWK Foundation Dissertation Prize
To support early-career researchers, the HTWK Foundation awards an annual prize of 3,000 euros for an outstanding doctoral thesis.

The prize serves to highlight the importance of early-career researchers at the university and to recognise the achievements of doctoral candidates who have made a remarkable academic contribution to research within the framework of collaborative doctoral programmes – and this despite existing administrative and substantive hurdles, which requires particular courage and the ability to navigate the circumstances at hand. The HTWK Foundation’s Dissertation Prize is intended to recognise such outstanding academic work that is of clear practical significance and whose research findings can be applied in practice accordingly.
Previous winners
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Award winners 2014 to 2026