Gips-Schüle Research Award

The Gips-Schüle Research Award is a German research award. It honors interdisciplinary research projects "with high innovation potential and social benefit". The Stuttgart Gips-Schüle Foundation announced the research award for the first time in 2012 in order to promote scientific work in the field of "Technology for People" and to honor special achievements. The prize, endowed with 50,000 euros since the anniversary year 2015, has been awarded every two years since 2013.

Requirements and award criteria

The prize is aimed at researchers whose projects are carried out at private or public research institutions or commercial enterprises in Baden-Württemberg . Submitted research projects may have been completed a maximum of two years prior to submission, or must presumably be completed within two years of submission. The three award criteria are innovation potential, interdisciplinarity and application relevance in connection with social benefit. They flow equally into the jury's decision. Relevant subject areas are, for example, health, the environment, mobility or housing and life.

Tender

The Gips-Schüle Research Prize has been announced every two years since 2013. The award was presented on October 10, 2012 and awarded for the first time. The keynote address for the event was given by Wilhelm Krull , Chairman of the Association of German Foundations . At the introductory panel discussion on "Research Support" in the 21st century took Theresia Bauer , Minister of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg, Peter Frankenberg , Minister. D. for Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg and Thomas Weber , Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG .

In 2015, the Gips-Schüle Research Prize was endowed with 50,000 euros on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Gips-Schüle Foundation and awarded during the festivities on November 24th in Stuttgart.

jury

The independent jury of the Gips-Schüle Research Award is made up of:

• Peter Frankenberg , member of the supervisory board of the Gips-Schüle Foundation, former Minister D. for science, research and art of the state of Baden-Württemberg and member of the advisory board of the Center for University Development
• Britta Nestler, head of the institute for microstructure simulation in materials technology at KIT and at the Institute of Materials and Processes at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
• Ortwin Renn , Managing Director and Head of the Department of Technology and Environmental Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart, and Chairman of the Sustainability Advisory Board of Baden-Württemberg (NBBW).
• Engelbert Westkämper , former head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA and former professor and director of the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Factory Management at the University of Stuttgart.
• Markus Brock , TV presenter at Südwestrundfunk.

Winner of the Gips-Schüle Research Prize

• 2013: Bionics project "Flectofin" of the Universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg
• 2015: Research project "Nanoparticles for an environmentally friendly production of organic solar cells" of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with MJR PharmJet GmbH
• 2017: Project for the development of a plasmonic photodetector of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• 2019: Stefan Stevanović from the University of Tübingen, in his active ingredient peptide laboratory, he and his interdisciplinary team produce vaccines for cancer immunotherapy from the body's own peptides.

Other prizes from the Gips-Schüle Foundation

Thomas Ducrée Prize for Social Innovation

The Thomas Ducrée Prize for Social Innovation , formerly the Gips-Schüle Special Research Prize for Social Innovation , is awarded every two years by the Gips-Schüle Foundation together with the Gips-Schüle Research Prize. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros and honors interdisciplinary research projects with particular social relevance. It was launched in 2013 by the board of directors of the Gips-Schüle Foundation. The award criteria are interdisciplinarity, innovation potential and application relevance in the social area. It is not possible to apply directly for the special research award or to propose projects for the special research award. Instead, the winners will be selected from the submissions for the Gips-Schüle Research Award. In 2016, the award was renamed in memory of former board member Thomas Ducrée. In 2019, the award was named Klaus Koeppen Prize for Social Innovation.

Gips-Schüle special research award for social innovation

• 2013: Joint project “Assistance systems for people with reduced performance in manual assembly” of the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences , Schnaithmann Maschinenbau GmbH and the Heilbronn Protective Workshop
• 2015: Research project "The sensorimotor piano" of the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich
• 2019: Nicolas Rüsch and research group at the Clinic for Psychiatry of the University of Ulm / BKH Günzburg for the group program "Stand with dignity"

Gips-Schüle Foundation

The Gips-Schüle Research Prize is awarded by the Gips-Schüle Foundation, a civil law foundation for the promotion of science and research , young talent and teaching based in Stuttgart .

The foundation was established in 1965 by the descendants of the married couple Eduard and Marie Schüle in Bad Cannstatt near Stuttgart. The Schüle couple introduced industrial gypsum mining in the region with the construction of the first gypsum factory in Stuttgart in 1870. Over the years, the company and with it the family fortune, with which a foundation was established after the death of the siblings Bruno, Julie and Berta Schüle. The purpose of the articles of association was initially “the transfer of the income from the foundation's assets to the employees of the Schüle companies”. In 1979 the purpose of the foundation was expanded to include the promotion of science and research. In 2009, in addition to pure research funding, the promotion of young talent and teaching was added.

The board of directors is Stefan Hofmann as sole director, who took over the office in 2016 after the death of his predecessor Thomas Ducrée. The supervisory board has seven members, including a. Erwin Teufel , Cornelia Horz and Peter Frankenberg .

Web links

• Gips-Schüle Research Award
• Gips-Schüle Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/service/pressemitteilungen/presse-detailseite/forschungsfoerderung-ist-gemeinwohlfoerderung/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KckOrfLDbI
3. ^ First Gips-Schüle research award for bionics project at Focus Online ; Retrieved October 23, 2013
4. ↑ Monika Landgraf: Gips-Schüle research award for environmentally friendly production of organic solar cells. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, press release from November 24, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 24, 2015.
5. ↑ Monika Landgraf: Gips-Schüle research award for ultra-compact photodetector. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, press release from November 29, 2017 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 29, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Gips-Schüle Research Awards 2019 go to researchers from the University of Tübingen and the University of Ulm. (PDF; 591 kB) In: gips-schuele-stiftung.de. Gips-Schüle-Stiftung, November 4, 2019, accessed on November 6, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Research Prize of the Gips-Schüle Foundation: Copied from the blossom - Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved August 23, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: Gips-Schüle Foundation: Excellent Researchers - Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .