The award for outstanding science communication

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 2025 is closed. A call for applications for the 2026 Communicator Award will be issued in late summer 2025. Applications (in german only) must be submitted via the DFG elan portal.

2024 Communicator Award Goes to “Cyber and the City” Research Team from Tübingen

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Communicator Award 2024

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The team receives the award worth €50,000 in recognition of their outstanding and diverse science communication in developing and implementing of the exhibition “Cyber and the City: Artificial Intelligence Moves Tübingen”, which also provides a role model for how to engage in dialogue on other controversial topics relating to science and technology.