Danubius Award

The Danubius Award was established in 2011 by the IDM and the BMWF (today: BMBWF) to honour people who have made a special contribution to the Danube region in their scientific work or in their work.

In order to do justice to the diversity of the Danube region, the broadest possible spectrum of scientific disciplines should be covered and the interdisciplinary character of the research emphasized. Accordingly, in the rotation principle, achievements in the humanities, cultural and social sciences are awarded in one year and in the life sciences in the following year. Contributions that serve intercultural understanding, the improvement of living conditions and thus the coexistence of people in the Danube region appear particularly worthy of an award.

The Danubius Award is intended to be a recognition of a profound scientific examination of the Danube region.
The prize is divided into two categories

A) The Danubius Mid-Career Award
This prize is awarded to researchers from 5 to a maximum of 15 years after their last formal scientific degree or equivalent scientific experience, whereby years of suspension of the scientific career (e.B: for family or health reasons or work outside the scientific field) are taken into account with appropriate proof.

B) The Danubius Award
This award is independent of formal age limits or the number of years since the last formal scientific degree or the respective status in the scientific world – and is awarded exclusively with reference to the overall scientific merits in and around the Danube region.

The Danubius Mid-Career Award is endowed with € 2,200,- , the Danubius Award with € 5,000; both prizes will be awarded annually from 2017 onwards, although a further division into several persons is not planned in principle. The winners are selected by an independent jury of experts. Applications for the Danubius Award are not planned. The Danubius Award is intended to contribute to the better visibility of the Danube region and to the increased perception of its multidisciplinary challenges and potentials; accompanied by the encouragement to deal with it on a scientific level.

Award Winners:

2011
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Roth
Ethnologist, LMU Munich

2012
Prof. Dr. Miroslav J. Vesković
Nuclear physicist, University of Novi Sad

2014
Prof. Dr. András Inotai
Economist, Institute of World Economy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2015
Em. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. DDr. h.c. Leopold März
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)

2016
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Fialová
Germanist, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

2017
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maroš Finka
Spatial Planner, Slovak Technical University Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2018
Danubius Award
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Béla Greskovits 
Political scientist, Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Hungary

Danubius Mid-Career Award
Dr. Ana Hofman
Senior Research Associate, Institute for Cultural and Memory Research, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2019
Danubius Award
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Jiří Balík, CSc., dr. h. c.
Professor of Agrochemistry and Plant Nutrition, University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic

Danubius Mid-Career Award
Dr. Silvija Krajter Ostoić
Research Associate, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Jastrebarsko, Croatia

2020
Danubius Award
Prof. Dr. Andrei Pippidi
Historian and Professor Emeritus, University of Bucharest, Romania

Danubius Mid-Career Award
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniela Dolenec
Political Scientist, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia