Award of the University of Freiburg for Excellent Doctoral Supervision 2025
With the Award of the University of Freiburg for Excellent Doctoral Supervision, the University honours the outstanding commitment of supervisors and expresses its appreciation for their extraordinary contribution. In addition, the prize is intended to further strengthen the supervision culture at the University of Freiburg, to increase the visibility and importance of this topic and to highlight examples of good supervision practice.
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The prize is endowed with € 2,000 and is intended to support doctoral candidates. Up to two prizes may be awarded per year.
- Personal engagement in supervision
- Communication style in the supervisory relationship
- Support of scientific development and career planning
- Other outstanding aspects of supervision
Please address these criteria in your nomination text.
Who can be nominated? All members of the University of Freiburg who have the right to supervise doctoral candidates and supervise your dissertation project scientifically. You can also nominate a team of supervisors, provided that all of them have the right to supervise doctoral candidates and supervise your dissertation project scientifically.
Who can nominate? All doctoral candidates of the University of Freiburg who are either enrolled or exempt from enrolment (registered) as well as postdoctoral researchers up to one year after completion of the oral examination. Each nomination must be submitted jointly by at least two persons.
Please email the following nomination documents as one PDF file to promotionsbetreuungspreis@zv.uni-freiburg.de:
- Nomination form
- Nomination text. The text should be limited to approx. 800 words. Please structure the text according to the above-mentioned criteria and explain why your supervisor is an excellent supervisor. Give examples that go beyond good supervision as described in the Guidelines for Good Supervision of Doctoral Candidates.
Please note: Due to the anonymous selection process, we kindly ask you not to use the name and department of the proposed person(s) in your nomination text.
After receiving your nomination, your personal data as well as the names and subjects of the nominated supervisors will be anonymized. Subsequently, the proposals will be forwarded to the selection committee, which is composed of representatives of professors, postdocs (R3), doctoral candidates, GraCe and GDaPE under the chairmanship of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
The awardees will be honored during the opening of the academic year on 15.10.2025.
