Who?

Individuals as well as project groups from all over the world are entitled to apply.

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How?

Candidates can either be nominated or apply directly.

Please use our online form to submit your entry.

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What?

The prize is awarded for excellent research and development work on the application or generation of laser light.

Each work submitted for the Innovation Award will be evaluated in terms of progress of scientific findings in relation to the state of the art, the scientific quality, and technical creativity as well as the individual's achievements. Practical utility and benefits are very important issues.

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The core of the innovation of applications should be directly related to the effects or influence of laser light.

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Innovation shall be understood as the overall process including all steps from recognizing a demand, creating an idea, finding the necessary basics, the product development, and manufacturing of a marketable product. The term is not limited to technical products but can likewise be used for any process or method.

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By submitting documents to the competition, the participants agree to the following conditions:

• The applicant/applicants declare their full copyright to the work submitted and exempt the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung from any third party claims.
• The applicant/applicants consent to having the data specifically saved and used (see data privacy notice below).
• Any additional documents submitted by mail cannot be returned.
• The Berthold Leibinger Stiftung reserves the right to make changes and modifications to the conditions of participation.
• Legal action is excluded.
  

The application contains:

• Information on the application and an abstract of 5 to 10 lines in the online form
• Written documentation on the work (in accordance with the structure as stipulated below), of between 5 and 10 pages in length (pdf upload)
• A biography of the applicant or of the members of the project group applying, of max. 2 pages in length respectively (pdf upoad)
• an explanation of approximately one page in length describing the context within which the work was carried out (pdf upload)

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Structure of written documentation:

• Abstract of 5 to 10 lines technological
• State of the art
• Illustrated description of the innovation
• How the solution was reached
• Advantages or technological benefits of the innovation in relation to the state of the art
• Practical utility and/or benefits Language
  

If you wish to nominate someone else for the Innovation Award, please submit the following:

• Information on the nominee and his work with an abstract of 5 to 10 lines in the online form
• A short description of the work
• Reasons for prize worthiness of nominated innovation

All required documents must be written in English.

Submission of the application means automatic recognition to having the collected data specifically saved in the context of the innovation prize and to forwarding personal data and information contained in the documentation for the following purposes:

• Evaluation through the foundation's staff, jurors and external experts
• Publication of applicants, the title and abstract of applications
• Inclusion of applicants, nominated and nominators in distribution lists for information related to the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis and the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis
• Forwarding of information from finalists and prizewinners to service providers for public relation's purposes
• Forwarding of the documentary part of applications to anybody with a qualified interest (publication of the innovation)
• Information to be provided in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR where personal data are collected for the innovation award

Confidential information that should be excluded from the above uses will be handled strictly confidential when clearly marked so.