6 researchers,
6 pitches, € 42,000 prize money.
Once a year, the Stiftung Industrieforschung and Berlin universities look for young scientists with original and practically relevant ideas and approaches to solutions that have emerged from their innovative basic research as part of the "Forum Junge Spitzenforschung" science competition. This year, the focus is on Food & Nutrients.
Final 2024
On November 19, 2024, the Forum Junge Spitzenforschung awarded prizes for the most innovative applications in the field of Food & Nutrients.
Six young researchers were honored.
6 researchers,
6 pitches, € 42,000 prize money.
The Forum Junge Spitzenforschung is a young talent competition for application ideas from research. Six teams of young scientists compete with their ideas in front of a jury of top-class business experts and the audience for first place, endowed with €12,000 for free further use in the context of their own research! Second and third place are endowed with €10,000 and €8,000 respectively and the remaining finalists can look forward to prize money of €4,000.
With the kind support of Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH as a network partner of the Forum Junge Spitzenforschung.
Our topic 2024:
Food & Nutrients
We are facing a multitude of global challenges: Wars, climate change, a growing world population and social inequality, to name just a few examples. Research in the field of Food & Nutrients lays the foundation for us to better meet the global challenges of our time.
Smartgerechte Haltung?
The whole campaign on "Food & Nutrients".
Past events
Congratulations to all winners of the "Forum Junge Spitzenforschung 2024": Food & Nutrients
Special thanks
We would like to thank the Stiftung Industrieforschung for their kind support and for providing the prize money.
The partners
The event is organized in the "Science & Startups" network of the Berlin universities Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin as well as Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
The organizer
As a branch of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt-Innovation organizes the "Forum Junge Spitzenforschung".