Endowment: 5,000 euros
The City of Innsbruck awards the prize to recognise research and innovation at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI). It honours the work of young talents.
Who awards the prize?
City of Innsbruck
How do I apply?
The call for applications is organised by the MCI. Please address enquiries about the submission criteria directly to the MCI.
Who can apply?
Members of the research and teaching staff at MCI are eligible to apply if they
- have either not yet reached the age of 35 or
- whose doctorate or habilitation was awarded no more than five years ago.
Who decides on the award?
The City Senate decides on the awarding of the prize or prizes to those persons who are announced annually to the municipality of Innsbruck by the MCI Innsbruck. The award winners are selected by a jury consisting of experts appointed by the MCI. The City of Innsbruck leaves it to the MCI Innsbruck to organise the announcement and selection of the award winners.
Previous award winners
| Year | Award winners |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Dr StefanieHaselwanter: "Entrepreneurial Leadership in the spatial context of action: Characterisation of entrepreneurial leaders as actors in touristic-social fields" Dr. Sabrina Dumfort, BSc MSc: "Improvement of the Storability of Wood Chips through the Application of pH Altering Additives" |
| 2024 | Prof.in Christiane Aufschnaiter, Bakk. Phil. PhD: "Consuming Materiality in the Digital Age" Dr.in-Ing.in Verena Schallhart, MSc: "Development of Conductive Ceramic Composites for Directly Heated Substrates" |
| 2023 | Mag. Anita Onay, PhD: "Hierarchical Production Planning and Control from a Behavioural Operations Perspective Focusing on Lead Time Management" Dr. Daniel Degischer: "Organising for M&A Success: Acquisition Experience and its Contextual Dependencies" Dr Jan Back, MSc: "Rethinking Water Treatment: Membranes, Adsorption, Advanced Oxidation and Natural Attenuation" |
| 2022 | Ass. FH-Prof.in Dr. Claudia Zoller and Lukas Kerschbaumer, BA MA: "MOVEEFFECT Life Coach" Manuel Berger, BSc MSc PhD: "Simulation-based prediction of resection zones in rhinology" |
| 2021 | Prof.in (FH) Dr. Teresa Spieß (university lecturer, Management, Communication & IT degree programme): "An Interactional Perspective of Innovative Work Behavior - Analysis of the Situational Specificity of Broad and Narrow Personality Traits as Predictors" Dr.-Ing. Martin Pillei, B.Sc., M.Sc (Senior Lecturer, Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme): "Optimisation of direct current cyclones with low solids loading" |
| 2020 | Dr LeenaSaurwein (Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations): "Elucidating the Dimensions of Communication and the Role of Culture in an Austrian Medical Setting" Dr.rer.nat. Martin Spruck, MSc (University Lecturer, Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering degree programme): "Development of a process combination for the elimination of trace substances in wastewater based on membrane filtration and adsorption on activated carbon" |
| 2019 | Dipl.Ing. Dr. techn. habil. Lukas Möltner: "Renewable Fuels, Advanced Combustion and Emission Control - Approaches to Fulfill Prospective Demands on Internal Combustion Engines" Dr Thomas Senfter: "Development of a suitable separator for the separation of impurities such as glass, sand and metal particles at wastewater treatment plants" |
| 2018 | FH-Prof.in PD MMag.a Dr.in habil. Anita Zehrer: "Entrepreneurship in tourism - entrepreneurial behaviour of service companies illustrated using the example of tourism" FH-Prof. PD Dr. Thomas Stöckl: "Research work on the investigation of situations in which financial markets are characterised by the existence of asymmetric information distribution" |
| 2017 | FH-Prof.in Dr. Gabriela Leiß, MBA: "Successfully shaping the intergenerational succession process of family businesses" Dr.techn. Michael Meister: "Integrating hydrodynamics and biokinetics in wastewater treatment modelling by using smoothed particle hydrodynamics" |
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