ELLS Prize for Excellent Master Theses
donated by Prof.Dr. Prof.h.c. Dr.h.c. Klaus Macharzina, former president of the University of Hohenheim
The ELLS Prize honours excellent Master theses in the area of life sciences written in English language. Eligible are students of ELLS universities who actively participated in ELLS study exchange programmes. Students of the University of Hohenheim must have acquired 18 ECTS of their MSc programme at other ELLS universities. Students of other ELLS universities must have acquired 18 ECTS of their MSc programme at the University of Hohenheim. Students of the ELLS Double Degree Programmes EnvEuro and EUR-Organic choosing University of Hohenheim as home or host university are also eligible for the ELLS Prize.
All representatives of preliminarily or finally approved ELLS subject areas have the right for nominations. Deadline for submission of nominations is 31 August of each calendar year for theses that have been completed during the previous year.
A nomination has to include the following documents:
- Complete MSc thesis preferably in electronic form
- Nomination letter by an ELLS Subject Area representative
- Short CV
- Official transcript of records
- Two recommendation letters (supervisor and external reviewer of another ELLS university)
All documents should be submitted in English. The ELLS Task Force reviews the nominations and recommends the recipients.
The final decision on the recipients and the amount of the individual prizes is taken by the rector of the University of Hohenheim. The total prize amount of 5.000 € p.a. can be divided among up to 5 winners. The award ceremony is held at the annual ELLS Scientific Student Conference.
The Master thesis with the enclosures has to be submitted to:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, University of Hohenheim
Email: a.pyka@uni-hohenheim.de
Please send an electronic copy of your application documents to gabriele.klumpp@uni-hohenheim.de
We recommend that supervisor and external examiner use the "Thesis Evaluation Form" compiled by the quality assurance team for rating of the MSc thesis.