Scientific awards

The Bayer Climate Award

The Bayer Climate Award, the first international prize of its kind, is presented to honor groundbreaking contributions to fundamental research in climate science. It is an integral element of the Bayer Climate Program.

The Group-wide climate protection initiative launched in 2007 is aimed at driving new solutions for climate protection and addressing climate change. Bayer also strives to promote social policy dialogue about climate change and create incentives for scientific innovations in this area outside the company as well.

The Bayer Climate Award carries a sum of EUR 50,000 and is presented at two-year intervals from 2008.

The award honors fundamental research in scientific and technical disciplines that contributes to explaining and limiting climate change, as well as coping with its effects, through pioneering solutions.

The current focus is on:

Energy and Environmental Sciences
Material Sciences and Process Engineering
Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences, and Microbiology
Polar, Sea and Coastal Research, Oceanography
Physical/chemical Atmosphere Research
Geochemistry and Geophysics
Meterology

The winners of the prize

2010	Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Institute for Environmental Physics of Bremen University Press Kit

2009	Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Jochem Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe Press Informationen (PDF 72 KB) Bayer honors climate researcher (3:58 min.)