KfW Award 2010 for Policy-relevant Development Research
Promoting the Dialogue Between Science and Practitioners
KfW Development Bank considers itself not only an implementation agency, but also a knowledge bank of German development cooperation. Part of this role is to foster the dialogue and cooperation between academic research and development policy and practice.
To this end, KfW is conferring the new annual KfW Award for policy-relevant development research. The award is assigned in close cooperation with the Development Economics Council of Verein fuer Socialpolitik. Verein fuer Socialpolitik is the most prominent academic association of economics and social sciences in the German-speaking area.
The Award is conferred on research of outstanding academic quality that has, at the same time, practical or political relevance and thus the potential to stimulate better development cooperation. Two categories apply:
- The Young Academics Award, endowed with prize money of up to EUR 5,000 is given to up to three doctoral dissertations submitted in 2009, in universities in German-speaking area.
- The Excellence Award is given to one outstanding publication in a refereed journal, in 2009, by a member of a research institution in the German-speaking area. It comes with prize money of EUR 5,000.
The award is flexible with regards to both topics and approaches. It is open to works from the whole area of development research, comprising disciplines such as geography, economics, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, legal studies and regional studies. Innovative and interdisciplinary research is welcome, as are critical and unorthodox analyses to the extent that they have the potential to contribute to better policy and practice.
Nominations can be submitted by heads of academic chairs and research institutes in the German-speaking area, not later than March 15, 2010.
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