Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies

Awards

Georg-Simmel-Preis

The student conference of the Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies (GSZ) serves as a networking platform for an interdisciplinary exchange
between young academics with an interest in urban research. During the conference all participants have the opportunity to present their thesis and discuss current issues of Urban research.

The best work is awarded with a monetary reward of 250 Euro for the best bachelor thesis and 500 Euro for the best master thesis, subject to the condition that the degree was obtained at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the final examination was passed with a minimum grade of 2.0.

 
 
Every two years, the Georg Simmel Centre for Urban Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin awards the Hartmut Häußermann Prize "Soziale Stadt". The prize is awarded to outstanding monographs that realise interdisciplinary, enlightened and socially oriented urban research. The prize, donated by Dr. Ruth Jacob with support of the Humboldt-Universitäts-Gesellschaft (HUG), is endowed with 3,000 euros and is awarded every two years by the Georg Simmel Centre for Urban Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin.