Call for applications for DKKV Promotional Award
Young professionals in the field of disaster risk management are particularly important to DKKV and its members. For this reason, the "DKKV Promotional Award" is being announced since 2018. The price is awarded annually including 1.500 € prize money and a certificate as well as the DKKV Young Professional membership for two years.
The prize is awarded for final theses that are related to the topics of national/international disaster prevention and rehabilitation, civil protection, adaptation to climate change or the integration of disaster prevention and adaptation to climate change. In addition, best practice examples that deal with current research results with future perspectives can be submitted. Applicants for the "DKKV Promotional Award" are expected to have graduated in an accredited degree programme. In addition to bachelor and master theses, diploma theses can also be submitted. However, the university degree must not have been awarded more than two years ago.
The grade of the final thesis plays a minor role in the application process.
Sponsors of the DKKV Promotional Award
The DKKV Promotional Award 2020 is supported by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) (German Aerospace Center).
If you are interested in learning more about the German Aerospace Center, please visit their homepage.
Required documents for application
In addition to your thesis and the affidavit, we need a few other documents for your application. These include a curriculum vitae in table form and a summary of your work. Please do not include grades from your studies or grades from your bachelor or master thesis in your CV, as all applicants should have the same chances.
In the summary, please briefly present your research question, central findings and the usability of the results within two pages.
A letter of recommendation from your reviewer is optional.
Please then summarize the documents as PDFs (Times News Roman font size 12, line spacing 1.5) as follows
Document 1: Includes curriculum vitae, max. 2-page summary of the work, affidavit and letter of recommendation (optional) as PDF with the following name: Name_first name_application_promotional award
Document 2: Contains the German or English final thesis as PDF with the following name: Name_first name_final paper_application_promotional award
By submitting your application, you agree to an internal transfer of the work within DKKV.
Please send all necessary documents and possible questions by e-mail to: foerderpreis@dkkv.org
What is resilience?
The word resilience comes from the Latin word "resilio" or "resiliere" and can be translated as "bouncing back" or "bouncing off". Today the term is used in various disciplines and is often used as a synonym for the word resilience.
UNISDR (2017) defines resilience as "The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including [...] the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management".
Resilience thus describes the ability and capacity of a system to maintain vital functions in the event of a disaster, for example, through adaptation, absorption or transformation. Especially with regard to natural disasters or changing climatic conditions, the term resilience is becoming increasingly important.
Evaluation of the work
After the application deadline, all application documents are first checked for completeness. The submitted abstracts are used for the pre-selection of the papers. The best of them will be shortlisted by the jury, which will then jointly evaluate the corresponding final papers.
The jury members of the DKKV Promotional Award are:
- Frank Ehl
- Alexander Rudloff (Vorstand DKKV/GFZ)
- Dr. Kai Schröter (GFZ)
- Prof. Dr. Lothar Schrott (Universität Bonn)
- Martin Zeidler (Vorstand DKKV/THW)
The winner is expected to be announced on the DKKV homepage and on Twitter.
Award ceremony
The award ceremony will take place in an appropriate setting, at the end of 2020.
Travel expenses within Germany will be covered in accordance with the Federal Travel Expenses Act.