Authors may submit a maximum of two works which were published in a German-language medium in Switzerland, Austria or Germany in 2022, 2023. Besides the investigation achievement circumscribed above, the decisive factor is an easily comprehensible and professional presentation of the issue. Besides the works that have already been published, the jury will also take into consideration the submitted investigation concept for a future publication (cf. also under "Applications").

The Peter Hans Hofschneider Investigation Award for Scientific and Medical Journalism is open exclusively to natural persons. They can apply individually or as a research team of a maximum of four persons. Stiftung Experimentelle Biomedizin does not support legal entities.

The Peter Hans Hofschneider Investigation Award for Scientific and Medical Journalism is worth CHF 20,000, which is paid in the form of a grant earmarked for an investigation project (including personal fee, as well as travel and material costs). The award of this prize is intended to provide winners with an opportunity to realise extensive investigation projects which could not be realised, or only realised with difficulty, in the generally customary time and cost frame of a newspaper or magazine or of a freelance journalist.

Applications may be submitted until 31 December 2023.

Applications must include the following:

• short curriculum vitae in PDF
• 1 - 2 papers published in 2022 or 2023 in a German-language medium in Switzerland, Austria or Germany, indicating the title of the newspaper/magazine, the issue number and the date of publication
  
  
  • articles from print media: colour scan of an original copy of the relevant excerpt from the newspaper/magazine in PDF
  
  
  • articles from electronic media: PDF of the publication including URL
• brief description of the research background of the published article(s), including comments on the relevance of the topic etc., in PDF (maximum 700 characters)
• research outline and description of the research project to be realised with the support of the research grant in PDF (maximum 10'000 characters)
  
• tabular time schedule for the future research project in PDF
• tabular cost plan for the future research project in PDF

Only complete applications that meet the requirements will be considered.

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 December 2023.

• Volker Stollorz (long-standing author of Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung/former board member of Wissenschaftspressekonferenz).
• Prof. Dr. Michael Stürzl (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen).
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Werner (ETH Zurich).
• Prof. Holger Wormer (Chair of Scientific Journalism, University of Dortmund).
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Deppert (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf).
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rogler (Universitätsspital Zürich).
• David Hilzendegen (Representative of the data journalism section on the board of the Netzwerk Recherche e.V./data journalist at the SÜDKURIER editorial office in Constance).

In individual cases, the jury may consult further journalists and academics as assessors. The jury will support the award winners in the realisation and timely publication of the investigation project funded by the award together with further mentors of netzwerk recherche.

The Peter Hans Hofschneider Investigation Award for Scientific and Medical Journalism is announced in spring/summer every year. The winners will be announced at an academic symposium of Stiftung Experimentelle Biomedizin or on the occasion of the annual meeting of netzwerk recherche in Hamburg.

The award is advertised by Stiftung Experimentelle Biomedizin (Zurich) in honour of Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Hans Hofschneider (14 February 1929 - 23 July 2004), the former Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, who throughout his life championed not only excellent science but also a critical public debate about possible errors and consequences of scientific research.