On Wednesday, November 30, Frankfurt's mayor René Wilke awarded the annual Innovation Awards of the City of Frankfurt (Oder) to three students of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
.With the Innovation Award, the city honors outstanding student theses that provide important impetus for issues of regional development. Endowed is the innovation award with a total of 2,500 euros. This year, the jury - Prof. Dr. Matthias Sohn, Viadrina Professor of Management Accounting, and Torsten Röglin, Managing Director of Stadtwerke Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH - decided to award two first places and one second place.
1st prize - endowed with 1,000 euros each
Dagmara Kornelia Adamus
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for her master thesis entitled "Polish-German Borderland as an Attractive Investment Location? Analysis of Investment Incentives and Determinants of Investment Attractiveness of (East) Brandenburg-Lubuskie Border Region"
Clara Philine Janus
for her master thesis on "Havarie as Border Event - Essayistic Negotiation of the Mediterranean Sea as Border Space in the Film Havarie by Philip Scheffner"
2nd prize - endowed with 500 EUR
Angelika Turecka
for her Master's thesis on "Tax changes in Polish partnerships and their implications for German investors".
Prof. Dr. Eva Kocher, President of the European University Viadrina, said on the occasion of the award ceremony: "We thank the City of Frankfurt for honoring with great continuity outstanding student work dedicated to the region with the Innovation Award. This shows how close the relationship between the city and the university are also in terms of content: Practical questions of coexistence, political, economic and social everyday life in our German-Polish border region regularly find their way into our teaching and research. This is impressively demonstrated by the works awarded this year; they examine both pressing economic and social issues."
Mayor René Wilke said: "For more than 20 years, the Innovation Award has brought together progress, dynamism and development in terms of content. The students awarded this year reflect current socially and politically relevant focus with great practical relevance. The three selected theses underscore the complexity in which our spheres of life are interwoven. The workings of science, politics and economics, society, art and culture are seen as the interdisciplinary conglomerate that they are."