Award 2025

Nominations

We are delighted to announce that 8 exceptional works have been submitted for the 2025 prize.
We thank all nominees for the commitment.

 

Nominations for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research 2025
 Name Title
Bigler, Patrick; Radulescu, Doina

Environmental, Redistributive and Revenue Effects of Policies Pro-moting Fuel Efficient and Electric Vehicles

Jaiteh, Vanessa Salt: A tribute to Ghana’s fishers
Janzen, Benedikt When Weather Wounds Workers: The Impact of Temperature on Workplace Accidents

Schmid, Jonas

De-centralization and Wind Energy Permitting: An Evaluation of Implementation Effectiveness in Switzerland and Europe
Sonderegger, Gabi Governing agricultural land use in an interconnected world
Suter, Manuel; Essl, Andrea The benefits of less: The effect of sufficiency gain framing on sufficiency behavior
von Brescius, Moritz Revisiting the Charduar Plantation: Local Connections, Imperial Portfolios, and the Global Pathways of Assam Rubber
Zbinden, Eveline Europäischer Hochwasser-Atlas des 14. Jahrhunderts - Räumlich-zeitlich differenzierte Analyse der Hochwasser basierend auf einer interdisziplinären Analyse ausgehend von historischen Quellen

2025 Bernese Award for Environmental Research

The Bernese Award for Environmental Research aims to promote disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in environmental sciences and sustainability at the University of Bern. The prize money in 2025 totals CHF 15,000.
The award, granted every two years, targets researchers whose work makes a relevant contribution to society or lays the foundations for a better understanding of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions.