IANUS Awards 2025
Submissions can include qualification works (particularly studies/project work, bachelor’s, master’s theses, publications, or dissertations) that have been completed since August 2023 and address questions relevant to IANUS. The submission deadline is July 31, 2025.
IANUS award
The award (1,000 euros) honours excellent theses from all disciplines at TU Darmstadt which are related to IANUS, i.e. which deal with questions of scientific and technical peace and conflict research, and often consider them in an interdisciplinary way, including the social sciences and humanities.
The 2024 award ceremony honoured four papers.
The award will be granted again in 2025 and qualification papers (in particular study/project, bachelor's, master's theses, publications or dissertations) that have been completed since August 2023 and deal with IANUS-relevant issues can be submitted until 31 July 2025.
We ask for nominations, including self-nominations, under the subject “IANUS Award” to reuter@peasec.tu-…. Please attach a PDF version of the submitted paper, a justification for the award (usually by the supervisor) and optional attachments (curriculum vitae, expert opinion).
Papers cover a wide range of possible topics.
- Dual Use
- Sustainable development
- Justice
- Value-oriented security research
- The Ambivalence of scientific and technological progress
- International conflicts
- Vulnerability and resilience
- Critical Raw Materials
Members of the IANUS jury are Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer (International Politics), Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter (Science and Technology for Peace and Security), and Prof. Dr. Malte Göttsche (Peace Research in Natural Sciences).
Further information on the call for proposals as well as examples of topics