Winners of the Viadrina Prize

Reports:

• With humour across the Oder - Steffen Möller honoured with the Viadrina Prize

The 2026 sponsorship award went to the student team of the Unithea theatre festival project:

• "We are always on the edge of the impossible" - Unithea receives sponsorship award

Reports

• "Optimism is a must" - Ewa Łabno-Falęcka receives 24th Viadrina Prize
• "There must be no standstill in German-Polish relations!" - Dr Ewa Łabno-Falęcka awarded the 24th Viadrina Prize

The student team Moot Court in Criminal Law was awarded the 2025 Sponsorship Award

• "This experience will stay with us beyond our time at the Moot Court"

Reports

• "If only there were more such mediators who leave the ivory tower" - Prof. Dr Klaus Ziemer receives 23rd Viadrina Award (including picture gallery)
• "Enthusiasm and curiosity have waned on both sides" - Panel discussion on German-Polish relations at the Viadrina Prize ceremony

The 2024 sponsorship award was awarded to the student initiative Students for Climate Justice

• Award-winning commitment to greater climate justice - Students for Climate Justice receive sponsorship award

Reports:

• „You are competition for the populist ideologues“ – Viadrina Prize for Prof. Dr habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz (including picture gallery)
• Recording of the award ceremony from 1 June 2023
• Is the Germany-Poland tandem failing? – Panel discussion with the prize winner

The 2023 sponsorship award went to the project:

• "Literature translation in the German-Polish cultural dialogue"

Reports:

• On heavy weapons, quick decisions and the duties of Viadrina students– Viadrina Prize winner Róża Thun gives a rousing speech on Europe (including picture gallery)
• Recording of the award ceremony from 13 October 2022

The 2022 sponsorship award went to:

• Children and youth project „Weimarer Dreieckchen“

Reports:

• Plädoyers für ein partizipatives Europa - Städtepartnerschaft Danzig – Bremen erhält 20. Viadrina-Preis (mit Bildergalerie)
• Recording of the award ceremony on 5 October 2021

The 2021 sponsorship award went to:

• Universitätsorchester Viaphoniker e.V.

Reports:

• „Silence was never her thing“ – Director Agnieszka Holland accepts 19th Viadrina Prize
• Picture gallery from the award ceremony
• Video of the award ceremony for Agnieszka Holland
• „Ich will an Hirnen und Herzen kratzen“ – ein Tag mit Viadrina-Preisträgerin Agnieszka Holland in Frankfurt (Oder)

The 2019 sponsorship award went to:

• Student legal counselling at the Collegium Polonicum

Reports:

• „Für eine Europäisierung von unten und nicht von oben!“ – Gemeinsame Deutsch-Polnische Schulbuchkommission mit Viadrina-Preis geehrt
• Video of the award ceremony

The 2017 sponsorship award went to:

• Initiative Deutschunterricht für AsylbewerberInnen (IDA)

Reports:

• „Anna Wolff-Powęska shows strength and courage to intervene in public debates“ (with picture gallery)
• Video of the award ceremony for Prof Dr Anna Wolff-Powęska

The 2016 Förderpreis went to:

• Student art festival „ART an der Grenze“

Report:

• Wolfgang Templin honoured with Viadrina Prize (with picture gallery)

The 2015 sponsorship award went to:

• „Deutsch-Polnische Seniorenakademie Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice“

Report:

• Picture gallery of the event

The 2014 sponsorship award went to:

• „Studierendenmeile e. V.“

Report:

• Video excerpt rbb: Presentation of the Viadrina Prize and patronage of the ZIP

The 2013 sponsorship award went to:

• „Nowa Amerika“ - a cross-border German-Polish project

The 2012 sponsorship award went to:

• „Institut für angewandte Geschichte - Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft im Dialog e.V.“ - a research institute founded by Viadrina students

The 2010 Förderpreis went to:

• „Viamusical“ – a student university musical

The 2009 sponsorship award went to:

• „UNITHEA“ – a student theatre project

The 2008 sponsorship prize went to:

• „polenplus“ (German-Polish magazine)

The 2007 sponsorship award went to:

• „Kunstgriff“ – a student initiative

The 2006 Förderpreis went to:

• „verbuendungshaus fforst“ – an intercultural student housing project

The Förderpreis 2005 went to:

• Sarina Schewczyk – student

Two sponsorship awards in 2004 went to:

• „Law Moot Court“ – a student initiative
• „Schwäbisch Hall-Zamość“ – a city partnership

Two sponsorship awards in 2002 went to:

• „Viadrin@lumni“ – the alumni network
• „Horizont“ – a project for the integration of foreign students

The 2001 sponsorship award went to:

• „Literaria“ – a student literature project

The Förderpreis 2000 went to:

• „Spotkanie“ and „Interstudis“ – two student initiatives