The Hans Sigrist Foundation at the University of Bern is dedicated to the promotion of scientific and academic research. The Foundation‘s premier annual award is the Hans Sigrist Prize, awarded to an academic researcher who is a groundbreaker in the prize field. A call for proposals goes out each year to all the faculty members of the University of Bern, and after considering the proposals, the board chooses the field for the prize and the chair of the prize search committee for the coming year. The prize search committee then conducts a thorough international search for the prize winner, seeking nominations from experts in the field. The goal of the Hans Sigrist Foundation is to select prize winners who are at a mid-career point, so that the funds from the prize will be used to boost their research and take it to an even higher level.
