The VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) will once again award the well-known Eugen Hartmann Prize in 2026. This award honours special professional achievements and the promotion of vocational training for young people in measurement and automation technology and related technical disciplines.
The prize recognises outstanding scientific, constructive, experimental or technical work that has been published in the professional world or presented at conferences. The aim is to encourage young scientists and engineers to make their results accessible to a broad specialist audience through high-quality publications. The criteria for selecting the winner are originality, theoretical and/or practical treatment of the topic, comprehensibility and form as well as the significance of the work. The Eugen Hartmann Prize 2026 will be presented at a ceremony during AUTOMATION 2026 in Baden-Baden (30 June - 1 July 2026).
Endowment
The award winner will receive €2,000 and free participation in AUTOMATION 2026 in Baden-Baden on 30 June - 1 July 2026 (travel expenses will not be reimbursed).
Application and submissions
The following can be submitted
- Independent scientific-creative work (e.g. publications in journals or at conferences),
- convincing presentations of practical or technical achievements (e.g. constructions, devices, systems),
- summarising presentations of larger subject areas (e.g. book sections, tutorials).
- Texts in German and English are permitted.
Please note: Complete bachelor's, master's, dissertation or habilitation theses and books are not eligible. However, publications resulting from such work may be submitted.
Applications and proposals must be sent by email to gma@vdi.de by 4 January 2026 at the latest and must include
- Reasons for the nomination,
- Curriculum vitae of the candidate,
- Copy of the underlying publication.
Conditions of participation
- Applicants must not be older than 35 at the time of submission.
- Applications can be submitted by the authors or on the suggestion of a third party.
- Works published between 28 December 2022 and 4 January 2026 may be submitted.
- In the case of joint works, the prize will be awarded to the main author.
- The prize can only be awarded once to one person.
