The B&C Private Foundation announced a special prize for 2022: the 2022 Houska Prize All Stars. This award recognized the achievements of projects nominated for the Houska Prize between 2005 and 2020 which had gone on to achieve the greatest commercial success.
From a longlist of 28 submissions, a high-calibre expert jury selected the winning projects in a two-stage process. The winners were announced at the Houska Prize award ceremony on 28 April 2022. For the first time there were two first place winners: Stefan Pogatscher from the Montanuniversität Leoben and Clemens Zierhofer from the University of Innsbruck.
| Project lead | Project |
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University of Innsbruck, Department of Mechatronics Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Clemens Zierhofer |
1st Prize: Design and Realisation of a Cochlear Implant System for Fine Structure Simulation |
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Montanuniversität Leoben, Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Stefan Pogatscher |
1st Prize: Manipulation of Aluminium Tempering Kinetics for Traffic and Transport |
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University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Armin Hansel |
3rd Prize: PTR-TOF trace gas analysis |
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Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Technology Univ.-Prof. Jürgen Stampfl, Univ.-Prof. Robert Liska, Univ.-Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov |
Nominated: 3D-Printing – Let there be Light! |
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Marinomed Biotech AG Dr.in Eva Prieschl-Grassauer |
Nominated: Carragelose – Prophylaxis and Treatment of Viral Respiratory Infections |
The 2022 Houska Prize was awarded in the form of a special All Stars prize. Participation was open to all nominated projects submitted by universities and small and medium-sized businesses between 2005 and 2020. The Advisory Committees and Expert Jury nominated five projects, which were in with a chance of winning the All Stars special prize.
List of eligible projects:
projects nominated from 2005 to 2020
Submission and evaluation criteria:
2022 Houska Prize All Stars terms of submission
The 2022 Houska Prize All Stars was endowed with total prize money of EUR 250,000. B&C increased the prize money to EUR 340,000 to provide the two first place winners with vouchers with a value equivalent to EUR 150,000 each.
The prize was awarded in the form of continuing education/research vouchers for training and development spendings, infrastructure investments or research services.
| 1st prize: voucher with a value equivalent to | €150,000 |
| 2nd prize: voucher with a value eqivalent to | €60,000 |
| 3rd prize: voucher with a value equivalent to | €20,000 |
| 2 nominees: vouchers each with a value equivalent to | €10.000 |
