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Software Award: Winners 2023 and Call 2024

First Helmholtz Software Award has been presented!

It’s finally done: the winners of the first Helmholtz Software Award have been found. A total of 42 proposals from 16 centres were received. These submissions have been evaluated by international experts. On this basis, a committee consisting of representatives from the participating incubator platforms and the Helmholtz Open Science Office made the final selection of the prize winners for the three categories. The Helmholtz President, Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler, informed the respective centres on July 15, 2024.

And the winners are:

  1. Scientific Originality Prize (Main Award, EUR 5,000):
    CellRank (dynamics from multi-view single-cell data)
    https://helmholtz.software/software/cellrank
    Representative: Philipp Weiler (HMGU)

  2. Sustainability Prize (3,000 EUR):
    ESMValTool (Earth System Model Evaluation Tool)
    https://helmholtz.software/software/earth-system-model-evaluation-tool-esmvaltool
    Representative: Birgit Hassler (DLR)

  3. Newcomer Prize (EUR 2,000):
    openCARP (Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulator)
    https://helmholtz.software/software/opencarp
    Representative: Axel Löwe (KIT)

Congratulations to the developers and software engineers and thank you for these fantastic software applications!

New Call upcoming soon - don’t miss!

The call for 2024 is already prepared. It will be published within the next days with an application deadline end of September. So: Stay tuned!

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Changelog

  • 2024-09-24: completed members of committee