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Awards

CCCA Poster Prizes

During the Klimatag, participants have the opportunity to rate the posters on display. Based on this, a jury awards the poster prize.

The poster must meet the following criteria:

  • The poster is visually appealing and its message is clearly understandable.
  • The content of the poster is of high scientific quality and innovative.
  • The content of the poster has high scientific and societal relevance.

The jury will reassess the highest-rated posters as selected by the audience and award prizes to the 3 posters that best meet the criteria. Prizes will only be awarded to posters whose authors are represented at the award ceremony by at least one person. 

The CCCA Poster Prizes will be presented on Fri., 25.04. between 11:00 – 12:15 in Session V.

The following posters were selected for the top 3 places:

1st place P11 Barbara Steinbrunner (TUW): Soil-Walks: Bewusstsein für Flächeninanspruchnahme, Versiegelung und Innenentwicklung

2nd place P09 Marianne Bügelmayer-Blaschek (AIT): KNOWING how to deal with climate change - Storytelling für mehr Bewusstsein und Empowerment

3rd place P04 Katharina Pöll (Uni Innsbruck): If you saw a heat wave at the beach, would you wave back? Estimating impacts of climate change on tourism demand in the Mediterranean

The following people are part of the Poster Jury:

  • Ina Meyer (WIFO)

  • Lorenzo Rieg (Universität Innsbruck)

  • Simon Tschannett (weatherpark & CCCA Board)

CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize

The CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize for 2025 was awarded to two colleagues, as both submissions were of outstanding quality: 

  • V08 Monica Barman (Uni Salzburg, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops): Effects of drought stress on male and female flowers and pollinator visits in Styrian oil pumpkin plants (presentation in English) - Winner of the CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize
  • V09 Theresa Boiger (Uni Graz): Optimizing the Utilization of Harvested Wood Products for Maximum Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in a Bioeconomy: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach - Winner of the CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize

At the 25th Klimatag, the annual CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize will also be presented. With this prize, CCCA aims to put the spotlight on and recognise the scientific achievements of young researchers. Submissions are made via a scientific publication, which is assessed by renowned scientists. Every person who submits will receive written feedback on their submitted paper. The highest-rated paper will be awarded a prize of €1,000 at the Klimatag and presented in a talk in a scientific session. The prize will only be awarded to the author who is present at the award ceremony, or to a representative. 

The CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize will be presented on Thu., 24.04. as part of Session II between 14:30 – 16:00. This year there are again 2 winners owing to the outstanding quality of the submissions.

After successfully completing the review process, the aim is to give all other submitted scientific publications a presence at the Klimatag in the form of poster presentations during the lunch and coffee breaks.

Criteria for the CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize

  • The thematic context and the relevance of the contribution to the current debate on climate change beyond the boundaries of one's own scientific discipline must be clearly presented.
  • The work should make clear why it is innovative or makes an innovative contribution to the climate change debate.
  • The research question and findings of the paper must be presented in a way that is accessible to a general audience.
  • The work must be methodologically sound.
  • The work must demonstrate familiarity with the relevant literature.
  • Figures and tables must be informative and easy to read.
  • The contribution may be written in English or German.

 

Requirements for participation

  • Timely submission of a scientific paper for the CCCA Early Career Researcher Prize (submission deadline: Friday, 25 October 2024, 23:00).
  • The submitted paper has either already been published in a recognised scientific journal or accepted for publication (with minor or major revisions) (in 2023 or 2024). In any case, the relevant journal must be specified and the "Editorial Decision Email" from the respective journal must be included.
  • The person submitting must be the sole or first author and must have largely conceived, analysed, and written the work themselves. In cases of co-authorship, the submission must specify how the preparation of the work was divided amongst the co-authors (at least 50% of the text written by the submitting author themselves).
  • Academic age of the author: max. 5 years after highest academic degree (excluding maternity leave and parental leave periods).