The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards different research prizes for top-rank researcher.

With the Humboldt Research Award researchers are granted for their entire achievements whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline.

Excellent scientists of all nationalities who are expected to continue producing outstanding academic achievements in international collaboration are eligible to be nominated for the Max Planck Research Award.

The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award is directed at internationally renowned scientists who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements which will have a seminal influence on their discipline in future beyond their immediate field of work.

Foreign partner organisations of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants Research Awards for top researchers from Germany.

The German Research Association awards prizes for outstanding research achievements.

Der Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize is awarded to young researchers.

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award features outstanding research achievements.

The Communicator Prize – Science Prize of the Stifterverband receive academics who have communicated their research findings to the public with exceptional dedication.

The von Kaven Awards are directed to mathematicians working in the European Community.

The Bernd Rendel Prize is granted to young qualified geoscientists who do not yet hold a doctorate.

The Albert Maucher Award is assigned for geoscientists who get research findings with funds provided by the German Research Association.

The Ursula M. Händel-Prize recognises scientists who have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research.

With the Copernicus Award every two years two researchers are honoured, one in Germany and one in Poland, for outstanding achievements in German-Polish scientific cooperation, in particular for promoting young researchers.

The Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize is given to Japanese and German scientists who serve to promote research and understanding for the respective other country.

The German Academic Exchange Service awards the DAAD-Prize for outstanding achievements to foreign students.

The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations grants annually the Rave Research Award on Foreign Cultural Policy to honour an outstanding thesis or dissertation in the field of foreign cultural policy and to provide an incentive for further research in this field.

The Robert Bosch Foundation honours with the German-French Journalism Prize high quality journalism and especially valuable contributions by German and French journalists in the areas of radio, television, print media, and the internet.

The Prix de l'Académie de Berlin is awarded yearly to people or projects that, in a special way, have contributed to the enlivening and deepening of the cultural relationships between Germans and French.