The prize was awarded for outstanding dissertation projects with the potential to reach target groups outside the scientific community and to achieve social, cultural or economic added value.

Christoph Burger - Bullying and teacher interventions
Constanze Englisch - Heat below the City – Temperature as a key driver in urban groundwater ecosystems
Barbara Heinisch - Specialised Translation at the Interface between Technology, Usability and Relevance
Stefanie Hirsch - Targeting the negative health-related impact of ethnic discrimination
Clara Holzinger - Street-level bureaucracies in the context of migration-related heterolingualism.
Harald Pasch - Interpreting as cooperative action in Intervention Centers Against Violence in Austria
Stephanie Rieder-Zagkla - Talking about sexuality in marriage court records between 1783 and 1938
Andreas Wasilewicz - Natural products against acute respiratory infections