LifeScienceXplained
For Those Who Can Explain Life Sciences
The LifeScienceXplained award, endowed with 15,000 euros, honors communicators who present complex topics in life sciences in a creative and understandable way. We are looking for contributions that show how modern science communication works – impactful, relevant, and audience‑focused.
Learn more about how you can participate and be inspired by the winners of previous years.
Now it's your turn: Submit your entry by August 12, 2026.
Call to Tender 2026
How to Take Part
- You make complex content from the life sciences easily accessible and easy to understand.
- You use blogs, videos, slams, podcasts, articles, infographics, comics, books or other creative formats.
- You produce content in English or German.
- The date of first publication must be between August 1, 2025 and August 1, 2026.
- Verifiability, comprehensibility and creativity are just as important to you as they are to us and the independent jury.
Then submit your entry by the deadline of August 12, 2026 using the form on this page.
The Best of Five Years LifeScienceXplained
All Finalists
The Jury
The LifeScienceXplained prize is awarded by an independent jury of science and communication professionals. Three criteria are decisive for their decision: verifiability, comprehensibility and creativity.
After careful consideration of all entries, the jury selects three entries from which the winning entrywill be chosen. The name of the winner and the jury's reasoning are announced at the award ceremony each year. The three final entries will be published in advance.
Partner
The Sartorius Prize for New Communication is awarded together with the NDR Non-fiction Book Prize. This award, also endowed with 15,000 euros, recognizes the best non-fiction book of the year published in German.
The joint award ceremony will take place on November 5, 2026 as part of the Göttinger Literaturherbst festival at the Sartorius Campus in Göttingen.
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