IB Hochschule für Gesundheit und Soziales at the Berlin Science Prize award ceremony

Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner honoured on Monday evening the great societal benefit of the research achievements of Prof. Dr. Dr. Kerem Böge as well as Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou. At the ceremonial award of the Berlin Science Prize, IB Hochschule's President Prof. Dr. Mariam Hartinger was also invited.

What does the prize stand for?

The Berlin Science Prize awards innovative research approaches in a Berlin future field that are of great importance for both the science and business location of Berlin.

Laudation by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Markschies

"Linguistics has been one of the pearls of science for 300 years."

Prof. Alexiadou researches the language of thinking and how language shapes social cohesion. Using the example of the upcoming football EM, hybrid language formations made up of various languages were discussed, such as "gefightet".

The young talent prize went to Prof. Dr. Dr. Kerem Böge in the area of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.

"People with refugee experience experience a sharpening of language," said Böge in his acceptance speech. His merits are the development and evaluation of a culturally sensitive psychotherapy, stigma research on psychotic disorders, and new treatment procedures with low-threshold access to the health system.