Overview

• The Berlin-Pankow primary received the €100,000 main award at a ceremony in Berlin-Adlershof attended by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
• Five schools earned €30,000 each: Schule An der Burgweide (Hamburg), Evangelische Gesamtschule Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck (NRW), Questenberg-Grundschule Meißen (Saxony), Jenaplanschule Weimar (Thuringia) and the German International School Tbilisi.
• The jury praised learning houses with early-opening ateliers, self-paced work and targeted input in subject rooms, plus pupil roles such as “Kinderhausmeister,” a student parliament and a student-run play lending system.
• The multi-stage process drew more than 100 applicants and included interviews, two-day jury hospitations and a 15-school final round.
• Steinmeier called for fairer educational opportunities and stricter handling of social media in schools, and organizers opened applications for the next prize cycle with a Jan. 31 deadline.