The ifa Research Award on Foreign Cultural Policy is announced annually by the Institut fr Auslandsbeziehungen. Its purpose is 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 laureates in 2015 were Dr Katayon Meier and Dr Dr Annika Hampel.
http://www.ifa.de/en/culture-and-foreign-policy/research-and-dialogue/research-award.html