2023
Ivana Jaric - Prix Jean-Pierre Miéville
Jakob Winter - research prize International Society for Livestock Husbandry (IGN)
2022
Annika Bremhorst - Albert-Heim Stiftung Anerkennungspreis
Jakob Winter - Prix Jean-Pierre Miéville
Laura Candelotto – Best Poster Prize, 55th Congress of International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)
2021
Bernhard Voelkl - 3RCC Award 2021, Swiss 3R Competence Centre
Lea Roch - Jean-Pierre Miéville Prize 2021, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern
2019
Hanno Würbel - SGV Award "Reduction"
Christina Rufener - IGN-Forschungspreis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung
Bernhard Voelkl - 3Rs Prize by the N3CRs
2018
Yamenah Gómez - IGN-Forschungspreis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung (IGN)
Sara Hintze - Fakultätspreis
Christina Rufener - Best Poster Prize 50. International Congress on Apllied Ethology, Freiburg
2017
Hanno Würbel - Charles River-CAAT Excellence in Refinement
Jeremy Bailoo - Prix Jean-Pierre Miéville
Sara Hintze - Professor Dr. Walther Bolz-Preis, IGN-Forschungspreis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung (IGN)
2016
Michael Toscano - Poultry Welfare Research Award, Poultry Science Association (PSA)
Anja Jordan - Alumni-Masterpreis
2015
Hanno Würbel - ISAE Creativity Award, International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)
Sara Hintze - ‘Best Student Presentation Award’, 11th International Equitation Science Conference, International Society of Equitation Science (ISES), Vancouver, Canada
“When I look into your eyes… What eye wrinkles in horses tell us about their emotional state”
Ariane Stratmann - IGN-Forschungspreis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung (IGN)
Eimear Murphy - IGN-Forschungspreis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung (IGN)
2014
Nadine Ringgenberg - Preis Jean-Pierre Miéville, Veterinärmedizinische Fakultät, Universität Bern
Sara Hintze - 1st Prize Poster, 10th International Equitation Science Conference, International Society of Equitation Science (ISES), Bredsted, Denmark
“Should I stay or should I go? Horses can be trained more easily on a Go/No-go paradigm than on an Active Choice paradigm.”
Ariane Stratmann - 1st Prize Poster, 48th International Congress, International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
“Ramps in aviaries reduce falls and fractured keel bones in commercial laying hens.”
2013
Nadine Ringgenberg - 1st Prize Poster, 45. Internationale Tagung für Angewandte Ethologie, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
„The relative preference of laying hens for nest size and slope of nest floor”
Sara Hintze - 2nd Prize Poster, 45. Internationale Tagung für Angewandte Ethologie, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
“Who mounts whom and why? Characteristics, causes and consequences of mounting behaviour in finishing pigs.”
2012
Hanno Würbel - ERC Advanced Grant (2013-2018), European Research Council (ERC)