Young talents can now apply for the DMEA sparks Award 2025. This award recognises outstanding theses in the Bachelor's and Master's categories as well as the Audience Award and honours them with prize money of up to 2,500 euros.

The DMEA sparks Award 2025 offers students and graduates from the fields of computer science, medicine, healthcare management and related disciplines the opportunity to present their theses on the digitalisation of healthcare.

Who can apply?

Anyone whose thesis contributes to the further development of digital processes in the healthcare sector can apply. The authors of the five best Bachelor's and Master's theses will present their work in a video in advance on the DMEA YouTube channel and in a live pitch in front of an audience at the DMEA. The three winners in each category will then be chosen.

Further information on the application and the conditions of participation can be found on the DMEA website.

A look back: the award winners from 2024

DMEA 2024 honoured theses on machine learning, artificial intelligence in diagnostics and open data for medical professionals. You can read the interviews with the winners on the DMEA news blog.

The winners of the DMEA Young Talent Award 2024. Image: Messe Berlin

About DMEA

DMEA is Europe's leading event for digital health, which gathers decision-makers from all areas of the healthcare sector, including IT specialists, physicians, hospital and nursing care executives as well as experts from politics, science and research.

18,600 participants attended DMEA 2024, around 800 exhibitors presented their innovative solutions and over 350 speakers took to the DMEA stages.

In 2023, around 16,200 participants, 735 exhibitors and more than 300 national and international speakers took part at the DMEA.

The DMEA is organized by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e.V. (Federal Association for Health IT) and is hosted by Messe Berlin GmbH. It is organized in cooperation with the industry associations GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology) e.V., BVMI (Professional Association of Medical Informatics) e.V. and with the content-related participation of KH-IT (Federal Association of Hospital IT Managers) e.V. and CIO-UK (Chief Information Officers - University Hospitals).

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You can watch videos of DMEA on the YouTube channel of DMEA.

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Students and graduates can now apply for the DMEA sparks Award. The closing date for applications is 15 January 2025.