2023

• FOKUS researchers received the Best Paper Award at the 15th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools) in Spain for their paper “Spatio-temporal Speed Metrics for Traffic State Estimation on Complex Urban Roads”.
• The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has honored FOKUS researchers with the CTA Technology Achievement Award for their outstanding contributions to the CTA WAVE Streaming Media Test Suite.
• The German DVB-I pilot project won the “IBC 2023 Special Award for Innovation” at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC). In the project, the DVB-I standard is being further developed to facilitate the continuous use of linear TV programs.

2022

• The FAME Video Development Blog post "Common pitfalls in MPEG-DASH streaming" by Daniel Silhavy, Stefan Pham and Mariana Avelino wins 3rd place at the ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) Best Video Blog Post Awards in March, 2022
  

2021

• serverside.ai wins "best scale-up project" at the HbbTV Awards, November 24-25, 2021
• Hauswirth, Prof. Dr. Manfred et al: Awarded the Test-of-Time Prize at the IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference for the paper “Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks”, June 18, 2021
  
• Glikman, Dr. Yury: Re-elected as member of the OW2 Board of Directors, March 25, 2021
• Parycek, Prof. Dr. Peter: Part of the Supervisory Board of DigitalService4Germany GmbH, February 12, 2021
• Hauswirth, Prof. Dr. Manfred: Recognition as Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), January 4, 2021

2020

• Klessmann, Dr. Jens: Appointment to the Berlin “State Advisory Council on Digitalization”, December 2, 2020
• Lutz, Otto et al: “Best Paper in Track” at ICIS 2020, Nov. 19, 2020
• Ziesing, Dr. Jan: Election to the deputy board of VSDI e.V., October 29, 2020

2019

• Danh Le-Phuoc, Manfred Hauswirth, u. a.: Runner up for Best Paper at JIST2019 for ”Autonomous RDF Stream Processing RDF IoT Edge Devices”. Hangzhou, China, November 25-27, 2019
  
• Project PlanQK awarded at the “KI-Innovationswettbewerb” of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Engery (BMWi). September 19, 2019
• Stephan Pham: DASH-IF Excellence Award for “Evaluation of shared resource allocation using SAND for ABR streaming” at the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference. Amherest, USA, June 18 - 21, 2019
• Dr. Jürgen Großmann et al: Most Influential Paper Award in the category practical impact at the 12th IEEE International Conference in Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) for “Testing Embedded Real Time Systems with TTCN-3”. Xian, China, April 22-27, 2019
  

2018

• Project MeineReha^® awarded at the “Gründerwettbewerb – Digitale Innovationen” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. August 31, 2018
  
• Rydies wins at DemoDay of Fraunhofer Venture with Fraunhofer FOKUS and their Tool “Stimulate”. July 4, 2018

2017

• Assistr Digital Health and Fraunhofer FOKUS win at Tandem Camp II with their “Incontinence care” solution. October 2017
  
• Project “Band Camp Berlin” wins HbbTV Award at the HbbTV Symposium for the MPAT project created application, October 18, 2017 
  
• FOKUS Annual Report 2016 “Digital (R)Evolution”: ECON Special Award 2017 in the category “image publication” and Nomation for the German Design Award 2018. June / November 2017
  
• Beyer, Marco: Special Award “Best Idea” for the project “Nooz” at FutureLab Hackathon of Media Lab Bayern. Munich, June 12, 2017
  
• Schlingloff, Prof. Dr. Holger: Elected as Chairman of the German Society for the Advancement of Applied Computer Science (GFaI e.V.). Berlin, June 9, 2017
  
• Schieferdecker, Prof. Dr. Ina: Elected as Funding Director of the German Internet Institute. Berlin, May 23, 2017
  
• Project “ENSURE” wins Best Paper Award of ISESS for “Integration of volunteers in disaster management”. Zadar, Croatia, May 12, 2017
  
• Schieferdecker, Prof. Dr. Ina: Appointed as Member of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030. May 8, 2017

2016

• Bassbouss, Louay: Best Paper Award at “NEM Summit 2016” conference for “High Quality 360° Video Rendering and Streaming”. Porto, November 23-24, 2016
• Schieferdecker, Prof. Dr. Ina: Calling into the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). November 10, 2016
• Krauss, Christopher et al.: Nomination as Best Poster Presentation for “Smart-Learning: Time-Dependent Context-Aware Learning Object Recommendations” at 29th AAAI International Flairs Conference. Florida, Mai 2016
• ITEA Projekt DIAMONDS: EUREKA Innovation Award 2016 as well as Project Pitch during “EUREKA Innovation Week”. Stockholm, April 27,  2016
• Krauss, Christopher et al.: Best Research at IARIA conference for “The Smart Learning Approach - A mobile Learning Companion Application”. Venice, April 24-28, 2016
• Glikman, Dr. Yury: Re-election for president of OW2 consortium. Paris, April 1, 2016

2015

• Tcholtchev, Nikolay: Best Paper Presentation Award for his presentation during the “Network Services” session at ICUMT 2015. Brno, October 8, 2015
• Project “Orchestra- SmartOrchestra (stoneOne AG)” wins sponsorship within the technology program “Smart Service World” initiated from German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Berlin, July 21, 2015
• FOKUS Annual Report 2014 “We make cities smart”: Nomination for ECON Award, category “Image Publication”. July 6, 2015
• Project “Bürgerservice 24”: 3rd rank, category “Agilste IT-Architektur”. Zukunftskongress Staat und Verwaltung, Berlin, June 30, 2015
• Glikman PhD, Yury: Elected as president of the OW2 Consortium. Paris, June 11, 2015
• Project CIER: Celtic-Plus-Award, category: “Excellence”. Vienna, April 27, 2015
• Project BaaS: ITEA Exhibition Award. Co-summit of ITEA and ARTEMIS, March 10-11, 2015
• Project EASI-CLOUDS: ITEA Award, category “Business Impact”. Co-summit of ITEA and ARTEMIS, March 10-11, 2015

2013

• Bier, Nanett: 2nd rank at the “Ideen für Europa” – Salon hosted by Microsoft for her Bachelor's thesis: “Facebook-Aktivismus: Chancen und Risiken sozialer online Netzwerke”, November 27, 2013
• Montenegro, Nils: Prize of the “Forum Junge Spitzenforscher” for his Bachelor's thesis “Big Data Analyse am Fallbeispiel der Finanzdaten”, November 27, 2013
• Shahbazi Avarvand, Forooz: Prize of the “Forum Junge Spitzenforscher” for her thesis “Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung von Methoden in Unterräumen für die Reduzierung der Dimension von Big Data”, November 27, 2013
• KATWARN – The municipal warning and information system has been awarded in the competition of the initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas” and Deutsche Bank, October 30, 2013
• Project “STADIWAMI – Standards für Wohnbegleitende Dienstleistungen im Kontext des demografischen Wandels und der Potenziale der Mikrosystemtechnik”: DIN Innovationspreis 2013, April 9, 2013
• Voisard, Prof. Dr. Agnes: Awarding a knight's insignia of the national order of merit, French Embassy, March 5, 2013

• Blind, Prof. Dr. Knut: Rank 28th of the current top 100 researchers, Handelsblatt's ranking of buisness administration, December 2012
• Mangelsdorf, Dr. Axel: 2. IEC-IEEE Challenge award for his paper: The benefits of Standards and Standardization in the German electrical and electronic industry, Co-Author: Knut Blind, Chair of Innovation Economics, Technical University Berlin, May 10, 2012
• Projekt DIAMONDS: ITEA Exhibition Award 2012, Co-summit of ITEA and Artemis, Paris, October 31, 2012
• Projekt MODELISAR: Silver ITEA Achievement Award, Co-summit of ITEA and Artemis, Paris, October 31, 2012
• Projekt P23R - Prozess-Daten-Beschleuniger: Innovationspreis des Deutschen Beamtenbundes, Co-summit of ITEA and Artemis, Paris, October 31, 2012
• Viehmann, Johannes: Best Paper Award of the 10th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), July 16, 2012
• Zeuner, Michelle: First prize GI TAV Diploma and Master Thesis Award in Software Testing 2012, June 6, 2012
• Fraunhofer FOKUS' Spin-off trustedSafe: Best Business Idea Award of the Heidelberger Innovationsforum, April 17, 2012