Applications for the 2025 Mulert Award are now open. Please apply here via a quick and short online form. Application deadline is Sunday, February 23, 2025. The winner of the award will be announced during a festive award ceremony at the association’s Spring Ball on April 5, 2025 in Munich.

Annual Award Information
The Jürgen Mulert Award for Mutual Understanding (short: Mulert Award) is granted once a year by the German Fulbright Alumni Association to an outstanding former participant of the worldwide Fulbright program. Applicants and awardees include distinct founders, researchers, artists, professionals and/or volunteers across disciplines, whose work and projects reflect and advance discourse and peace through mutual understanding.
Applicants and their projects may be professional or volunteer, and may have an artistic, social, economic or similar character. We particularly encourage and support applications of projects with a strong focus on promoting mutual understanding. Select awardees and their exceptional projects are highlighted under Latest Updates on the bottom of this page.
The prize package for the Mulert Award winner includes:
- Recognition and award reception during a festive ceremony at the association’s Spring Ball on April 5, 2025 in Munich, as a stage for the winner to personally present their project
- Project summary and biography in the 2025 issue of the annual member’s magazine FRANKly, as well as on the association’s website and on social media
- 1,000 EUR monetary support for the awarded project
- Networking opportunities within the Fulbright Alumni community, as well as personalized coaching by one of our board members
- Full travel support to the award ceremony (within Europe)
The call for application is released annually via our member newsletter and is published under the news section on our website.
Founder of the Fulbright Alumni Association –
The Life of Juergen Mulert
Since 2010, the German Fulbright Alumni Association has granted the Mulert Award in memory of the association’s initiator and founder, Dr. Jürgen Mulert (1938-2008).
After half a year of planning and preparation, the Association was founded in Frankfurt am Main on January 24, 1986. Countless returnees from prior years were contacted, and Jürgen Mulert and fiften others were the inaugural members.
Frankfurt was chosen as the association’s home for several reasons. It is the geographical center of Germany, many committed Fulbrighters were gathered there, and last but not least, a (Fulbright-) law office there supported the Association in notarial matters. One year later, Jürgen Mulert moved to Frankfurt to work at the city’s main university.
New Frontiers
In addition to those within the Associations he founded, he has held many voluntary positions. He was lay judge at the Administrative Court in Stuttgart from 1975 to 1980, lay judge at the Administrative Court in Weimar from 1997, and in various committees of the Chamber of Commerce. Law, principally the law of the Roman Empire, was his passion. He revered the Humanists and wrote these few lines called the THE DIOGENES DECLARATION: Do it out of general esteem for Mankind.
Talents and Passions
He spoke English and French fluently, revered Jacques Rousseau, Charles Dickens, Maria Callas and the Beatles.
Italy was the country which most attracted him, and he decided to hike from Erfurt to Rome over two weeks every summer. For each successive year, he would continue the hike where he left it the year before.
Latest Updates on the Award
- Kiril Pavel Denisov wins Mulert Award 2024 for his work as ambassador for “Schalom und Salam” - In memory of our association’s founder Dr. Jürgen Mulert, we are excited to award the Mulert Award 2024 to Kiril Pavel Denisov, 2019 Fulbright Diversity Program Alumnus from Heidelberg. Kiril was honored with the Mulert Award for his long-standing dedication to fostering mutual understanding as an ambassador for “Schalom und Salam”, an educational and encounter …
- Mersedeh Ghazaei wins Mulert Award 2023 with her exhibition “WIR SIND HANAU“ in Stuttgart - We are excited and honored to award this year’s Mulert Award to Mersedeh Ghazaei, 2022 Fulbright Diversity Program Alumna from Stuttgart, for her exceptional “WIR SIND HANAU” exhibition and for her tireless work as a voluntary human rights activist. In the following, Mersedeh describes the shocking right-wing attack in Hanau in 2020 and her efforts …
- Dr. John Ashley Null wins Mulert Award 2022 with “Emotional Wellness training program” from Berlin - The Emotional Wellness training program for Hertha Berlin’s U17 team is based on helping the young men build healthy relationships through developing the key skills of mutual understanding. In the process, the youth players are not only learning how to bring out the best in themselves but also how to affirm and encourage the best …
- Vera Kostiuk Busch wins the Special Prize of the Mulert Award 2022 with the “Mother Tongue – Ukrainian” project from Ratingen - The idea of the project “Mother Tongue – Ukrainian” is to help Ukrainian children not to forget their native language and culture. They suffer immensely due to the Russian invasion of their country. At Ukrainian Sunday School they have a central place to interact with others that have experienced a similar, traumatic situation. The German …
- Kimberlyn Bailey wins Mulert Award 2020 with the “STEMM-Project” from Heidelberg - Germany, the US and many other countries have low rates of women in the senior-most career milestones in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) academia. Underrepresentation is undoubtedly an international issue. Nonetheless, there has been relatively little international conversation on the topic. One Fulbright alumna’s ongoing project tries to fix that. The 2020 Mulert award was …
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- Heidrun Bien wins Mulert Award 2019 with the “LGBTQ* Hockey Club” from London - So gay! Who has not heard homophobic remarks used as an insult in sports? Even today, even in Western Europe, many lesbian, gay, bi and trans people have negative experiences in sport—from bullying in school, to coming across anti-LGBTQ* language down the pub, on social media, on or off the pitch. They can feel that …
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- Bridget Kinneary wins Mulert Award 2018 with “Mit Mach Musik” from Berlin - The German Fulbright Alumni Association is proud to announce that this year’s Jürgen Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding is bestowed to the project “Mit Mach Musik”. Bridget Kinneary, Fulbright alumni from the United States now based in Berlin and music director of the project is presented with the Mulert Award for her courage and vision of supporting …
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- Pedro Marcial Cerrato wins Mulert Award 2017 for “CEMPRENDE” in Honduras - Taking Global Exposure to Local Endeavors – “CEMPRENDE” Receives Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding Frankfurt am Main, Germany, March 2017 – The German Fulbright Alumni Association is proud to announce that this year’s Jürgen Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding is bestowed to the project CEMPRENDE in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Pedro Marcial Cerrato, cofounder and chief activist …
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- Robert Lepenies wins Mulert Award 2016 with “Global Colleagues” - Global Colleagues attempts to match multidisciplinary poverty scholars in one-to-one partnerships and encourages participants to collaborate, to share reading recommendations and research insights, information on conferences, workshops as well as to offer introductions to research networks where appropriate. Partnerships are established for the duration of one year, renewable for further one-year periods by mutual consent. …
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- Jörg Wolf wins Mulert Award 2015 with “Atlantic Review” - News Platform “Atlantic Review” Receives Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY, February, 2015 – T Mr. Wolf, a political scientist and former Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, explains his volunteer engagement with the necessity of critical, and balanced perspectives on international relations. Since its launch in 2003 the Atlantic Review has …
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- Oksana Buzhdyga wins Mulert Award 2014 with “Ecological Education in the Ukraine” - The Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding 2014 is bestowed to Oksana Buzhdygan and her project “Environmental Education and Outreach for School-Age Students”. Ms. Buzhdygan receives the award for her enrichment seminars with school teachers in rural areas of her home country, the Ukraine. Ms. Buzhdygan, an eco scientist and assistant professor at Chernivtsi National University, …
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- Sherief El-Helaifi wins Mulert Award 2013 with “Schuelerpaten Berlin” - The German Fulbright Alumni Association is pleased to announce that this year’s Juergen Mulert Memorial Award on Mutual Understanding is bestowed to Sherief El-Helaifi and the project “Schuelerpaten Berlin”. The Mulert Award is given annually to volunteers, artists, professionals, or researchers across disciplines whose work reflects and advances Senator Fulbright’s idea of “waging peace through …
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- Janosch Delcker wins Mulert Award 2012 with “Urban Observations” - Winner of the 2012 “Juergen Mulert Memorial Award on Mutual Understanding” is Mr. Janosch Delcker and his project “Urban Observations”. Mr. Delcker realized a series of short videos in which he portrays artists in New York City and Berlin, respectively. The German Fulbright Alumni Association chose “Urban Observations” for its ability to esthetically foster William Fulbright’s …
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- Daniel Köhler wins Mulert Award 2011 with a “Paper on poverty reduction in the middle east” - Abstract of the Mulert Award paper 2010/2011 In a time of global economic downturn and political crisis in the Middle East the very ideas of development aid and poverty reduction have been seriously challenged. The classical arguments for poverty reduction (to fight violence and terrorism, democracy promotion, moral obligation etc) seem not to be adequate …