The bdla Baden-Württemberg Regional Association e.V. regularly recognises outstanding Bachelor’s theses at the University of Applied Sciences for Business and the Environment (HfWU), Nürtingen-Geislingen, as part of its efforts to promote young talent.
At the graduation ceremony for planning degree programmes on 17 October 2025, students from the Bachelor’s programmes in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation, and Urban Planning, together with those from the Master’s programmes in Environmental Protection, Sustainable Urban and Regional Development and Urban-Landscape Transformation were honoured and bid farewell in the main hall of the K3N Stadthalle in Nürtingen.
Following the welcoming remarks by the Rector, Prof. Dr Andreas Frey, and the address by the Vice-Dean, Prof. Dr Henning Krug, the awards for outstanding achievements were presented.
The Young Talent Award from the Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla), Baden-Württemberg Regional Association, was awarded in the summer term of 2025 to Ms Clara Johanna Jahn for the best Bachelor’s thesis and the best overall mark, in recognition of her thesis entitled “Rossmarkt in Kirchheim unter Teck”.
Birke Hörner, spokesperson for training at bdla Baden-Württemberg, and Max Hansen, both members of the Executive Board, conveyed the Board’s congratulations and presented the certificate along with a voucher for the prize, worth 250 euros. In addition to the offer of a one-year junior taster membership free of charge, the “starter pack” for professional life includes the latest bdla publications on topical issues, “Essentials of Climate Adaptation”, “Climate Adaptation in Urban Planning”, ‘The Earth’s Garden’, as well as documentation on the current German Landscape Architecture Prize 2025 and the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Prizes for 2022 and 2024.
Further prizes were awarded: the Faculty Prize, the prize from the Bausparkasse Schwäbisch-Hall Foundation, the Environmental Prize from ZinCo GmbH, the prize from the Baden-Württemberg Association for Garden, Landscape and Sports Ground Construction (Verband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau Baden-Württemberg e.V.), and the prize from the Stuttgart Region Association (Verband Region Stuttgart).
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