After a warm keynote speech by Prof Martin Faulstich summarizing the past two weeks of the Green Talents Forum – including the visit to his own institute: CUTEC - and elaborating the necessity of international cooperation, the awards were finally conferred to the participants by Mr Wilfried Kraus, Deputy Director General of the BMBF directorate for Climate, Energy and Sustainability. Representatives of the now official Green Talents’ home countries’ Embassies as well as of the jury and the participating institutions attended the ceremony.