Awards and Acknowledgements
Benedikter was awarded the Dr. Otto Seibert Award for the Advancement of Scientific Publications of the University of Innsbruck 2005, the DAMUS Foundation Research Grant Award 2005-07, the European Foundation Professorship Award 2008 and the Klaus Reichert Award 2012. He was elected Fellow of Georgetown University Washington DC in 2008 and Associate Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Arlington in 2008, elevated to Full Fellow in 2010, and he was awarded 5 major international interdisciplinary Research Grants between 1996 and 2009. In November 2010, the Study Program "Social Banking and Social Finance" of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Plymouth, UK, for which Benedikter served as the Founding External Examiner and Founding Advisor from 2005 until the end of 2010 was awarded the Special Prize of the German Continuing Education Innovation Awards by the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education Bonn. On November 30, 2012, and again on January 26, 2013, Benedikter's commentaries in German newspapers were ranked the No.1 most read internationally and the No.1 most read nationally by the official German journalism statistics webpages.
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