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Tu, 19. November 2024 → Beaming faces and a great atmosphere on Saturday at the graduation ceremony at Aalen University: The more than 100 participants in this event, which takes place annually at Aalen University, are happy with the bachelor and master alumni about the successful completion of their optometry degrees. The 17 Karl Amon Optometry Award was also presented as part of these celebrations. This year the prize, worth a total of 2,000 Euros, Teresa Köberle and Peter Steckbauer. There is a good reason for this: the founder of the prize, Karl Amon, stated in his laudatory speech that shortsightedness (myopia) always exists. It is predicted that half of the world's population will be affected by 2050.

Tu, 21. November 2023 → For the 16th time in a row, the Karl Amon Optometry Award was presented at Aalen University on Nov. 18, 2023. This prize, worth a total of €2,000, will be shared between the two winners Torsten Dautzenberg and Kai Jaeger. The two successful and practice-experienced graduates of the part-time master's degree program in Vision Science and Business (Optometry) received this award at the Aalen University graduation ceremony for outstanding scientific work with high practical and scientific benefit in the field of optometry.

We, 16. November 2022 → For the 15th time in a row, the Karl Amon Optometry Award, endowed with €2,000, was presented at Aalen University. In this year the coveted price goes to Jessica Gruhl and Maximilian Aricochi. The two best-in-class 2022 of the extra occupational master program Vision Science and Business (Optometry) received the award for outstanding scientific work with high practical benefit for the optical industry as part of the anniversary event: 40 years of diploma or bachelor program Optometry and 20 years of the master program Vision Science and Business (Optometry) and the Symposium “Future of Optometry” on the 11th of November 2022