1996 City of Munich Cultural Prize of Honour 1999 CICERO speaker price award 1999 German-British Forum Award for outstanding service to German-British relations (together with Anthony Giddens)[13] 2004 Award of DGS for outstanding achievements in the field of public achievement in sociology 2005 Schader Prize, the most prestigious award for social scientists in Germany 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to Future Research of the International Sociological Association[14] In 2013 he received an ERC advanced grant to carry out the Cosmo-Climate Research Project (Methodological Cosmopolitanism: In the Laboratory of Climate Change), with David Tyfield and Anders Blok amongst others. Honorary doctorates (8): University of Jyväskylä, Finland (1996), University of Macerata,Italy (2006), University of Madrid (UNED), Spain (2007), Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2010), University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2011), Free University of Varna, Bulgaria (2011), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013), St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria (2013).[15]