Professor Gero Decher was awarded the Emilia Valori Prize 2009  attributed by the French Sciences Academie (Académie des sciences) and the prize Rhodia 2010, for his research on the layer by layer technique. He also received the 1999 prize of the French polymer group for his work on the "layer-by-layer deposition" technique. Doctor Martin Brinkmann was awarded the GFP/SFP 2010 prize by the French Polymer Society GFP (a joint award by the Groupe Français d'études et d'applications des Polymères and the French Physical Society ( SFP, Société Française de Physique) for his work on conjugated polymers. Professor Nicolas Giuseppone (2010), Doctor Jean-François Lutz (2010) and Doctor Wiebke Drenckhan (2012) were laureates of the European Research Council Starting Grant, attributed by the European Research Council. Since 2012, the "Charles Sadron Institute Conference Series" were created at the initiative of Jean-Michel Guenet, director of the institute. The first conference supported by the European Research Council took place in November 2012 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. 26 invited lectures were presented by a chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn) and European Research Council laureates (Starting and Advanced grants).