The German Simulation And Gaming Award is presented for outstanding final theses on the subject of simulation games. There is even a special prize for dissertations and habilitations (a specific German postdoctoral thesis enabling the student to bear the title "professor" and to teach at university) and comparable post-doctoral theses. The motivation behind the prize is to promote general access to mainly unpublished work regarding this topic, thereby contributing to the further development of this method. The German Simulation and Gaming Award is presented every two years by the Center for Management Simulation in cooperation with the German speaking S&G Association SAGSAGA.