ARBURG Newcomer Awards 2026

On 25 March, the winners of the ARBURG Newcomer Awards 2026 were honoured during a ceremony at the Vocational Training Center at the company’s headquarters in Lossburg. Through this competition, ARBURG supports young MINT talents from partner schools in the Black Forest region, Germany. This year, the prizes went to five winners: two to final-year A-level students at the Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule in Freudenstadt, and three to secondary school pupils at the Falkenrealschule in Freudenstadt and the John-Bühler Realschule in Dornhan. The award-winning projects focused, among other things, on automotive engineering and mechanical and physical VR applications.

Committed pupils

This year, two of the Newcomer Awards went to grammar school pupils Jan Gretscher and Jonas Daniel Birlinger, and three to secondary school pupils Diana Slizkov, Samira Pfaff and Lucas Sagel. The award ceremony took place during an evening event at the ARBURG Vocational Training Center in Lossburg. Parents and teachers were also invited to the prize-giving ceremony. The event began with a tour of the Customer Center and ‘Evolution’, where the company’s history can be experienced first-hand and in a practical way. This was followed at the Vocational Training Center by a presentation of ARBURG’s triple-certified training concept, as well as a concise overview of the company’s training programmes. Short interviews with the award-winning students about their projects provided interesting insights into their work. Afterwards, Stefan Beck, Vice President Global HR at ARBURG, Michael Vieth and Marius Singer presented the prizes and certificates to the winners.

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