Each year, graduate students from the four Bachelor's programmes are nominated for the four Minerva Academy Awards. A prize of €1,500 each will be made available for the Award for Fine Art, the Award for Design and the Art Education Prize. Artistic research is rewarded with a research prize of €500.
A number of external experts nominate candidates for these prizes at the final examination. An independent jury determines the prize winner at the graduation show at the end of the academic year. There is no age limit for the prizes. The quality of the work judged by the jury is decisive.