Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 (€350,000 Total Award) Deadline: 30 April, 2025

Applications are open for the Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025. The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité honors researchers, institutions, and early career researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science and research.

The award is presented in three categories: 

• The Individual Award honors individual researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers.
• The Institutional Award recognizes organizations and research institutions. 
• The Early Career Award highlights innovative project proposals by researchers at the beginning of their careers.

Key Focus Areas

The award celebrates contributions that advance:

Reproducibility & Research Quality

• Fostering Research Integrity: Substantial contributions to research integrity through outstanding measures, such as enhancing transparency, promoting access to research results (‘Open Science’), and embracing collaborative research (‘Team Science’).
• Quality-Improving Interventions: Developing and/or implementing interventions, governance, and policies that enhance the quality and reliability of research.
• Innovative Approaches to Research Integrity: Developing innovative approaches that foster research on research integrity, conducting and designing novel measures or programs to prevent misconduct, and safeguarding validity and reliability in science and research.
• Exceptional Integrity: Demonstrating exceptional integrity when facing difficult circumstances and/or conflicts of interest.
• Long-Term Archiving: Guaranteeing the long-term archiving of data and publications through intergenerational archives.
• Addressing Systemic Factors: Identifying and addressing systemic factors that foster research integrity and more responsible research.
• Replications:  Performing or supporting studies on the reproducibility of scientific results.
• Teaching Good Research Practice: Making a significant contribution to the teaching of good research practice.

MetaScience

• Research on Research to identify opportunities for improving research practice, generating evidence for potential interventions, and developing metrics and policies that incentivize the adoption of best possible research practices.

Research Assessment and Incentives

• Identifying research standards and incentives that directly or indirectly constrain the quality of research (e.g. reliance on purely quantitative output measures) and designing more adequate means to assess the quality of research and researchers.

Accessibility and Inclusion

• Increasing Diversity in Research: Making a significant contribution to increasing the diversity of research by considering aspects such as gender, race/ethnicity, geography, career stage, etc.

Awards

• Individual Award: The laureate will be awarded €150,000.
• Institutional Award: The award-winning organization or institution will receive €100,000.
• Early Career Award: The winner will receive an award of €100,000.

Eligibility

• Open to researchers and institutions from any part of the world. Applicants do not need to be affiliated with a German institution or be working in partnership with Berlin- or German-based institutions or researchers.
• Applicants can apply as individuals or as part of a team and/or be nominated in several categories, i.e. one person can put themselves forward for the ECR Award and also be a member of a team applying/nominated for the Organization Award.

Application

Submit your entry until 10pm UTC on April 30, 2025. Laureates and finalists will be announced in November 2025. 

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For more information, visit Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research.