Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 (€350,000 Total Award) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 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 on the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité honors researchers, establishments, and early profession researchers across the globe whose work helps to basically advance the standard, transparency, and reproducibility of science and analysis.

The award is introduced in three classes: 

• The Individual Award honors particular person researchers or small groups of collaborating researchers.
• The Institutional Award acknowledges organizations and analysis establishments. 
• The Early Career Award highlights revolutionary venture proposals by researchers firstly of their careers.

Key Focus Areas

The award celebrates contributions that advance:

Reproducibility & Research Quality

• Fostering Research Integrity: Substantial contributions to analysis integrity by way of excellent measures, equivalent to enhancing transparency, selling entry to analysis outcomes (‘Open Science’), and embracing collaborative analysis (‘Team Science’).
• Quality-Improving Interventions: Developing and/or implementing interventions, governance, and insurance policies that improve the standard and reliability of analysis.
• Innovative Approaches to Research Integrity: Developing revolutionary approaches that foster analysis on analysis integrity, conducting and designing novel measures or packages to forestall misconduct, and safeguarding validity and reliability in science and analysis.
• Exceptional Integrity: Demonstrating distinctive integrity when going through troublesome circumstances and/or conflicts of curiosity.
• Long-Term Archiving: Guaranteeing the lengthy-time period archiving of knowledge and publications by way of intergenerational archives.
• Addressing Systemic Factors: Identifying and addressing systemic elements that foster analysis integrity and extra accountable analysis.
• Replications:  Performing or supporting research on the reproducibility of scientific outcomes.
• Teaching Good Research Practice: Making a major contribution to the educating of excellent analysis observe.

MetaScience

• Research on Research to establish alternatives for enhancing analysis observe, producing proof for potential interventions, and creating metrics and insurance policies that incentivize the adoption of very best analysis practices.

Research Assessment and Incentives

• Identifying analysis requirements and incentives that straight or not directly constrain the standard of analysis (e.g. reliance on purely quantitative output measures) and designing extra satisfactory means to evaluate the standard of analysis and researchers.

Accessibility and Inclusion

• Increasing Diversity in Research: Making a major contribution to rising the variety of analysis by contemplating elements equivalent to gender, race/ethnicity, geography, profession stage, and so forth.

Awards

• Individual Award: The laureate will likely be awarded €150,000.
• Institutional Award: The award-successful group or establishment will obtain €100,000.
• Early Career Award: The winner will obtain an award of €100,000.

Eligibility

• Open to researchers and establishments from any part of the world. Applicants don’t have to be affiliated with a German establishment or be working in partnership with Berlin- or German-based establishments or researchers.
• Applicants can apply as people or as part of a crew and/or be nominated in a number of classes, i.e. one particular person can put themselves ahead for the ECR Award and in addition be a member of a crew making use of/nominated for the Organization Award.

Application

Submit your entry till 10pm UTC on April 30, 2025. Laureates and finalists will likely be introduced in November 2025. 

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For extra info, go to Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research.