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Researchers at all stages of their careers, as well as institutions across all disciplines, are invited to apply for, or nominate colleagues for the prestigious, international €350,000 Einstein Foundation Award—the only award dedicated to recognizing exceptional contributions to advancing the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of scientific research. The submission deadline is April 30, 2025, with winners to be announced at the end of the year.
https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/
The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research recognizes contributions that improve the reproducibility and validity of science and research in fundamental ways, thereby significantly boosting their benefits to society. Enabling free worldwide access to research (open science), establishing equitable international partnerships (big team science), and advocating for high ethical standards in research are just some of the activities eligible for consideration for this award.
Together with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), the Einstein Foundation Berlin will honor candidates in three categories: The €150,000 Individual Award is presented to researchers or small groups of researchers, while the Institutional Award, worth €100,000, is for organizations and research institutions. The €100,000 Early Career Award recognizes innovative ideas developed by researchers at the beginning of their career.
Award winners in 2024
Last year, Dutch microbiologist and science whistleblower Elisabeth Bik won the Individual Award. Bik has uncovered the use of fraudulent or erroneous data for more than 7,600 scientific papers and has shed light on the practice of selling authorship for fabricated studies. The Institutional Award went to PubPeer, a platform for rapid post-publication review and discussion of published scientific data, which helped identify flaws in the work of eminent scientists, combatted fraud, and fostered the emergence of an international, multidisciplinary community of research integrity experts. The Early Career Award was won by PixelQuality, a project led by Christopher Schmied and Helena Jambor, which aims to improve the reproducibility of scientific images.
Jury
This year’s entries will be judged by an international panel chaired by Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington. Other jury members include Vice President Suzy Styles (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Batool Almarzouq (The Alan Turing Institute, London), Gowri Gopalakrishna (Maastricht University), Helena B. Nader (Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Rio de Janeiro), and Joy Owango (TCC Africa, Nairobi).
Partners
The Individual and Institutional Awards are funded by Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft, while the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research funds the Early Career Award. Additional resources are made available by the State of Berlin. The publisher Nature Portfolio, the Public Library of Science (PLOS), the National Academy of Sciences, the Berlin University Alliance, the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Foundation support the Einstein Foundation Berlin and the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research in promoting and implementing the award.
All information about the call for submissions, the award categories, selection criteria, and the jury, along with portraits of previous years’ winners, and presentations by the finalists in the Early Career Award category can be found at award.einsteinfoundation.de.
The Einstein Foundation Berlin is an independent, not-for-profit, science-led funding organization established as a foundation under civil law in 2009. Since then, its task has been to promote cutting-edge international science and research across disciplines and institutions in and for Berlin. To date, it has funded eight Einstein Centers, over 70 pro¬jects, and more than 240 researchers, including three Nobel laureates.
The BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research was founded in 2017. It conducts research on research (meta research) and derives from it offers for the scientific community. With this mission, the BIH QUEST Center is unique in Europe. Through its projects and services, the BIH QUEST Center also examines the role of an academic institution in enhancing the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethical accountability of biomedical research.
Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft is a private grant-making foundation based in Berlin. It aims to help strengthen Germany as an excellent, internationally visible, and competitive science and research hub. Outstanding international academics at various career stages are at the heart of its funding activities. In addition to the Einstein Foundation Award, Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft supports the Einstein Foundation’s “Einstein Strategic Professorships” funding program.
https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/press-releases/2025/27012025-04/
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