Call for Entries

Apply now for the interdisciplinary €350K Einstein Foundation Award

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 2025 winners will be awarded €350,000.

The award aims to provide recognition and publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the life sciences, natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians.

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.

The individual and institutional awards are funded by the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft, while the BIH QUEST Center supports 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.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025. Further details can be found at award.einsteinfoundation.de