The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research aims to provide recognition and publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians.

Promoting access to research results (‘Open Science’), embracing collaborative research (‘Team Science’) and increasing diversity in research are only some of the objectives established by the international jury. 

The Early Career Award is one of the three award categories.

Early career researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers who seek to to make outstanding contributions to enhanceing the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research can submit a project proposal for an award of €100,000.

To qualify as an ECR, candidates must hold a doctorate or have equivalent research experience and should not have been working as an independent researcher for more than five years. Teams may also include senior researchers, students and non-scientists. 

There are no restrictions concerning the affiliations or nationalities of the applying researchers and their institutions.

The Early Career Award fund should be used exclusively for the proposed project’s activities as described in the application, i.e. it should be used solely to improve research quality.

For more information on the Early Career Award, eligibility, application requirements, and the selction process:

https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/about

https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/for-applicants-nominators