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27-01-2025 - Promoting Quality in Research: Submissions for International Einstein Foundation Award Now Open
The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research by the Einstein Foundation Berlin honours outstanding efforts that enhance the rigour, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research. The award is given to researchers, teams, institutions or organisations that have demonstrated excellence in areas such as fostering research integrity, developing quality-improving interventions, or increasing diversity in research. Achievements in the following four areas are considered: Reproducibility and Research Quality, MetaScience, Research Assessment and Incentives, and Accessibility and Inclusion. This may include measures such as promoting Open Science and Team Science, implementing innovative approaches to prevent misconduct, ensuring long-term data archiving, or addressing systemic factors affecting research integrity. The award also recognises contributions to reproducibility studies and the teaching of good research practices, as well as efforts to develop more appropriate methods for assessing research quality beyond purely quantitative measures.
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