The winners of this year's Einstein Foundation Award have been announced and will be presented in a virtual interview on Monday, November 20, starting at 6:00 pm. The Individual Award goes to Yves Moreau from the University of Leuven, the Institutional Award recognizes the work of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), and the Early Career Award goes to the Responsible Research Assessment Initiative, headed by Anne Gärtner (Dresden University of Technology).

Patrick Forscher, finalist of the 2021 Early Career Award and meta-researcher at the Busara Center in Kenya, will talk to the winners about current challenges in improving research quality and the winners will shed light on the goals they want to achieve with the award.

The €500,000 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research honors researchers and institutions whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality and robustness of research findings. The award is bestowed jointly with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).).