Funding organizations worldwide dedicate substantial resources to ensuring that only research of the highest rigor and quality receives funding. Their policies, evaluation criteria, selection processes, and programs directly impact how researchers plan, conduct, analyze, and disseminate their research. As major gatekeepers, funders play a key role in fostering transparency and integrity of research and innovation, while restricting questionable and poor research practices.
What strategies of funders have been effective (or ineffective) in eliciting support from researchers and buy-in from institutional leadership? Should the stakeholders of the research ecosystem cooperate more closely when striving to improve research quality?
These and other questions will be discussed by a high-profile panel:
Julika Griem, Literary Studies, Vice President of the German Research Foundation
Michael Lauer, Medicine/Biostatistics, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health
Arthur Lupia, Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Marcia McNutt, Geophysics, President of the National Academy of Sciences
Martin Zettersten, Cognitive Psychology, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Welcome by
Ulrich Dirnagl, Clinical Neurosciences, Director of the BIH QUEST Center & Head of the Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Host
Tracey Weissgerber, Group Leader, QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Award Ceremony
The discussion will be followed by the festive presentation of the 2021 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. Due to the pandemic the award-giving ceremony was postponed to 2022.
Paul Ginsparg, recipient of the Individual Award, representatives of the Center of Open Science (COS), recipient of the Institutional Award, and Jessica Kosie & Martin Zettersten, recipients of the Early Career Award, will be present for the ceremony.
September 12, 2022, 5 - 8 pm // National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Program
5:00pm Welcome
5:10pm Introduction
5:15pm Discussion
6:30pm Award Ceremony
7:00pm Reception
8:00pm End
Partner
A joint event of the National Academy of Sciences, the German Research Foundation and the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Venue
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20418, USA
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The Einstein Foundation Award
The Einstein Foundation Berlin’s international award, launched in 2021, provides publicity for researchers and institutions seeking to improve the quality of research. The €500,000 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research will honor researchers and institutions whose work helps to advance the quality and robustness of research findings.
→ About the Award
Contact
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl
Secretary
Einstein Foundation Award
Director BIH Quest Center
award(at)einsteinfoundation.de
Dr. Ulrike Pannasch
Coordinator
Einstein Foundation Award
T: +49(0)157-71731127
up(at)einsteinfoundation.de
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