The Open Science Award of the University of Luebeck aims at making Open Science better known and at promote open science with all its fields and topics within the university.
The Open Science Award for Students and Young Scientists was awarded for the first time in 2022 and went to Prof. Dr. Phil. André Calero Valdez and Lilian Kojan M. Sc. from the Institute of Multimedia and Interactive Systems. They were honored for their work "Perceptions of behavior efficacy, not perceptions of threat, are drivers of COVID-19 protective behavior in Germany".
Individuals or groups with an affiliation to the University of Lübeck or the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Lübeck are eligible for the award. The object of submission is a scientific project that has excelled in the areas of transparency, reproducibility, reusability, and open communication and has gone beyond the standards of the respective field or has created means to raise these standards or make them more easily achievable. In addition to scientific publications in journals, this may also include preprints, theses, software, teaching materials, infrastructure projects, or the like. The date of publication (for theses submission) should not have been before January 01, 2020. The prize winners will be selected by a jury consisting of scientific staff (professors, postdocs, PhD students) of the University of Lübeck and UKSH and representatives of the student body.