Every two years at the GERA congress, the association awards a prize to junior researchers for outstanding work in the field of educational research. The prize is endowed with 1,500 EUR. It is awarded for a paper published in individual or co-authored journals or an anthcollection, published by scientists who have no appointment except for a junior professorship. A jury is appointed to choose a winner.

2022

Sarah Gentrup | Paul Vehse

2020

Katja Ludwig

2018

Frederick de Moll | Christian Nerowski | Anke Wischmann 

2016

Silvia Salchegger | Thomas Rucker

2014

Katrin Kaufmann & Sarah Widany | Ruprecht Mattig

2012

Kaspar Burger | Ines Himmelsbach
Sven Kluge | Martin Rothland

2010

Uwe Maier  
Halit Öztürk & Katrin Kaufmann | Kathrin Dedering
Susanne Spieker

2008

Stefanie Hartz  
Johannes Giesinger 
Kerstin Rabenstein | Claudia Schuchart

2006

Nicole Balzer
Birthe Egloff | Sara Fürstenau 

2004

Winfried Kronig
Bettina Greimel
Britta Kohler 

2002

Eveline Wuttke
Ralf Bohrhardt
Heinz Reinders
Robin Stark

2000

Cornelia Gräsel
Ute Clement
Helga Kelle
Roland Reichenbach

1998

Elke Wildt | Klaus Peter Wild
Yvonne Ehrenspeck
Sönke Abeldt
Frank Bösch

1996

Cornelie Dietrich | Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch
Hans-Christoph Koller
Kai-Uwe Schnabel

1994

Hans-Jürgen von Wensierski
Christine Mayer
Yvonne Gabriele Lüders
Waldemar Vogelsang

1992

Lothar Wigger
Wolfgang Braungart | Diethelm Jungkurz
Elke Kleinau

1990

Ulrich Schiefele
Christian Lüders
Erika Steinert
Klaus-Peter Horn

1988

Anne Schmidt | Jürgen van Buer | Birgit Reising
Norbert Wenning
Barbara Dippelhofer-Stiem

1986

Barbara  Gaebe
Ulrich Steffens
Uwe-Jörg Jopt | Anke Engelbert-Holtze