In 2025, the "A.SK Social Science Award" will be anounced again. Endowed with 75,000 euros, it is one of the world’s largest in the social sciences. In addition, a "Bright Mind Award" will be presented to younger social scientists with a prize sum of 20,000 euros. Both awards honor research on public policy with a focus on economic and governmental reforms. The laureates will be announced in the autumn of 2025; the award ceremony will take place on November 5, 2025 in Berlin.

Former recipients are the Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu (2023/MIT), who has won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024, the American political scientist James C. Scott(†) (2021/Yale), the American economist Raj Chetty (2019/Harvard), the American political scientist John Ruggie (†) (2017/Harvard), the French-American developmental economist Esther Duflo (2015/MIT), who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, the British economist Paul Collier (2013/University of Oxford), the nonprofit organization Transparency International (2011/Berlin), the American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum (2009/University of Chicago) and the British economist Sir Anthony Atkinson (†) (2007/University of Oxford).

The prize recipients are selected by an international commission chaired by Dorothea Kübler, director of the WZB department Market Behavior.

Here you can find the current call for nominations