The WU Best Paper Award is one of the highest research honors at WU, awarded annually to only a few individuals or teams. An independent international jury, with external guidance, recognizes the internationally outstanding research.
The award, funded by the Jubiläumsfonds of the City of Vienna for WU Vienna since 2000, is given in three categories. Since 2017, a fourth prize (New Research Avenues) has been awarded. This prize recognizes, across the three categories, the paper that best explores new paths away from the mainstream or brings the discipline closer to previously separate research fields