Vera Lisakowski has been at the Grimme Institute since 2007, where she heads the competition for the Grimme Online Award. For this purpose, she annually reviews hundreds of journalistic online offerings and discusses them with the nomination commission and the jury of the Grimme Online Award. In addition, she was involved in research projects of the Grimme Research College, among others on the question of financing of democracy-relevant online offerings or the research of the award archive. She also contributes to the content of the GOA talks series of events, most recently on the topic of new narrative formats on the web, using the example of offerings about history and contemporary history. A graduate online editor and architecture graduate, she also works as a freelance journalist for cultural magazines and a television magazine and is a founding member of the "Tu was für Europa" association.