diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 78ab795..302dd88 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,9 +3,15 @@
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
+with open("src/NERDA/about.py") as f:
+    v = f.read()
+    for l in v.split("\n"):
+        if l.startswith("__version__"):
+            __version__ = l.split('"')[-2]
+
 setuptools.setup(
     name="NERDA", 
-    version="1.0.0",
+    version=__version__,
     author="Lars Kjeldgaard, Lukas Christian Nielsen",
     author_email="lars.kjeldgaard@eb.dk",
     description="A Framework for Finetuning Transformers for Named-Entity Recognition",
diff --git a/src/NERDA/__init__.py b/src/NERDA/__init__.py
index 2d7ded4..ef19635 100644
--- a/src/NERDA/__init__.py
+++ b/src/NERDA/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-import NERDA
\ No newline at end of file
+import NERDA
+from .about import __version__, __title__
diff --git a/src/NERDA/about.py b/src/NERDA/about.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96e56d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/NERDA/about.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+__title__ = "NERDA"
+__version__ = "1.0.1"  # the ONLY source of version ID