Award for innovation and quality improvement in teaching 2024
The university management calls for proposals for a prize to promote innovation and quality improvement in teaching. The prize supports the commitment of teaching staff to university teaching and makes the quality of teaching at Paderborn University visible. At the same time, the prize is intended to help strengthen and further develop the university's profile.
By awarding the prize for innovation and quality improvement in teaching, Paderborn University promotes the trialling and implementation of novel concepts. The projects should be expected to effectively improve the quality of teaching.
Several prizes with a total prize money volume of up to EUR 150,000 can be awarded.
The prize is awarded annually and applications for 2024 can be submitted from 8 April 2024 to 15 June 2024 (midnight). The deadline for receipt of the complete documents by subject area 6.1 is decisive.
Please refer to the tender text and the application form.
- Tender text (.pdf)
- Application form (.docx, to be signed personally and submitted in original)
- Contact form
- Information on data processing in the context of the application
Procedure and schedule
Note:
The selection process is only finalised by the decision of the Executive Committee. No information or indications regarding the "prospects of success" of an application can be given before the decision by the Executive Committee.
| 08 April 2024 | Start of the application phase |
| 15 June 2024 | End of the application phase (midnight, the date of receipt of the complete documents by department 6.1 is decisive) |
| June - October 2024 | Evaluation and discussion of the applications, meeting of a preliminary selection in the Senate Commission for Teaching, Studies and Quality Management (SK) |
| October / November 2024 | Presentation of the projects in the preliminary selection in the SC |
| November 2024 | Proposal of the award winners to the Executive Board by the SC |
| November / December 2024 | Decision by the Executive Committee on the award winners |
| Spring 2025 | Public honouring of the award winners by the Executive Committee |
Press releases Teaching 2024 funding award
- Press release on the start of the tender (link follows)
Hint
In addition to the sponsors ' award for innovation and quality improvement in teaching, which promotes the testing and implementation of new concepts for university teaching and the further development and transfer of existing concepts, the teaching award for young academics, which is also advertised, marks another point in the university management's strategy of focussing on outstanding teaching. The aim of the Teaching Award for Young Academics is to recognise teaching concepts and methods of an outstanding and exemplary nature. The award also recognises achievements in teaching that are based on traditional and proven forms of teaching and are characterised by their outstanding quality. The award is intended to highlight the special importance of university teaching for the training of young academics and to create a career incentive to get involved in and for university teaching. For contact details and further information, please contact the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics and visit: www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/bildungsinnovationen-hochschuldidaktik/lehrpreis/.