As part of the DLL fund, the Digital Teaching teams at TU Dresden can now also award funding of €10,000 per year on their own responsibility. This funding will start with a pilot project in 2025 and is based on the priorities and objectives of the DLL fund.

It is essential that the funds benefit teaching and raise its quality. The funds must be spent in a student-focused manner at all times and, at best, can be used sustainably for several student cohorts. Both innovative and experimental as well as established formats are eligible for funding.

The basic principles of allocation, which were defined by the TDL BU and ZiLL in consultation, are listed below:

• Teachers can proactively approach the TDL BU with proposals at any time
• If the funds have not been spent after reviewing the proactive applications, the TDL BU can actively approach lecturers and examine the possibility of funding
• There is no entitlement to funding at any time
• Analogous to the guidelines of the higher-level DLL fund, no basic technical and spatial equipment or parallel developments to existing central IT infrastructure systems and service offerings of the TUD can be funded
• Double funding with the DLL fund (currently €20,000 per funding period) is excluded
• The TDL BU votes by majority on projects worthy of funding and regularly reflects on the awarding process
• No faculty receives preferential funding and efforts are made to ensure an even distribution of funds between the faculties in the long term
• Information on the TDL BU fund is distributed through various channels (TDL BU newsletters, monitors, Dean's Offices) and published on the TDL BU website.
• Depending on the size of the project, the TDL BU carries out interim and final evaluations of the funded projects and records the experience gained.
• The funded projects and plans are published on the TDL BU website after completion and provide suitable materials for this purpose
• The grantees keep a complete record of expenditure and proactively make this available to the TDL BU and the person responsible at the ZiLL(Anne Jaschan)
• The TDL BU communicates the decisions on funding or rejection transparently to the applicants
• Rejected projects may be resubmitted in the next funding period after feedback has been incorporated
• Application details: brief project description (max. 1 page), responsible lecturer(s) and participating chairs/institutes, financial planning, current funding of a similar or identical project by another body, duration of funding, sustainability
• Applications can be submitted at any time and should be sent to the TDL BU by e-mail with the required information(TDL BU)
• The deadlines for funding in the coming years will be communicated in good time and in a way that is effective for the department