Call for applications : Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award 2025

In 2025, TUD will once again award the Best Practice Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award. The prize is awarded to teachers and teaching concepts that deal with diversity in an outstanding way in line with TUD's 2030 Diversity Strategy. The award not only recognizes the commitment to diverse and inclusive university teaching, but also underlines the high relevance of diversity-sensitive approaches in the context of excellent teaching.

Why the teaching award is so important

The aim of the award is to sensitize students to diversity in everyday university and social life. At the same time, the award is intended to highlight the importance of diversity in teaching. Key award criteria include: inclusive, appreciative and transparent communication and interaction as well as diverse and barrier-free teaching methods.

A total of 10,000 euros in prize money is available, funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.

QuaBIS - award-winning project for students

In 2021, the employees of the QuaBIS project (Qualification of Education and Inclusion Officers in Saxony) were awarded the Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award for the seminar "DIY Inclusion at the TUD - start, don't stop". In the summer semester 2025, the staff of the QuaBIS project will offer the seminar "Gemeinsam Forschen" (Researching Together) at the Chair of Education / Inclusive Education (EWIB). On the Chair's website you will find an overview of the courses with a focus on inclusion in the summer semester 2025. On the website of the TUD Diversity Management you can find more information about the 2021 award for the QuaBIS project.

Who can apply - and how?

Proposals can be submitted until May 27, 2025, this year's German Diversity Day. All students, employees and university initiatives and groups at TUD are eligible to submit proposals. Students in particular are cordially invited to actively participate in the call for proposals. Self-proposals are also expressly possible.

👉 Further information on the call for proposals and the application documents are available online.

👉 A brief overview of the award winners and their innovative teaching concepts from 2024 can be found on the TUD website