Teaching Award of the Friends of the TUD to Prof. Markus Scholz and Dr. Benedikt Kapteina

On January 8, 2026, the Association of Friends and Sponosrs of TU Dresden (GFF) presented the teaching awards for the 2024/2025 academic year in the Rectorate Ballroom of the University Executive Board.

The GFF has been awarding prizes for outstanding achievements in the field of education and training for many years. The annual awards in various categories are intended to create incentives for improving teaching at TU Dresden and provide impetus for new ideas and concepts. Once again, all university members were invited to submit proposals, from which the GFF Board, together with the Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Across the Life Course, selected 5 award winners.

In total, the teachers and teams were awarded in three categories: the GFF 2025 Teaching Award, the Student Teaching Award 2025, the Teaching Award for Teacher Training Programs 2025 and the GFF Teaching Award 2025:

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Professor Markus Scholz and Dr. Benedikt Kapteina - Practical Applications of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

The IHI Zittau course was aimed at students on the MA Business Ethics and Responsible Management and not only taught CSR theory, but also enabled application in a real project with cooperation partners that required commitment, creativity and teamwork. "This experience made us realize that we can have a real impact on society."

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Michelle Hoffmann - Musical "Bonnie and Clyde"

The student teaching prize is awarded for the production/direction of the musical "Bonnie and Clyde" as part of the language learning seminars at the Institute of English and American Studies. Every semester, English-language plays are rehearsed and performed so that students can improve their language skills. She is the first student to have directed a play on her own. Learn more

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Anastasia Averkova - LitForum: The other than the own - learning to interpret older German literature

Since the winter semester 2024/2025, this student-designed, independently organized and implemented course has accompanied lectures, exercises and tutorials of the Old German Studies basic module for teacher training students in German and in the Bachelor's degree in German Studies. The course is an example of "innovative, student initiative with a view to improving teaching".

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Prof. Nicole Raschke, Dr. Simone Reutemann - Learning on site - Excursion testing at Lauenstein Castle

The course for the geography teaching degree is a deepening of the geography didactic focus of excursion didactics. Lauenstein Castle became a practical learning location where seminars were held, students investigated spatial issues on site, took part in excursions themselves and developed their own didactic excursion concepts using the Actionbound app.

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Prof. Melanie Humann, Simon Korn, Gudrun Deppe, Leon Jank - Main Design Urbanism and Design, Johanngeorgenstadt '54

The event enabled the students to explore rural areas thematically and the resulting ideas were incorporated into a land use plan for the region. The real project allowed the students to try out interdisciplinary collaboration due to the large number of partners involved and opened up insights into future professional contexts.

In the presence of numerous guests and cooperation partners, the award winners received their certificates and had the opportunity to briefly present their formats once again. Congratulation!

Contact:
Tanja Matthes
Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden
Phone: +49 351 46340365