Teaching Awards 2022

Teaching Award for innovative student-designed teaching and learning

For the first time, the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Technische Universität Dresden (GFF) is calling for nominations for a teaching award honoring teaching and learning at TU Dresden that has been conceptualized by student groups and initiatives in the 2021/2022 academic year. The total amount of prize money to be awarded is EUR 5,000.

The award is conferred for:

• courses developed by students or joint student projects that are integrated into TUD's program in the long term
• outstanding student involvement in teaching activities
• particularly innovative/creative/participative teaching designed by students
• outstanding student involvement in projects with school children
  
   

Teaching Award of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Technische Universität Dresden 2022

• We want to achieve excellence together – motivated students and outstandingly qualified TU Dresden graduates. Innovative teaching and examination methods, both on-site and online, are key elements in this process. Once again, we would like to honor the exceptional commitment to teaching at TUD in education and training with the Teaching Awards of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Technische Universität Dresden.
  
  The total amount of prize money to be awarded is EUR 30,000. This way, activities from each faculty and each of the Central Units that offer degree programs will have the chance to receive a teaching award, provided they submit an application.

  We will honor teaching and learning concepts from the 2021/2022 academic year that address the following issues, prepare them in a creative way, and put them into practice in an approach that is geared towards the future:

  1. Ecological sustainability

• In addition to teaching the content of their respective subjects, the lecturers actively incorporate perspectives on ecological sustainability into their teaching.
• We are looking for concepts that creatively combine aspects of ecological sustainability with subject-related content.
  
  2. Entrepreneurship:
• It is a key mission of our university to motivate and enable our students to develop innovative ideas, as well as to critically question and implement them as needed. By analyzing what already exists, we aim to create innovative models for research or practice.
• We are looking for concepts that make entrepreneurship easily conceivable as a dynamic process and promote it - even beyond the boundaries of the sub-discipline of economics -  and integrating it with the relevant subject content.
   
• Important details:
• Members of all groups at TU Dresden are eligible to submit nominations.
• The award can be conferred to individuals or groups of individuals.
• The prize money is earmarked for the continued development, permanent establishment, and expansion of student teaching.