Call for nominations: Diversity-sensitive teaching award 2024

© TUD

As in previous years, TU Dresden will once again award the Best Practice Award for diversity-sensitive teaching. The teaching award has been designed to honor lecturers and teaching concepts that address diversity, or one or several aspects of diversity (e.g. gender, inclusion, origin, family responsibilities, etc.) in line with TU Dresden’s Diversity Strategy 2030. In doing so, the courses and lecturers help to raise awareness among students to diversity in everyday university (and societal) life. At the same time, the teaching award is intended to effectively celebrate the high relevance of diversity-sensitive aspects as part of excellent teaching for all students.

A total of up to 10,000 EUR in prize money are available, funded by the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments.

Allocation criteria:                                                                                  

We are looking for best practice examples from the current and the last semester that meet several of the following criteria:

• Diversity-sensitive, appreciative and transparent communication: By using a language that takes into account the diversity of TUD's members and by avoiding stereotypical terms, the diversity of students is dealt with sensitively. In addition, the communication during the course creates transparency regarding the expectation for students in terms of graded academic work.
• Diversity-sensitive interaction: The lecturer purposely counteracts stereotyping and discrimination expressed intentionally or unintentionally. All students are equally encouraged to participate. The lecturer is open to individual problems.
• Use of diverse (online) teaching methods: The lecturer uses target group specific and/or diverse teaching methods in their course. The lecturer records their own course and uploads it to the TUD website, enabling e.g. students with family responsibilities to engage with the course content asynchronously. This encourages participation from all students and allows everyone to benefit from the course.
• Accessible teaching: Teaching addresses the needs of students with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses and takes them into account in the planning, design, organization and delivery of courses.
•  Content design: The courses discuss the topic of diversity or one or more dimensions of diversity or include them at suitable points in the content (e.g. explicit inclusion of the research results of women, ...). Doing so guides students in acquiring diversity competencies.

Who can submit nominations?

Nominations can be made by all students and members of staff of TU Dresden. Students are particularly encouraged to participate by submitting nominations. Candidates can also nominate themselves.

Call for diversity-sensitive teaching award 2025 - Info sheet

Application documents

Here you can download the documents for the call and the forms to be submitted for the application:

Please submit your proposals providing the following documents:

Application form:

• Form nomination diversity-sensitive teaching award
• Form Self-nomination diversity-sensitive teaching award

Time schedule

Please submit your proposals using the attached form and attachments in electronic form by email to by 27 May 2025.

A committee will then review the applications. The assessment will include the fulfillment of the above criteria.
Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications that are incomplete or not received by the deadline.

Do not hesitate to contact:

© TU Dresden

Staff

Name

Grit Kühlborn M.A.

Coordination Diversity Projects

Send email

Send encrypted email via the SecureMail portal (for TUD external users only).

Organization Name

Unit 9.3 Diversity Management

Unit 9.3 Diversity Management

Address work

Visiting address:

Günther-Landgraf-Bau, Raum 7-206 Mommsenstr. 15

01069 Dresden

work Tel.