Sponsorship award 2024 - Central University Administration

Award for innovation and quality improvement in teaching 2024

The university management calls for proposals for a prize to promote innovation and quality improvement in teaching. The prize supports the commitment of teaching staff to university teaching and makes the quality of teaching at Paderborn University visible. At the same time, the prize is intended to help strengthen and further develop the university's profile.
By awarding the prize for innovation and quality improvement in teaching, Paderborn University promotes the trialling and implementation of novel concepts. The projects should be expected to effectively improve the quality of teaching.
Several prizes with a total prize money volume of up to EUR 150,000 can be awarded.

The prize is awarded annually and applications for 2024 can be submitted from 8 April 2024 to 15 June 2024 (midnight). The deadline for receipt of the complete documents by subject area 6.1 is decisive.

Please refer to the tender text and the application form.

Tender text (.pdf)
Application form (.docx, to be signed personally and submitted in original)
Contact form
Information on data processing in the context of the application

Procedure and schedule

Note:
The selection process is only finalised by the decision of the Executive Committee. No information or indications regarding the "prospects of success" of an application can be given before the decision by the Executive Committee.

08 April 2024	Start of the application phase
15 June 2024	End of the application phase (midnight, the date of receipt of the complete documents by department 6.1 is decisive)
June - October 2024	Evaluation and discussion of the applications, meeting of a preliminary selection in the Senate Commission for Teaching, Studies and Quality Management (SK)
October / November 2024	Presentation of the projects in the preliminary selection in the SC
November 2024	Proposal of the award winners to the Executive Board by the SC
November / December 2024	Decision by the Executive Committee on the award winners
Spring 2025	Public honouring of the award winners by the Executive Committee

Press releases Teaching 2024 funding award

Press release on the start of the tender (link follows)

Hint

In addition to the sponsors ' award for innovation and quality improvement in teaching, which promotes the testing and implementation of new concepts for university teaching and the further development and transfer of existing concepts, the teaching award for young academics, which is also advertised, marks another point in the university management's strategy of focussing on outstanding teaching. The aim of the Teaching Award for Young Academics is to recognise teaching concepts and methods of an outstanding and exemplary nature. The award also recognises achievements in teaching that are based on traditional and proven forms of teaching and are characterised by their outstanding quality. The award is intended to highlight the special importance of university teaching for the training of young academics and to create a career incentive to get involved in and for university teaching. For contact details and further information, please contact the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics and visit: www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/bildungsinnovationen-hochschuldidaktik/lehrpreis/.