Teaching Prizes

What can be nominated?

• innovative concepts and/or
• particularly motivating individuals with proven educational abilities in higher education teaching within a field of study and/or beyond
• courses of various types with didactically particularly well-prepared accompanying material and a didactically particularly well-though-out structure. This may also include tried and tested courses or modules
• tutorials or orientation events (especially when the award is intended for faculties, etc.)
• writings or materials that are particularly useful in studies, also including a new textbook that is not yet established on the market
• a didactically qualified monograph
• teaching concepts that promote education on sustainable development in a special way

Who can nominate?

• University organizational units that are responsible for teaching, such as faculties, institutes, and departments
• departmental student committees
• groups of at least ten students
• working groups
• members of academic staff who teach on their own authority (students and tutors cannot receive the award)

Nominations must be submitted to the responsible degree programme commission of the respective faculty.

Usage guidelines

A total of €10,000 will be awarded in 2024. The award can be shared by several awardees. The award may be used for purposes of teaching (instructional development, teaching quality, improvement of teaching) at the University of Freiburg at the discretion of the awardee. The nomination should also include a description of how the award is to be used.

Deadlines

Please submit your nominations including the information listed above via the degree programme commissions by 3 June 2024.

Please note that the Senate Commission on Academic Affairs can only consider nominations submitted in full to the Office for Honours and Awards by the deadline stated above.

Please enquire early on as to the meeting dates and deadlines of the responsible degree programme commission so that it is possible to submit the nomination by the deadline!

Award ceremony

The award ceremony is expected to take place in the 2024/25 winter semester, at the official opening of the academic year.

Prize-winners

What can be nominated?

• The prize is intended for exemplary student involvement that serves as a model to be emulated by others and directly benefits other students and/or society. It can be awarded for both the special scope of an individual project and exemplary, continuous engagement;
• Collaboration in working groups (e.g., working groups within student governments) that can be separated from the regular committee work as a project in concrete terms can be nominated for the special student prize. Student involvement in the form of committee work or regular attendance at meetings is not on its own sufficient grounds for nomination.

Who can nominate?

• individuals (a student, also within the context of a doctoral degree programme)
• a student group

Usage guidelines

• The prize is worth €1,000 and can be shared.
• It is possible to nominate either an individual (a student, also within the context of a doctoral degree programme) or a student group.
• If a group of students is nominated, the statement on the reason for the nomination must describe in detail which of the students initiated the project and in what way the other nominated students contributed to the project.
• The prize money may be used for purposes of promoting student interests at the awardee’s university at the discretion of the awardee. The prize money cannot be used for private purposes.
• The nomination should also include a description of how the prize money is to be used.

Deadlines

Please submit your nominations including the information listed above via the degree programme commissions by 3 June 2024.

Please enquire early on as to the meeting dates and deadlines of the responsible degree programme commission so that it is possible to submit the nomination by the deadline!

Award ceremony

The award ceremony is expected to take place in the 2024/25 winter semester, at the official opening of the academic year.