Awards for excellence in teaching

As a key component of TUM's quality campaigns, we ensure that good teaching receives the recognition it deserves. Teaching should be an attractive career option, and a university teaching portfolio should be treated as a criterion for professional advancement. Awards are an important means of signalizing that excellence in teaching counts; additionally, they give lecturers the necessary latitude to develop and implement new instructional concepts. For information on the various kinds of teaching prizes awarded at TUM, the application procedures, and previous award recipients, read more.

Awards for excellence in teaching

Wanted: Role models for university teaching! (Photo: Andreas Heddergott) — Wanted: Role models for university teaching! Photo: Andreas Heddergott

Ernst Otto Fischer Teaching Award is bestowed each year to three innovative and successful teaching projects implemented at TUM. The award honors the commitment of outstanding instructors to the enrichment of university teaching. More

A one-semester sabbatical devoted to teaching, the Semester's Leave for Teaching (Freisemester für Lehre) gives TUM professors the necessary margin of freedom to develop innovative teaching concepts. More

Every year, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK) honors selected lecturers at Bavarian universities with the Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Preis für gute Lehre), endowed with €5,000. TUM recognizes all of its nominees with the "Excellence in Teaching" certificate. More

The Ars Legendi-Prize for excellence in university teaching is awarded annually by the Stifterverband (Donors' Association), on recommendation by the German Rectors' Conference (HRK). More

Fellowships for Innovation in Academic Instruction: Funded by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, the Casper Ludwig Opländer Stiftung, the Joachim Herz Stiftung, and the Stifterverband, these annual fellowships are earmarked to provide start-up financing for innovative projects relating to the advancement of university teaching. More

In recognition of exceptionally dedicated teachers at TUM, various in-house teaching awards are conferred by TUM schools and colleges and their students. More

Contact

Coordination: Awards for excellence in teaching

TUM Center for Study and Teaching
Study and Teaching - Quality Management
Frauke Winkel, M.A.
Phone: +49.89.289.25459
winkel(at)zv.tum.de

ProLehre | Media and Didactics
Dr. Andreas Fleischmann
Phone: +49.89.289.25364
fleischmann(at)prolehre.tum.de

Kontakt

Koordination Lehrpreise

TUM Center for Study and Teaching
Studium und Lehre - Qualitätsmanagement
Frauke Winkel, M.A.
Tel.: +49.89.289.25459
Fax: +49.89.289.25209
winkel(at)zv.tum.de

ProLehre | Medien und Didaktik
Dr. Andreas Fleischmann
Tel.: +49.89.289.25364
Fax: +49.89.289.25209
fleischmann(at)prolehre.tum.de