Fellowships for Innovation in (Digital) Academic Teaching

Fellowships for innovations in academic teaching

Since 2011, the Stifterverband and the DATEV-Stiftung Zukunft annualy award "Fellowships for Innovations in Academic Teaching." Lecturers from all disciplines at public and private universities in Germany can submit applications. The fellowships are individual, personalized grants that provide the fellows with the freedom and resources to carry out proposed teaching innovations. The aim of the program is to create incentives for the development and testing of novel teaching and examination formats or the redesign of modules and study sections, as well as to promote exchange on university teaching.

2019

  • Prof. Dr. Tobias Jenert, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Paderborn University, together with Prof. Dr. Taiga Brahm, University of Tübingen, "How do we teach economics? What economics do we teach?"

2016

  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Reis, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Paderborn University, together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wiesemann, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , "Enabling competence development"

2013

  • Dr. Marc Sacher, Faculty of Science, Paderborn University, "The Competence-Oriented Physics Lab"

Fellowships for innovations in digital academic teaching

Since 2016, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) and the Stifterverband annually award "Fellowships for Innovations in Digital Academic Teaching". These are intended for teachers who work at state-run universities or state-refinanced universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This is an individual, person-based grant that provides fellows with the freedom and resources to implement teaching innovations. A Fellowship is endowed with up to 50,000 euros, a Tandem Fellowship with up to 100,000 euros.

2019

  • Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Paderborn University, together with Prof. Dr. Heiner Giefers, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, "Digital Teaching Letters with Jupyter Notebooks"
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katrin Temmen, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Paderborn University, together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Kersten, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, "Design & use of smart, interactive scripts in MINT basic subjects (smartiS)" 

2018

  • Dr. Marc Sacher, Faculty of Science, Paderborn University, "Diffle-Tool"

2017

  • Dr. Thomas John, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Paderborn University, "Steadying students' motivation to learn through gamification"
  • Prof. Dr. Ilka Mindt, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Paderborn University, "Bridging - foreign language and subject studies, heterogeneity in the inverted classroom, and digital and social learning in English linguistics"

2016

  • Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Paderborn University, "Philosophy goes MOOC"
  • Prof. Dr. Rebekka Schmidt, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Paderborn University,"Innovation through Combination. Promoting Creativity through the Inverted Classroom Method and Tablets in Art Didactic Seminars"
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