Call for proposals open: Open and Online Education incentive scheme 2021
ICT in education presents opportunities for innovation and quality improvement. Consequently, the Minister for Education, Culture and Science is making funding available through the Open and Online Education incentive scheme, which is being coordinated by SURF. The incentive scheme encompasses two pillars: Online Education and Open Learning Materials.
A sum of €700,000 has been made available for each of these pillars. As a member of teaching staff, you can apply for €100,000 (Online Education) or €175,000 (Open Learning Materials) for an educational innovation project. These amounts need to be matched 100% by your faculty. Funding and awards give teaching staff the means to enrich their teaching and make progress in their educational career. This helps make them more visible and in a wider sense garners recognition for their role.
Themes
Online Education: the Online Education pillar sees participants challenged to enrich their teaching with online teaching methods or to redesign their curriculum with the possibilities that online teaching offers. The annual theme for 2021 is 'activating learning and assessment'. As a minimum, project proposals submitted must tie in with one of the two challenges that this annual theme encompasses. Read more on the annual theme 'activating learning and assessment' on the SURF website.
Open Learning Materials: the Open Learning Materials pillar sees participants challenged to join forces with other subject lecturers to build collections of open learning materials and reuse these within the subject community. In order to ensure wide-ranging relevance of the project results, the application must be submitted in conjunction with at least one other higher education institution. There most likely will be a collaboration with our partners Wageningen University & Research, Eindhoven University of Technology en the UMC Utrecht given the themes of this call. You can read more about this alliance here.
Support & internal procedure
The Centre for Academic Teaching encourages innovation in teaching and research by lecturers into the teaching they provide. The centre offers a variety of options for funding offered by the university itself and offers support with obtaining external funding and awards. We see to it that experts from Education Consultation & Training, Educate-it and ITS give feedback on your proposal. In order to streamline this process and the support from the Executive Board, we adhere to the following internal procedure:
As soon as possible | If you are interested in submitting a project proposal, we kindly request that you let us know as soon as possible by sending an email to cat@uu.nl, including the title and an outline description of the project. We will ensure that applicants proposing projects on similar topics are put in touch with one another to enable harmonisation of the applications to be submitted, thereby bolstering the chances of success. |
As soon as possible | If you are interested in submitting a project proposal, please inform your Director of Education and Faculty Board as soon as possible. They will need to provide a (written) guarantee of the required matching. |
10 November 2020 | Internal deadline |
17 November 2020 | The proposal is returned to the applicant for the purpose of processing the feedback. |
1 December 2020 | The finalised application (incl. project proposal, project budget and Faculty Board approval) should be submitted by no later than 12 noon on 1 December 2020 by sending it to cat@uu.nl. |
8 december 2020 | The Executive Board will decide which proposals are to be submitted, in line with the advice from EC&PD, ITS & Educate-it. |
9 December 2020 | Applicants will hear whether their application is eligible for submission. |
15 December 2020 | External deadline |
Further information
Early July & late August: UU walk-in consultation on your proposal (details to follow)
15 September 2020: SURF webinar: Test your idea for the incentive scheme
8 October 2020: SURF webinar: From idea to project proposal
You can find more information on educational innovation on the CAT website. Further information on the Open and Online Education incentive scheme, the annual themes, the deadlines and terms and conditions can be found on this SURF website.