Compete for the UU Team Award and the Dutch Education Award
Do you and your team work together to improve education? Or do you know a team that has delivered an exceptional performance? Compete for UU Team Award!
This year the UU Team Award will again be awarded to a team that has made an extraordinary impact on our education. The team that wins this the Team Award may submit a nomination for the Dutch Education Award on behalf of UU. This award aims to acknowledge educational teams which have developed an innovative educational initiative over the last four years. Nominated teams have the chance of winning an amount of €1.2 million, €800,000 or €500,000 (total €2.5 million).
In 2021, the Mixed Classroom team from Urban Futures Studio won the second prize of the Dutch Higher Education Award. In 2023 the team of The New Utrecht School competed, but unfortunately did not make it to the final round.
The first UU Team Award was awarded in July 2023 to team CHARM-EU, which has recently submitted the nomination for the Dutch Education Award.
For next year, there are new chances to win the prize. For 2025, UU may again submit one nomination for a successful educational team that has made an outstanding or exceptional contribution to the renewal and/or improvement of higher education in the past four years. This year’s selection of the nomination will be done through awarding the UU Team Award.
Requirements and procedure
A teaching team can be nominated and compete for the UU Team Award with the following profile:
- The Education Team consists of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 10 people;
- The Education Team consists of members with various roles, such as lecturers, relevant education director, educational researchers, hybrid lecturers, PhD students, student assistants, etc;
- The main applicant (team leader) is employed by a Dutch-funded secondary vocational education institution or higher education institution.
- The special achievements of the Education Team that form the basis for the nomination have not previously been rewarded with this premium.
A jury, supported by the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) will select the team that wins the team award, which will then be nominated by the Rector Magnificus. For this purpose, the following procedure has been established:
- By 12.00 (noon) on 15 Februray 2023 at the latest, teams wishing to be considered for the UU Team Award – and thus the Dutch Education Award – can send their initiative to cat@uu.nl , described in two pages. The description should in any case include a description of the team, a description of the educational initiative, a description of the evidence-informed approach and a short description of the impact the initiative has made on education (impact has to be described by the (vice)dean Use the format.
- During the Education Festival (OnderwijsFestival; 7 March 2024) the winners of the UU Team Award will be announced.
The winning team of the UU Team Award will be supported by the CAT in writing the definitive nomination for the Dutch Education Award, which must be submitted to OCW in the autumn of 2024.
For any questions please contact the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning at cat@uu.nl.