Team Summer School Digital Art History wins UU Team Award Education 2025

During the OnderwijsFestival on Thursday 6 March, the winning team of the UU Team Award Education was announced. Team Summer School Digital Art History from the Faculty of Humanities was awarded the prize.

The UU Team Award is a special education award that was created as part of the TRIPLE model: recognising and rewarding teaching and teamwork. The Team Award is being awarded to not only reward a special initiative that has had a great impact on our education, but also to recognise the value of working together as a team, with different people with different backgrounds.

The jury nominated three teams this year. The nominated teams were invited to give a short pitch during the jury meeting.

Winning team

This year, the UU Team Award Education was won by the team behind the interdisciplinary education and research project Summer School Digital Art History. This project arose from concrete questions from conservators and the Stichting Grote Kerk Naarden. The restoration of the 700m² ceiling vault required an integrated approach in which art-historical, digital and material-technical perspectives came together. The Summer School consisted of one week of high-intensity on-site teaching during which teachers, students and external partners carried out digitisation and art-historical research. Initial results were shared with a wide audience, including 120 visitors to a symposium in the church, as well as through local and national media.

Prize

The winning team will receive €10.000 to be spent on team development, team building, a training or course, a contribution to a study trip, an offsite-day or something similar of their choice.