Teaching Prizes from the University of Graz
The teaching prizes "Teaching: Excellent!" And "Digital Teaching: Excellent!" are intended to make innovative teaching concepts and media-didactic implementations visible, to offer other teachers a stimulus, to initiate the discussion of university and media-didactic findings and trends as well as the efforts of committed scientists who Design and reward their teaching with enthusiasm.
>> Announcement 2020/21: Teaching and testing based on competence
Teaching prizes 2019/20: Award ceremony on May 26, 2021
The ceremonial handover of the three main prizes and eight recognition prizes will take place online this year following the awarding of the Seraphine Puchleitner Prize on May 26, 2021 from 5:30 p.m. The event will be accompanied musically by Michael Lagger.
The entire event with keynote and award ceremonies will be streamed via uniTUBE from 4 p.m., registration is not required. Link to the event: https://unitube.uni-graz.at/portal/streaming.html?id=event11
Details and possible changes can be found on our joint website.
From 7:00 p.m. we invite all guests to an informal conclusion about "Wonder:"
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=2a552159-38f8-4a11-9742-9d9eefdfbe52.
Should technical problems or questions arise, you can contact lehrpreis@uni-graz.at at any time.
Prize winners 2019/20
How do you succeed in teaching students to actively think and collaborate? This question was the focus of the teaching awards 2019/20, which were about the activation of students. Out of a total of 43 nominations - eleven for the “Digital Teaching: Excellent!” Prize, 32 for the “Teaching: Excellent!” Prize - three courses particularly impressed the eight-member jury. The business educators Gernot Dreisiebner, Silvia Lipp and Franz-Karl Skala impressed with their introductory seminar "Didactics and Design of Business Subjects" in the category "Digital Teaching: Excellent!"
The prize "Teaching: Excellent!" was awarded to the physicist Ulrich Foelsche for his lecture "Introduction to Meteorology and Climate Physics" and Jürgen Pirker, who works at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science, for his course "Constitutional Law and General Political Science."
In addition, the jury decided to award recognition prizes for special commitment in the Covid summer semester 2020. The recognition prizes go to:
- Paige Baralija, Department of English Studies, KS Language Productive and Receptive Skills
- Florika Griessner, Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies, KS Italian: Translational Basic Competence II - Oral Text Competence
- Walter Iber, Institute for Economic, Social and Corporate History, KS Selected Topics in Economic History
- Georg Jäger, Institute for Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research, VO Systems Science 2
- Marlene Peinhopf, Institute for Legal Basics, KS Roman Law
- Patrick Schuchter & Klaus Wegleitner, Institute for Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology, SE Care Ethics and Politics of Care
- Brigitte Spreitzer-Fleck, Institute for German Studies, SE Bachelor Seminar for Module 3 (Emotions in Medieval Literature)
- Georg Weidacher, Institute for German Studies, PS Text Linguistics