Hamburg Teaching Prize

Motivating, interdisciplinary, innovative—every semester, Universität Hamburg offers numerous excellent courses. Every year, the Hamburg Ministry of Science, Research and Equalities (BWFGB) awards the Hamburg Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching at Hamburg’s publicly funded higher education institutions.

A total of 14 individual prizes, each worth €10,000, are awarded, one award per higher education institution or faculty.

Prizewinners 2024

The following teachers from the University of Hamburg received a prize:

Simon Rienks, Fiona Sauerbier und Dr. Tobias Vlćek, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft
Nina Weißenborn und Karen Weddehage, Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft
Britta Harms, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften
Dr. Parisa Moll-Khosrawi, Medizinische Fakultät
Martin Stieben, Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften
Dr. Wiebke Langer, Fakultät für Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Sylvie Vincent-Höper, Fakultät für Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft
Mailin Loock, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
Dr. Michael Paetz, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Find out what is special about their courses and their individual approaches to good teaching in the Newsroom article:

Hamburg Teaching Prize 2024

Thirteen teachers honored at the University of Hamburg

Die Hamburger Lehrpreisträgerinnen und Lehrpreisträger 2024.

Photo: BWFGB/Kirstin Hammerstein

On 16 July 2024, the award ceremony for the Hamburg Teaching Prize took place in the State and University Library. Altogether, 13 members of our teaching staff were honored for outstanding seminars, modules, or prcatical courses.

Newsroom article (in German language)

Who can submit nominations?

Only students are entitled to submit nominations for the Hamburg Teaching Prize. So, if any of your courses stands out as being particularly good, nominate the teacher for the Hamburg Teaching Prize!

Remember to give a reason for your choice, based on the criteria from the Hamburg Teaching Prize award agreement, and include your justification (max. three pages) as an attachment (PDF or DOCX) to your nomination.

Who decides?

Based on the criteria stated in the Hamburg Teaching Prize agreement, a faculty jury (consisting of the vice dean for academic affairs, 2 faculty members delegated by the faculty council, and 2 student representatives) will evaluate the submitted suggestions. This jury then nominates a candidate or a teaching team.

The Executive University Board will formally examine all nominations before forwarding them to the Ministry of Science, Research and Equalities.

What are the criteria?

The Ministry of Science, Research and Equalities and Hamburg’s public universities sets the following criteria:

Quality of expertise and teaching abilities: Good teaching is at the cutting-edge of academic and artistic discourse and teaching methods.
Innovative teaching methods and materials: The teacher uses target group-specific, innovative teaching methods and learning materials (e.g., e-learning, blended learning, problem-oriented learning, and team coaching).
Quality assurance: The use of quality assurance measures to optimize teaching (e.g., student course reviews, evaluations, and accreditation procedures) is guaranteed.
Consideration of gender: Teaching and learning behavior reflects gender-specific considerations, and is integrated into the teaching.
Motivation: Students are inspired and develop a love for the subject. They are encouraged and enabled to study independently in suitable areas.
Outcome-based learning: The skills students have to acquire are clearly defined and the course teaching methods ensure they achieve these qualifications.
Knowledge transfer: Students are given the skills to transfer the knowledge gained to other areas and apply it independently.
Interdisciplinary approach: The teacher opens the material to interdisciplinary issues and encourages students to engage with the content of other disciplines.
Practical relevance: The lessons reflect on the skills students are to acquire, teaching them how and where these can best be applied.
Internationalization and interculturality: Good teaching builds an understanding of international knowledge transfer in a globalized world and promotes dialogue between different cultures.

Downloads

Vereinbarung über die jährliche Vergabe eines Hamburger Lehrpreises (Hamburg Teaching Prize award agreement [PDF])