Teaching Prize of the University of Münster

The Teaching Prize of the University of Münster is awarded in every odd-numbered year. Its purpose is to emphasise the particular importance of university teaching. It distinguishes instructors of the University of Münster who display above-average commitment and exemplary achievement in teaching. With the Teaching Prize, the University of Münster wishes to strengthen high-quality teaching as one of the University's central criteria.

The award comes with 30,000 euros in prize money which may be divided up between multiple winners. The prize money serves to continue improving instruction at the University of Münster.

The Teaching Prize is awarded to a member of the academic staff – also, on occasion, a representative of a team – for outstanding and innovative achievements in teaching, examinations, advising and supervising students, specifically for:

  • developing, implementing and carrying out curricula and curricular elements (modules, courses)
  • developing and successfully employing teaching and learning materials
  • developing and implementing innovative examination methods
  • developing and implementing innovative advising and supervising concepts
  • other measures which improve the quality of study and teaching

In addition to excellent didactics and teaching quality, a crucial criterion for receiving the prize is the extent to which the prizewinner's accomplishments in his/her own courses can provide impulses for the development of university teaching on the whole.

The current call for proposals of the Teaching Prize is published in the University's Intranet. If you require further information, please contact Birgit Hennecke.

Recipients of recent years

Year Recipients Subject area Further information
2023 Dr Petra Lütke Faculty of Geosciences

Video Teaching Prize 2023

Newsportal

2023 Prof Dr Jens Niebaum
Prof Dr Ricarda Vulpius

Faculty of History and Philosophy

Video Teaching Prize 2023

Newsportal

2021 Dr Markus Holling
Pascal Kockwelp
Dr Anna Junga
Prof Dr Benjamin Risse

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Geoinformatics

Video Teaching Prize 2021

Newsportal

2019

Dr Matthias Freise

Institute for Political Science

Video Teaching Prize 2019

Newsportal

2017 "Limette" compentency based medical education (CBME) Faculty of Medicine

Video Teaching Prize 2017

Newsportal

2015 PharMSchool Pharma Campus

Newsportal

PharMSchool

2013

Prof Dr Kornelia Möller, Cornelia Sunder
Prof Dr Manfred Holodynski, Christina Hellermann, Bernadette

Dept. for General Science Didactics,
Institute for Psychology in Education and Teacher Training

Newsportal

Teaching project "Video-Based Teaching Analysis"

2011 Unirep:
Volker Reuschenbach
Prof Heinrich Dörner
Faculty of Law Newsportal
2009

Prof Dr Gereon Heuft

Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Newsportal
2009 Prof Dr Annette Zimmer Institute for Political Science Newsportal
2007 Prof Dr Klaus Backhaus Institute for System Technologies (IAS)  
2007 Dr Christoph Brox Institute of Geoinformatics  
2006 Dr Uwe Peter Kanning Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences  
2005 Dr Bernhard Marschall Faculty of Medicine  
2004 Prof Dr Werner Kuhn Faculty of Geosciences  
2003 Prof Dr Jens Leker Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy  
2002 Prof Dr Bruno Moerschbacher Faculty of Biology  
2002 Project on Computer-Aided University Teaching (cHL)
Project director: Prof Dr Heinz-Lothar Grob
School of Business and Economics  
2001 Prof Dr Dr Klaus Langmann Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science  
2001 Dr Wolfgang Marhold
Prof Dr Bernd Schröder
Faculty of Protestant Theology