This year, the best teaching concept (€2,500) will be honoured with the general teaching award and the themed teaching award focusing on "Teaching and learning culture in times of AI" (€2,500) . Two outstanding teaching concepts were selected for the Teaching Awards 2025 from the nominations received.

Based on the quality of all the nominations received, the ALe panel of experts initially agreed on a shortlist in each case. These were as follows:

Shortlist General Teaching Award:

• Prof Dr Delia Brauer with the course|class "Applied Glass Technology and Glass Industry Excursions"
• Dr Manuel Robert Quaschner with the course|class "Linear Algebra I"
• Dr Antje Rauers with the course|class "Out of the box: Development of an intervention to reduce negative age stereotypes"

Shortlist Topic-related teaching award:

• Dr Manuel Robert Quaschner with the course|class "Linear Algebra I"

General teaching award

The prize for the best course concept (€2,500) goes to Dr Antje Rauers ( Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) for the (block) seminar "Out of the box: Developing an intervention to reduce negative age stereotypes".

The reasons for the selection are as follows:

With her seminar, Dr Rauers impressively succeeds in transferring theoretical content into practical application scenarios and specifically promoting a wide range of student competencies. The seminar is thus an outstanding example of application-oriented university teaching in the master's programme. The focus is on developing psychological intervention concepts to reduce negative age stereotypes - a socially highly relevant topic that is often neglected in public discourse. The students work in a didactically very well-structured scenario that is characterised by a high degree of authenticity: They respond to a simulated job advertisement for a fictitious client institution, develop their own intervention programmes in small groups, present these to a 'selection committee' and reflect on their concepts at the end.
In addition to applying psychological theories and empirical findings, students strengthen their conceptual, communicative and argumentative skills. One of the reasons for this is the consistent support of the learning process through methodically diverse exercises and soft skills units - for example on feedback, professional presentation and creativity techniques. The students' appreciation of this course should also be emphasised: The seminar was not only didactically excellently structured, but also motivating, practical and highly conducive to learning.

Further information on this General Teaching Award of the Friedrich Schiller University 2025.