The ¡®Fellowships for Innovations in Digital University Teaching in Thuringia¡¯ have been awarded by the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (TMBWK) together with the Stifterverband since 2018. The teaching fellowships are once again intended to provide impetus for the development and testing of digitally supported teaching and examination formats or the redesign of modules with the consistent use of digital technologies. The programme also addresses the exchange of (digital) university teaching by networking the fellowships and aims to perpetuate digital university teaching in the universities themselves.

For funding from 1 September 2026, up to nine fellowships will again be awarded in this programme. The nine fellowships consist of four individual fellowships, each worth up to €50,000, and up to five tandem fellowships, each worth up to €60,000.? The call for applications is aimed at lecturers working at state-funded universities in the Free State of Thuringia, with the exception of doctoral students without teaching duties and lecturers. The duration of the projects is 16 months (01.09.2026 - 31.12.2027).

Applications for project funding can only be submitted via the university management (with the consent of the faculties and the Digital University Office). When preparing the application, we recommend that you take advantage of the advice offered by the Digital University Office (Contact person: Dr. Anna Svet). Please submit complete applications in electronic form to?ale@uni-jena.de by 10 a.m. on 07 April 2026 (internal university application deadline). The ALe office will review the applications and forward them to the respective faculty for internal review. Applicants will be informed by the ALe of any further steps that may be necessary. The applications will be collected by the university management and sent to the Stifterverband by 24 April 2026.

For interested applicants, the Stifterverband is offering an information event (online) on Tuesday, 16 March 2026, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm, at which detailed information about the programme, the application modalities and selection criteria will be provided. Participants will have the opportunity to clarify their questions. To participate in the event, registration via the websiteExternal link is required by 13 March 2026.

Further information on the process and the fellows who have received funding to date can be found at https://www.stifterverband.org/digital-lehrfellows-thueringen.External link

Click on this link to find out more about the teaching fellows at Friedrich Schiller University Jena who have received funding to date.

Previous tenders were as follows:

• Network Focus 2026 ¨C Strengthening networks as drivers of innovation
• The world is my campus
• 'Freiraum 2026' - Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
• 'Lehrarchitektur.' Shaping the university of the future
• 'Freiraum 2025' ¨C Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
• 'Freiraum 2023' ¨C Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
• 'Fokus Portale/Fokus Netzwerke' ¨C Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
• 'Freiraum 2022' ¨C Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
• Empowering University Teaching through Digitalisation

Previous tenders were as follows:

• eTeach free spaces in the eTeaching Network Thuringia
• Cooperative impulse projects in the eTeach network Thuringia 2024
• Cooperative impulse projects in the eTeach network Thuringia 2023
• Cooperative impulse projects in the eTeach network Thuringia 2022

Previous tenders in this area were as follows:

• Ars legendi prize for excellent university teaching 2025
• Ars legendi prize for excellent university teaching 2024
• Ars legendi prize for excellent university teaching 2023
• Ars legendi Faculty prize in Medicine
• Ars legendi Faculty prize in Mathematics and Natural science

Previous tenders in this area were as follows:

• Fellowships for Innovations in digital University Teaching 2025/26
• Fellowships for Innovations in digital University Teaching 2024/25
• Fellowships for Innovations in digital University Teaching 2023/24
• Fellowships for Innovations in digital University Teaching 2022/23
• Fellowships for Innovations in digital University Teaching 2021/22

Previous tenders in this area were as follows:

• MINTchallenge 2026
• MINTchallenge: expertise in sustainable development
• SMART qualifies 2022: MINT for digital world
• SMART qualifies: MINTplus - plusMINT

Previous tenders were as follows:

• Digital Education Area - FMER announcement on the development of a digital education platform
• Promotion of artificial intelligence in higher education (federal-state initiative)

Previous tenders were as follows:

• German Employer Award for Education 2025
• Futureversities: Strengthening universities as drivers of social transformation
• Data Literacy Learning Steps (Stifterverband)
• AI-Campus searches Teaching Fellows?
• Employer award for education 2022
• Room laboratories - Stifterverband and Dieter Schwarz Stiftung (Stifterverband)
• DigitalChangeMaker Fellowships (Stifterverband)
• 'Kolleg Didaktik:digital': Junior Fellwoships of the Joachim Hertz Stiftung
• Curricula of the future