eTeach free spaces

The "eTeach Freiräume" format offers the opportunity to further develop your own teaching and learning formats. You will receive funding, to further develop your course in terms of methodology and didactics, enrich your teaching materials or introduce digital media. The focus of these further developments is on improving learning success and the acquisition of skills by students as well as better accessibility to the course.

More time for fresh teaching and learning!

The "eTeach free spaces" are open to all teachers at Thuringian universities who are responsible for designing curricula or organizing a course. The funding includes the creation of teaching/learning materials, audio/video production for learning and teaching, the creation of course rooms, the introduction of new methods as well as media and digital tools or teaching-related advice, teaching coaching or shadowing. The funding primarily serves to further develop your teaching.

The processing of your experiences should be suitable for providing other teachers with access: We invite you to present your results in one of our networking and exchange formats. These include, among others Talks@eTeachthe workshop "Im Dialog" or the annual eTeach conference. The funded projects are publicized on the eTeach Network Thuringia website and, where appropriate, in other media.

One application can be submitted per person per year. The funding of a maximum of EUR 3000 can be used to cover the costs of contracts, teaching assignments (including travel and accommodation costs), the procurement of teaching/learning materials or the costs of student assistants.

Applications can be submitted until October 15 for the following year. Please coordinate the idea of your application with your eTeach contact point before submitting it. In addition to a comprehensible presentation, the basis for this is the Funding guideline specified funding criteria. Funding recipients will receive a funding notification by December 15. To apply, please use the online form on this website. All options and framework conditions are summarized in the Funding guideline summarized.

Registration for the WS 24/25 is closed.

Write down your idea in an application!

1 Applicant:in
How are you involved in the further development of the course/curriculum? If possible, please state your function (course supervisor, module supervisor, ...).
Give your project a short, meaningful title.
Describe the objectives to be achieved by the further development. Describe the extent to which the acquisition of subject-specific and interdisciplinary skills is supported and / or the learning success is improved and / or the accessibility of the course is increased.
Describe the intended changes to the course. In doing so, go into didactic, methodological, media-technological and/or structural changes.
What transfer possibilities do you see for the results of the further development in other areas of application and contexts? How can the results be used by other teachers (other contexts, across universities)?
Briefly describe how students are involved in the design, development, testing and evaluation.
Briefly describe the implementation period. When is it intended to anchor the results of the further development in regular study operations?
Please create a plan for the use of funds that makes the calculation of the costs comprehensible. If possible, justify the necessity and briefly describe the tasks associated with the assignment.

Further information:

  • The maximum funding amount per application is 3,000 euros
  • For contracts: Specify type of contract (contract for work, ...), costs and duration
  • For teaching assignments: Brief calculation by specifying the teaching hours to be hours of teaching and the hourly rate per hour of teaching, if necessary Calculation of travel and accommodation costs if required
  • For material resources: Name, use in the project and brief justification of the necessity necessity and costs (gross in euros) (no financing of basic equipment possible). basic equipment possible)
  • In the case of student assistants: A concise calculation by specifying the number of hours for employment and hourly rate (observe current university requirements)
The application has been coordinated with the eTeach contact point. In the case of a planned reduction in teaching load, this has been approved by the responsible office.

These are our funded projects.

eTeach free spaces 2025

Interactive self-learning materials for sustainable, internationally oriented environmental technology teaching - implementation of the flipped classroom approach

Applicant: Dr. Ing. Paul Engelke

Digital inclusion and rehabilitation of people with physical, mental, intellectual and sensory disabilities through gaming approaches

Applicant: Dr. med. Stefan Kunde-Siegel

"Colonial educational institutions" - blended learning units on the topic of German colonialism

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Diana Düring

Interdisciplinary innovation in energy research - further development of a module into a cross-university course

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Ing. Dirk Westermann

Transformation in the physics practical course: Optimal support for data analysis and discussion of results!

Applicant: Dr. Anke Sander

Teaching profession meets Lego. Collaborative digital education projects in elementary school

Applicant: Dr. Dagmar Brand

Development of the online course "Logical argumentation"

Applicant:in: Matthias Rickes

Inverted classroom concept to improve science practicals (InvertedPrakt)

Applicant: Dr. Birgit Hoffmann

Playing Knowledge. An accessible set of cards to play, discuss and pass on.

Applicant: Junior Professor Dr. Ing. Dorothee Rummel

Simulative learning and teaching as an innovative approach in distance learning programs.

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Bärbel Dangel

Short self-study elements in the online curative education course to increase learning success

Applicant: Dr. Andrea Kenkmann

Creation of short films with students that present various fields of social work in practice.

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Cordula Borbe

eTeach free spaces 2024

Creation of two digital self-study units on the topics of participatory research and evaluation methods for interviews.

Applicant: Dr. Andrea Kenkmann

Diversity matters - Conceptualization of an innovative interdisciplinary elective (partial) module on the topic of "anti-discrimination" at the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena

Applicant: Angelika Roschka

Lego Technic in the world of mechanism and gear technology

Applicant: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Griebel

DigiSYNTech - digital media for chemistry lectures

Applicant: Dr. rer. nat. Eric Täuscher

Interactive learning brochure for the course "Positivity in the practical semester and teaching profession".

Applicant: PD Dr. habil. Benjamin Dreer-Göthe

Moocs course on the topic of "AI and e-commerce".

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Dirk Schmalzried

Toolbox: Mobile workshop

Applicant: Prof. Frank Bauer

Consolidation of current research results in the teaching of the mechanics of compliant systems.

Applicant: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lena Zentner

Creation of two digital self-study units on the topics of participatory research and evaluation methods for interviews.

Applicant: Dr. Andrea Kenkmann

Life cycle analysis as a tool in the design between analytical and generative process

Applicant: Prof. Oliver Sachse

Digital Playbook I Module "Stress management through mindfulness"

Applicant: Dr. Sabine Brunner 

eTeach free spaces 2023

Flipped classroom with the ICF / ICF on demand: Creating videos as teaching and learning material with students for flipped classrooms.

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Andreas Seidel

Seminar with public symposium on "Accessibility of social benefits and social services" as a teaching-learning project in hybrid format.

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka

Advanced professional practice in health care@Thuringia (APP@Thüringen)

Applicant: Prof. Dr. habil. Susanne Saal

E-portfolio as a didactic intervention in practical study phases

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Renate von der Heyden

Seminar with public symposium on "Accessibility of social benefits and social services" as a teaching-learning project in a hybrid format

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Felix Wilke

Hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling. Multimodal sensory education in the academic primary qualification of midwives

Applicant: Kristin Rammel

Creation of podcasts as short learning objectives of a lecture

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Christoph Koch

Media pedagogical orientation of the introduction to childhood research

Applicant: Dr. Dagmar Brand

Inverted classroom for action concepts in social work

Applicant: Prof. Dr. Cordula Borbe

Important documents for your application.

Thank you for sending the application

Our next steps

  1. Review by the eTeach contact point, final approval if necessary
  2. Selection by the coordination of the eTeach network Thuringia
  3. Information to beneficiaries by the end of the year
  4. Start of funding in the following year

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