Faculty Teaching Award for the student representation of the KIT Department of Informatics

The informatics student council receives the KIT 2021 Faculty Teaching Award for its commitment to students and first-year students. In the course of the Corona pandemic, the active members of the student council have made it possible for first-year students to find their way well into the new and different everyday university life with a digital O-phase. For the students of the higher semesters, the student council members have, for example, set up a corona-compliant exam sale and offered a variety of support options for the current challenges.

Therefore, the Faculty Teaching Award this year deservedly goes to our student council. Congratulations

Since 2007, the KIT Presidium has awarded the Faculty Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching. The Faculty Teaching Award is a visible sign to emphasize the high value of teaching at KIT. The Faculty Teaching Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded annually in the eleven faculties. The prize is awarded at the annual celebration. The prize can be awarded to individuals or working groups or also to organisational units of the faculty responsible for teaching, whose courses are distinguished in particular by new forms of teaching and learning, interdisciplinarity, high topicality of the imparted specialist knowledge or research- and application-oriented teaching modules. The explicit introduction and involvement of students in (large-scale) research projects, in line with the guiding principle "Teaching follows research", or contributions that pay particular attention to the teaching of key qualifications for the holistic competence and personality development of students are also eligible for the award.