The FH Salzburg Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching skills, dedication to students' success, and innovative teaching methods. Students are invited to nominate their favourite courses.
The award has been presented annually since 2023, with a prize money totalling per call over € 5,000, and honours outstanding teaching skills at the FH Salzburg. The winners of the Teaching Award.
FH Salzburg awards the Teaching Award annually. Lecturers who have received at least five student nominations AND have been nominated by at least 20 % of the enrolled students are eligible to submit. The evaluation and selection process takes into account criteria such as student-centredness, the course structure, innovative teaching and learning formats, research- or practice-led teaching, and the overall impression.
The call for submissions for the Teaching Award 2027 (courses from the summer semester 2026 and/or the winter semester 2026/27 and/or summer semester 2027) will follow shortly.
Dear students, please nominate your favourite courses!
Students of FH Salzburg can select "Nominate this course for the FH Salzburg Teaching Award” (item no. 9) on the course evaluation form (online) during the evaluation period.
The evaluation for each course will be open as soon as the course is about to start its last quarter. End of evaluation period: summer semester 2026 on12 July 2026, winter semester on 07 February 2027, summer semester 2027 on 11 July 2027.
For any questions, suggestions and comments, please contact rektorat@fh-salzburg.ac.at.
Winners of the FH Salzburg Teaching Award
Teaching Award 2024
The jury reviewed 15 submissions in detail and shortlisted six, three of which were honoured on 19 November 2024:
- The winner (First place) of the Teaching Award 2024 is Jakob Christensen from the Department of Creative Technologies, for his particularly student-centred teaching concept in the subject ‘3D Introduction’.
- Second place went to external lecturer - and graduate - Sofie Suntinger from the Department of Health Sciences for the subject ‘English in the Professional Field of Orthoptics’.
- Third place in this year's Teaching Award went to Andreas Bilke from the Department of Creative Technologies. He competed with an overall concept for two courses, ‘Algorithms and Data Structures’ and ‘Introduction to Programming’, for which he pursued a similar didactic approach, that of the so-called ‘inverted’ or ‘flipped classroom’.
Teaching Award 2023
A total of 8 teaching concepts made it onto the shortlist. At the award ceremony, three winning projects (1st to 3rd place) and a Honour Award were awarded. The award recognises outstanding teaching by allowing lecturers to present their didactic concepts and share their way of teaching with the jury as well as with all other lecturers, which enables mutual learning. And, of course, the students also benefit from the innovative teaching.
- 1st place: Thomas Michael Haug, course „Modelle der Salutogenese in der Gesundheitsbildung“
- 2nd place: Stefan Wegenkittl, Martin Uray, Maximilian Jakob Schirl and Clemens Havas, course „Machine Learning“
- 3rd place: Maria Siller, course „Grundlagen der Logistik“ AND Ulrike Pichler, course „Neuroorthoptik“
- Honour Award: Günter Berger, "Nachhaltigen Exkursion“
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