International Higher Education Teacher Award ^2024/25

The call is addressed to individuals or groups of individuals officially involved (with formal agreement) in the teaching process at state recognised/accredited higher education institutions in the consortium partner countries.

The applications should present good practices in accordance with the categories of this call. The practice should have been implemented or being in process with justified outputs in the following academic years: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, fall term of 2024/25.

This call for application will be open until 17.00 CET, 10th December 2024. Applications should be submitted with the approval of the superior of the applicant (e.g. head of department/institution, [vice-]dean, [vice-]rector, etc.) by the above deadline, using the application platform directly on award.profformance.eu.

1. Before applying, read thoroughly all the materials of the call, especially the evaluation form, to see the main priorities of the call and the evaluation criteria.
2. Fill the Application form and upload all the requested forms.
3. The final score will be calculated upon the sum of points given by two independent experts based on the evaluation criteria. The consortium partners will decide the final list of awardees based on the scores and the quantity and quality of the applications.

If you have any questions about the application process, feel free to reach out to award.profformance@tpf.hu.

The awardees

• will have the opportunity to present their best practices at the final event of the PROFFORMANCE+ project and at various international professional forums,
• will receive the PROFFORMANCE teaching excellence prize with a certificate, and will become members of the PROFFORMANCE professional network. Please note that no financial compensation is offered.

Awardees’ best practices

• will be presented in diverse publications, newsletters, websites including profformance.eu.
• will be available at the - PROFFORMANCE Teaching Excellence Database.

The PROFFORMANCE+ consortium announces PROFFORMANCE Contest for Institutional Teaching Excellence as an additional contest among institutions in the PROFFORMANCE+ partner countries (Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary and Serbia).

The aim of the Contest for Higher Education Institutions to get PROFFORMANCE Label of Teaching Excellence is multifold:

1. To promote and give publicity and visibility to those institutions, where there are the most good practices to share with the wide public.
2. To acknowledge efforts of higher education institutions for promoting and encouraging their teachers to submit their applications to the PROFFORMANCE – International Higher Education Teacher Award 2024/25
3. To make teachers’ good practices of teaching excellence visible for the leadership and management of higher education institutions.
4. To encourage higher education institutions to organize their own teacher awards in order to promote, identify, recognise good practices within the institutions.

State recognised/accredited higher education institutions in the PROFFORMANCE+ partner countries (Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary and Serbia).

Institutions from which at least 1 application arrives to the PROFFORMANCE Higher Education Teacher Award 2024/25 are automatically participate in the Contest for Institutional Teaching Excellence, winners of labels will be selected based on the number and quality of applications.
Institutions do not need to and not having the possibility to directly apply.They can influence their results = number of great applications, by encouraging and promoting their teachers or teams to apply with an existing good practice of teaching excellence.

The winning higher education institutions of the first PROFFORMANCE Contest for Institutional Teaching Excellence will be rewarded the PROFFORMANCE Label of Teaching Excellence and will be given the opportunity to:

1. Get PROFFORMANCE Label of Teaching Excellence certificate issued by the PROFFORMANCE+ consortium.
2. Will be communicated in the PROFFORMANCE website, LinkedIn, newsletter, partners’ webpages.
3. Will be communicated in partners’ newsletters – like Academic Cooperation Association, European Students’ Union, etc.
4. Will be announced at the final event of the PROFFORMANCE+ project.
5. Will be given the opportunity to provide a presentation at events of the PROFFORMANCE+ consortium about their success factors to be excellent in teaching and learning.
6. To be published in different events, platforms and products of PROFFORMANCE + consortium.