Award for interdisciplinary teaching
Athene Prize for Good Teaching 2023: Special prize for interdisciplinary teaching for Prof Michèle Knodt and Lucas Flath
2023/11/28
Clean Circles researchers Prof Michèle Knodt and Lucas Flath, together with colleagues from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, receive the Athene Prize for Good Teaching from the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation in the interdisciplinary teaching category. The prize was awarded for innovative and interdisciplinary team teaching on energy transformation with a specially programmed serious game/energy transition game.
The special prize for interdisciplinary teaching, worth 5,000 euros, which was awarded to Professor Michèle Knodt and Lucas Flath from the Department of History and Social Sciences, Professor Florian Steinke and Jonas Hülsmann as well as Professor Stefan Niessen and Pascal Friedrich from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (etit), honours the course “Energiewende gestalten”: It offers students of political science and engineering a broadening of horizons for the socially highly relevant and complex topic of the energy transition and also fulfils the criteria of good interdisciplinary teaching, according to the jury's statement. The innovative approach combines a lecture part, a seminar part and a practical part. In the practical part, students apply the knowledge they have acquired in a specially programmed serious game and learn about the mechanisms of the energy transition in a fun way.
The award
The Athene Prize for Good Teaching has been awarded annually since 2010 to individuals, groups of people or organisational units in a subject or study area.
Nominations for the prize relate to best practice models and can recognise concepts, measures, projects, courses, personal commitment, procedures or other approaches in the field of teaching. Individuals or groups from all qualification levels – from students to professors – can be nominated.
The Athena Prizes for Good Teaching are endowed with a total of 46,000 euros. One prize is awarded in each faculty and one main prize is awarded from all faculty prizes. The TU Darmstadt Senate Teaching Committee forms the central jury for the special prizes under the leadership of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity.
All prizes honour academic teaching at TU Darmstadt.
