Prize for Internationalisation

Aim

With this award, the University of Erfurt wants to acknowledge the commitment of university members who have made an outstanding contribution to internationalisation. Currently eligible for the award are international projects that have already been launched and have a particular impact on the university campus, as well as tried-and-tested cross-border formats for cooperation in teaching and research. The overall aim is to consolidate and implement international study content or formats in the long term, thereby raising the university's profile in a national and international context. 

The following measures and projects are particularly recommended:

  1. Projects to strengthen international partnerships in order to increase the international mobility of students, researchers, lecturers and other staff (e.g. Erasmus exchanges, internships abroad, networking of individual activities)
     
  2. Projects to internationalise teaching (e.g. running international summer schools, designing preparatory measures for international students, developing international degree programmes or international components in existing degree programmes)
     
  3. Projects to internationalise research (e.g. attracting excellent (young) researchers from abroad, acquiring third-party funding projects, organising international conferences at the University of Erfurt)
     
  4. Projects to expand digital or hybrid cooperation/internationalisation formats in academic teaching
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Call for nominations & procedure

The prize may be awarded to one or more individuals. University members, faculties and central institutions may submit nominations or apply themselves. In addition, the Student Council may submit nominations. Individual applications must be accompanied by at least one letter of recommendation, which should not be written by someone from the same department.

The deadline for nominations is 30 September 2025.

The nomination deadline has been extended until 10 October 2025.

The prize money is €3,000 for first place and €2,000 for second place. It can be used for international projects in teaching and research and is intended to provide targeted support for existing activities or new international collaborations. 

The commitment to internationalisation should be adequately demonstrated in the application form.

The Senate Committee for International Affairs will make a preliminary selection and propose the winners to the Presidium. The prize will be awarded by the Vice-President for International Affairs.

Call for applications 2025 available for download

Winners of the Internationalisation Award 2025

One of the awards went to the project ”Schule in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft: Schweden und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Schools in an Immigrant Society: A Comparison of Sweden and Germany) – a collaboration between Professor Agnes Pfrang, Dr Lisa Sauer and Judith Preiß from the Faculty of Education and Stockholm University. Another prize went to Professor Myriam Wijllens and Yeshica Umaña Calderón from the Faculty of Catholic Theology for the Studium Fundamentale seminar “Wellbeing of the Child”.

further information

Previous winners

Winners of the 2022/23 competition

Winners of the 2020/21 competition

Winners of the first Internationalisation Award 2019

Target group

The target group is all professors and research assistants who demonstrate or have demonstrated a high level of commitment to the internationalisation of the University of Erfurt.

Criteria

  1. To what extent does the project/measure make a noticeable contribution to the internationalisation goals of the University of Erfurt in line with its internationalisation strategy (important: Internationalisation@Home)? 
     
  2. To what extent does the project/measure also open up/maintain prospects for establishing the internationalisation goals pursued in the long term? In other words, can positive effects in line with the internationalisation strategy be expected in the medium to long term? 
     
  3. How strong is the project's impact beyond the immediate project participants on the university community, i.e. on research and teaching at the University of Erfurt itself, including across disciplines/interdisciplinary, either through direct project participation or through its impact on a larger university audience? 
     
  4. How strong is the project's impact beyond the UE, i.e. does it strengthen the UE's visibility at national or even international level, e.g. in the form of cooperation, but also in the form of outreach to non-university areas?

Contact

Prof. Dr. Beate Hampe
Vice President for International Affairs
(Presidium)
C23 – staff building 1 / 606
+49 361 737-4341
vpi@uni-erfurt.de