Pedagogical Awards 2012

Information about the Prize

Uppsala University annually awards five pedagogical prizes for outstanding contributions within education at basic level as well as advanced level.

The prizes of SEK 20 000 each will be awarded at the Ceremonial Installation of Professors in November.

Four of the prizes are allocated for teachers in the following fields;

Theology, Humanities and Educational Sciences
Law and Social Sciences
Medicine and Pharmacy
Mathematics, Science and Technology

The fifth prize is awarded to pedagogical contributions within a particularly prioritized field chosen and announced annually. This prize is called The Independent Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2012 the prioritized field is Peer-cooperation and Exchange of Ideas. For more information on such as criterias click here.

How to Nominate?

Deadline for nominations to the pedagogical awards for 2012 was the 30th of March 2012. The laureates are chosen at the 29th of May 2012. The laureates will then receive their prizes in November at the Ceremonial Installation of Professors. The nominationform is closed.

To choose laureates we need to know how your nominee works within the categories of nomination described below. Descriptions of all four categories is by no means mandatory, it does however give the drafting committee a more comprehensive picture of how your nominee fulfills the requirements for the award.

The categories of nomination

More information

For further information about the Pedagogical Awards, please contact info@pu.uu.se