Grants for educational innovation
TLC Central supports UvA educators and employees from all faculties in educational innovation through the offering of various grants in collaboration with the TLC Network, ICTS and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). Each grant has a focus on innovation with its own theme or topic. Do you have an idea that allows you to innovate your classes, or a creative solution for a better educational environment? Do you need support to bring this idea or solution to life? Then find out which grant best suits your innovation idea.
The application deadline for the grants has passed. The next round will be in December 2025.
Which grant suits your idea?
TLC Didactic Innovation Grant
The TLC Didactic Innovation Grant supports you in finding innovative solutions for your didactic challenges. These solutions can contribute to behaviour change, engagement, and knowledge transfer in education. The theme for 2024-2025 is Student Engaged Learning. Read more about the TLC Didactic Innovation grant.
Theme grant: Responsible AI
AI offers many opportunities in education, both for students and teachers. However, its use entails many ethical issues. The Institutional Plan theme grant ‘Responsible AI: teaching and learning with AI’ supports UvA teachers and staff in enhancing and/or creating an educational environment by incorporating ethical AI technologies. Read more about this Responsible AI grant.
Grassroots and Grassroots+: educational innovation with ICT
Grassroots are small-scale, accessible projects in which teachers and/or students enrich, enhance, and/or intensify education using an ICT application. Grassroots+ is available for teachers who have previously innovated their teaching with a promising ICT application through an educational grant and wish to apply their initiative more broadly within the UvA. Read more about the Grassroots grants.
Bits of Innovation video series
The video series Bits of Innovation: the story behind the Grassroots grant follows three UvA teachers who improve their teaching with the support of an UvA TLC Grassroots grant. In this three-part interview series, you’ll get a impression of these inspiring teacher as they fully develop their ideas. We dive into the world of cockroaches, tooth extraction and social city maps.
Keen to discover the story of these teachers?
Get inspired by stories from colleagues with grants!
Curious about the innovative projects that your colleagues have worked on through a grant? Read their stories below or under Teacher Stories.
Bits of Innovation: the story behind the Grassroots grant
In the video series Bits of Innovation: the story behind the Grassroots grant, we follow 3 UvA teachers who want to improve their teaching with a UvA TLC Grassroots grant.
The fifth FRIS café: a growing community
On Thursday, June 28, we gathered for what was already the fifth FRIS cafe. These six-weekly gatherings provide grantees of the Fair, Resilient & Inclusive Societies (FRIS) theme grant the opportunity to come together, share ideas and get inspired.
Development of ‘World Food and Ecosystems’ course: three necessary skills for (big) data collection
Lies Jacobs (FNWI) used the TLC Didactic Innovation grant to focus on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection. She was awarded the grant in the 2021-2022 academic year to further develop the course ‘World Food and Ecosystems’. With the grant she focussed on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection: building self-confidence, essential coding skills and digital independence.
Best practices of knowledge sharing among students from diverse backgrounds
A search by Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili with the UvA TLC Didactic Innovation grant. How can we train students from different backgrounds and majors to share their disciplinary knowledge in an accessible way? Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili (they/them) used the grant to explore the best practices of knowledge sharing among students from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
Future Societies Lab: addressing sustainability issues
Dr. Mendel Giezen developed the Future Societies Lab with the TLC-IIS Sustainability grant. A course in which students work on research questions on sustainability from society clients. A win-win for different parties for the benefit of societal sustainability transformations.
Ongoing Grassroots
Read more about all the ongoing Grassroots.
FRIS projects
Read more about all the FRIS projects.