Grants - UvA Teaching and Learning Centres (TLC)

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 for the grants will open on 1 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 2025-2026 is Reimagining Assessment. Read more about the TLC Didactic Innovation grant.

Grassroots and Grassroots+

Grassroots are small-scale, accessible grants in which teachers and/or students enrich and enhance 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 develop their initiative more broadly within the UvA. Read more about the Grassroots grants.

UvA grants and external funds

The network of UvA Teaching and Learning Centres is happy to help lecturers find suitable grants and subsidy programmes in the field of educational innovation. See here which other subsidy programmes are available both within and outside the UvA.