Grassroots grants
Have you thought about how you can improve your teaching through the use of ICT? Do you have an idea for a project? A Grassroots grant can help you develop and implement this idea. You can choose between a Regular Grassroots or a Grassroots+. Both grants are small-scale, accessible projects where teachers and/or students experiment with an ICT application to enrich and improve education. Additionally, you will receive support in sharing knowledge and further adoption of your idea within the UvA.
Regular Grassroots focuses on a single course. Grassroots+ is cross-disciplinary. The next application round starts on 1 December 2025.
For more information, please contact Sjoukje Kerman (Projectmanager Educational Development TLC Central).
Find current and past Grassroots projects on the archive page.
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.
Grassroots: playground for ICT applications that improve education
Medical educators Franka Luk and Jaqueline Houting are seasoned ‘Grassrooters’. They talk about their exciting ICT applications and development experiences.
Grassroots: how you can still offer knowledge clips with limited resources and time
Through knowledge clips, teaching material is offered in an interactive way and the flipped classroom principle is applied.
Grassroots grant: Geoanimations
Geoanimations, a powerful interactive didactic online tool for Physical Geography. Gotze van Kalsbeek explains how geoanimations, supported by a Grassroots grant, have contributed to education.
Chalkless Lectures
A digital solution to the drawback of chalk-/whiteboards.
Teacher Story: Paul Dijstelberge
Grassroots project: putting creative city of Amsterdam (1520-1800) on the (digital) map.
Teacher Story: Erwin van Vliet
Grassroots project: online learning platform Perusall – every student prepared for every lecture.