Responsible AI grant
TLC Central (UvA Teaching & Learning Centres) is working on various themes within educational innovation with the Institution Plan (IP) Theme grant, in collaboration with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). The theme of the grant changes every year. Are you an UvA educator or employee and do you have an idea that may improve education that fits the theme? Then you can apply for the grant.
The next application round of the IP Theme grant is expected to start in December 2024 or January 2025.
Teaching and learning with AI
The IP Theme grant ‘Responsible AI: teaching and learning with AI’ supports UvA educators and employees in improving and/or creating educational environments by experimenting and ethically integrate GenAI applications in their teaching. Human welfare, fairness, transparency, privacy and accountability are at the forefront of it, to contribute to a more inclusive and stimulating learning environment for students.
Responsible AI grant for pioneers
AI offers many opportunities to both students and educators. In doing so, its use raises many ethical questions. Do you have an innovative idea for the responsible incorporation of an AI technology in your lessons or learning environment? And would you like to experiment with it? Then apply for the Responsible AI grant and seize the chance to be part of a pioneering innovation that shapes the future of education.
Within this theme, we are seeking proposals in the following categories:
- Content delivery: how can GenAI support teachers in delivering learning material more effectively?
- Assessment and feedback: how can the ethical use of GenAI be integrated into the assessment and feedback process?
- Teacher-student interaction: how can GenAI enhance teacher-student interaction?
- Learning activities: what novel in-class and other learning activities can be designed to improve the learning process?
- Free theme: what other uses can GenAI have in teaching in university education?
The Responsible AI grant gives you financial and other support
The Responsible AI grant is organized by TLC Central in collaboration with IIS and gives you financial and other support in innovating and experimenting with ethical GenAI applications. You get the opportunity to think up solutions to your teaching problem and test them.
You can submit an innovation proposal related to the theme ‘Responsible AI: teaching and learning with AI’. Each approved proposal will receive a maximum of € 2,000 per teacher involved. The Responsible AI grant is organized by TLC and IIS and provides support in various ways. It gives you the opportunity to think up solutions to your teaching problem and test them.
Practical information
- You are an educator/employee or a team of educators/employees of one or more subjects at the UvA and have a role in their development.
- You find it interesting to be involved in educational innovation.
- You are willing to share your knowledge and inspire others.
- You have an appointment at the UvA for at least 0.5 fte for the duration of the project.
- You have permission from your supervisor to spend hours on this project.
The following criteria will be used in the selection of applications:
- Contributes convincingly to the objective of the grant: improve the learning process/experience of students in your teaching, through a didactic innovation.
- Quality of the proposal. We assess the justification, the relationship between learning objectives and learning outcomes and the plan of approach.
- The feasibility of the project within the timeframe.
- Relevance to educational practice within the university.
- Teaching experience and background of the applicant(s).
- Distribution of applications across different courses/faculties.
- Measurability of the expected improvement.
- There are 10 grants per academic year.
- The applicant completes the application form.
- If the grant is awarded, the applicant must be able to demonstrate that their department head or supervisor will allow them sufficient time to carry out the project.
- The application is evaluated by a committee consisting of experts from various faculties, composed by TLC/IIS.
- After approval of the application, an intake interview.
- During the course of the project, TLC/IIS organizes meetings and coaching, according to the needs of the recipients of the grant.
- Upon completion, the project is evaluated together with TLC/IIS. The results will be shared within the UvA and possibly included in a publication.
- The last application round of this grant ran from 8 February to 15 March 2024. As an applicant, you will be notified via email around 8 April about the awarding of the grant.
- The IP Theme grant can be applied for annually.
- The next application round of the IP Theme grant is expected to start in December 2024 or January 2025.
More information
The Responsible AI grant is organized by TLC Central (UvA Teaching & Learning Centres) in collaboration with IIS. TLC Central is part of the TLC Network consisting of seven faculty teams and a central team within the University of Amsterdam.
Together, the TLC’s provide support to UvA educators in the areas of professional development, education innovation and knowledge sharing.
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) is the expertise centre of the UvA in the field of interdisciplinary learning and teaching. Together with other UvA faculties and external clients, the IIS develops and implements education. You can turn to the Institute for advice about learning, teaching and the development of new educational concepts in an interdisciplinary context with the accompanying organisational- and teacher professionalisation.