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The minister has approved the 'Education of the Future' project application from the GEO faculty for the . The minister also awarded the subsidy for the 'Sharestats' project, in which the UU participated together with 3 other educational institutions. Unfortunately, the 'Digital Simulation Clinic' project application from the GNK faculty was not honoured.

Open and online education provides opportunities to innovate teaching, improve the quality of education and boost academic outcomes. That is why the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is making funding available both for experiments with online education and for initiatives using open course materials. A total of 34 project proposals were submitted during this round, of which the minister approved 15.  These are 10 projects focused on interaction and feedback in online education, and 5 in which subject communities collaborate on OER collections.

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Within the Online Education pillar:

• Faculty of Geosciences - Education of the Future - synchronous online interdisciplinary sustainability education using the virtual classroom

Within the Open Educational Resources pillar:

• VU ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Amsterdam, Erasmus ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Rotterdam, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Amsterdam - Open sharing of statistics with a professional community of lecturers

These projects will start in 2020.

Sign up for the education Education Innovation Scholarships

Are you an instructor at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and interested in submitting a proposal for the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme? After the summer, the internal procedure for 2021 will begin. Contact the Centre for Academic Teaching via cat@uu.nl. On Monday 15 June 2020, 13:00 - 14:30, online information will be provided about these and other educational innovation grants. you can read more about the information and register. The Centre has a large network of experts and will be happy to help you optimise your research proposal.