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Call for Proposals: VU BKO and SKO alumni fund for 2023/2024

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fund gives you as BKO and SKO alumni the chance to investigate how your ideas to improve education work in practice. Test your ideas based on educational literature and primary data collection. Inform and inspire the VU community with your findings. Apply for funding from the SoTL BKO and SKO alumni fund by 1st November 2023.

What is SoTL?
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a scholarly approach that emphasizes the systematic study, reflection, and sharing of teaching practices.

What is in it for you?
⌚ 10k Euro budget to dedicate time and hire assistants to research your innovation
👩‍🏫 Training in SoTL concepts and methodologies
🤝 Mentorship by SoTL experts at the VU Centre for Teaching & Learning
🌐 Join the network of SoTL practitioners at VU
✨ Recognition for your leadership in educational innovation
💹 Great foundation for a larger SoTL project supported by (inter)national funding

What is expected from you and your team?
💡 Propose an exciting SoTL project with real potential to help future-proof education at VU
💕 Commit yourself to the full implementation of your SoTL project by Dec 2024
🧩 Participate actively in the training, networking and dissemination activities

Apply by 1st November and (if your proposal is granted) implement your project in 2024!

Application guidelines and information
A team of lecturers that want to test and evaluate a bright idea for future-proofing their education based on literature can submit a funding proposal.

A team can consist of lecturers from the same degree programme and/ or faculty, or different ones. Successful proposals receive a budget of max. €10.000 (e.g. hours for research design, technical support and recording of knowledge clips). They are also supported by educational experts from the VU Centre for Teaching & Learning for the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of (the results of) the pilot.

A proposal consists of a completed Application form in English or Dutch (use this template) and a Support letter from a line manager or programme director connected to the main applicant. All required documents have to be sent in one .pdf to ctl@vu.nl.

Deadline for application
The deadline for applications is November 1st, 2023 before 23:59. The winning proposals receive communication in December.

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