DH team & teacher nominated for UU Awards for Education 2025
To stimulate and reward cooperation in the field of education at UU, the UU Team Award for Education has been awarded for several years to a team that has made an exceptional contribution to education at UU. This year, a team with a focus on digital humanities has been nominated: Team Summer School Digital Art History. One of the organisers has also been nominated for the UU Outstanding Teacher Award.
The nominated teams for the UU Team Award for Education are:
- Team Extramuraal Onderwijs Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Team Global Justice Investigations Lab
- Team Summer School Digital Art History: a research lab at dizzying heights
Team Summer School Digital Art History
The Summer School Digital Art History in the Grote Kerk Naarden is an interdisciplinary education and research project, which arose from concrete questions from conservators and the Stichting Grote Kerk Naarden. These questions, which arose during the restoration of the 700m² ceiling vault, required an integrated approach in which art-historical, digital and material-technical perspectives came together. The Summer School consisted of one week of high-intensity on-site teaching during which a digital reconstruction of the vault was made. During this week, teachers, students and external partners carried out digitisation and art-historical research. Initial results were shared with a wide audience, including 120 visitors to a symposium in the church, as well as through local and national media.
Teacher of the Year
Dr. Daantje Meuwissen, who was one of the organisers and part of the Team Summer School Digital Art History, has also been shortlisted for the UU ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’.
Awards and ceremony
The winning team will receive €10.000 to be spent on team development, team building, a training or course, a contribution to a study trip, an offsite-day or something similar of their choice. The winners of both the UU ‘Team Award for Education’ and ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’ will be announced at the OnderwijsFestival on Thursday, 6 March 2025.
