SDU now has four internal prizes in connection with SDU’s Annual Celebration:
- The Research Dissemination Prize
- The Teaching Prize
- The Innovation Prize
- The TAP Prize (for Technical Administrative staff)
TEK has corresponding annual TEK prizes:
- TEK Research Dissemination Prize
- TEK Teaching Prize
- TEK Innovation Prize
- TEK TAP Prize
Please see the nomination guidelines below.
The prizes will be awarded at the TEK Summer Party 2026, on the 4th of June.
Among the recent years’ recipients of the TEK Prizes, one candidate will be selected in each category to be nominated for the corresponding SDU awards.
Deadline for nominations, 7th April 2026
Questions
Questions about the TEK prizes can be addressed to Iben Birk Jensen
NOMINATION PROCESS – TEK PRIZES
TEK Research Dissemination Prize
Nomination
Do you have a colleague who brings research to life in an inspiring and engaging way? All TEK staff can nominate candidates for the Research Dissemination Prize. Nominations should come from a colleague or from leadership. Self‑nominations are not possible.
Nomination TEK Research Dissemination Prize - Fill in your nomination here
The prize
The Dissemination Prize is awarded to a researcher at TEK who excels in communicating in their field in a lively, creative, and accessible manner to a broad audience. This may involve innovative forms of dissemination, inspiring storytelling, or a unique ability to build bridges between research and society.
Assessment
The Academic Council will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Leadership Group, who will choose the prize recipient.
The prize recipient must meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Has delivered a particular research dissemination performance within the last year.
- Has conducted excellent research dissemination within a longer period.
- Can communicate his/her research to a broad audience - within and outside of the university and research community.
- Can communicate research within a particular abstruse field of research.
- Has found new ways to communicate his/her message.
Previous recipients:
2025: Roana de Oliveira Hansen, MCI
2024: Christian Schlette, MMMI
2023: Lykke Margot Ricard, ITI
2022: Oliver Niebuhr, IME
2021: Roberto Naboni, ITI
2020: Alf Rehn, ITI
2019: Mathias Porsmose Clausen, KBM
2018: Anders Stengaard Sørensen, MMM
2017: Henrik Wenzel, KBM (also recipient of the SDU Research Dissemination Prize)
TEK Innovation Prize
Nomination
Do you have a colleague who thinks innovatively, challenges the status quo, and contributes to innovation across TEK? All TEK employees can nominate candidates for the Innovation Prize. Nominations should come from a colleague or from leadership. Self‑nominations are not possible.
Nomination TEK Innovation Prize - Fill in your nomination here
The Prize
The Innovation Prize is presented to TEK staff member who has applied TEK’s and SDU’s knowledge in a new and innovative way within education or research – and created value for and with society. The prize may recognise either a long‑term innovative effort at the faculty or university, or a specific activity undertaken within the past year.
Assessment
The TEK Leadership Group will assess all incoming nominations and choose the prize recipient.
The prize recipient must meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Has had research results which have been actively translated into research-based solutions or technologies and have brought them into use in collaboration with industry or public authorities.
- Has participated and helped strengthen the entrepreneurial and innovative mindset in teachers, PhD students or students and have been an excellent ambassador within entrepreneurship and innovation
- Has collaborated with industry or public authorities and created new opportunities for research, development or industry collaborations.
- Has contributed to creation of a company whose products or services are original and transferable and have created or have potential to create benefit for society.
Previous recipients
2025: Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid, IME
2024: Simon Svane & Henrik Karring, IGT
2023: Thomas Ebel, IME
2022: Henrik Wenzel, Lars Yde and Muhammad Tahir Ashraf
2021: Roana de Oliviera Hansen, MCI
2020: Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu, MMMI
2019: Morten Østergaard Andersen, KBM
2018: Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, MMMI
2017: Kjeld Jensen, MMMI
TEK TAP Prize
(TAP: Technical Administrative staff)
Nomination
Do you have a TAP colleague who consistently makes a positive difference and helps TEK and SDU function smoothly? All TEK staff can nominate candidates for the TAP Prize. Nominations must come from a colleague or from leadership. Self‑nominations are not possible.Nomination TEK TAP Prize - Fill in your nomination here
The prize
The TAP Prize recognises a TAP employee or group (Technical‑Administrative Personnel) who has contributed positively to TEK and SDU by providing strong support for one or more of the university’s many activities.
The prize celebrates the colleagues who make things work - often behind the scenes, but always with significant impact.
Assessment
The TEK Liaison Committee will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Leadership Group, who will choose the prize recipient.
The prize recipient must meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Special and noticeable contribution to the daily administration.
- Exceptional contribution to the implementation or fulfillment of TEK’s or SDU’s strategic goals.
- Extraordinary contribution to a positive working environment.
- Extraordinary performance in connection with working assignments with a professional, flexible and efficient mindset and with the users’ needs and wishes in mind.
- Consistent focus on high quality of work.
- Interdisciplinary and collaborative mindset to working assignments.
- Positive approach with new assignments or changed routines.
- Positive contribution to colleague’s job satisfaction and wellbeing.
- Extraordinary contribution in connection with making TEK and/or SDU a more sustainable workplace.
Previous recipients
2025: Katarzyna Janus-Fiutowska, Department Services, IME
2024: Richard Beck, TEK Economy
2023: Morten Berenth Nielsen, TEK Innovation
2022: Sarah Kvist, TEK Education
2021: Frank Hviid, Ruben Møllebjerg, Glen Lindholm og Klavs Ordon, SDU IT
TEK Teaching Prize (only students can nominate)
Nomination
The Teaching Prize gives students the opportunity to honour the TEK educators who have made a meaningful difference in their academic experience. Only students can submit nominations, and all TEK students will receive a separate email with instructions on how to nominate.
All TEK educators can be nominated as long as they are employed as full‑time researchers or educators.
The prize
The purpose of the Teaching Prize is to highlight and reward full‑time researchers and educators at TEK who have shown exceptional commitment to teaching. This may be through inspiring communication, innovative teaching methods, strong academic guidance, or the ability to create an engaging and inclusive learning environment.
The prize celebrates educators who make an engaged and lasting difference for the students.
Assessment
The Academic Study Board will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Leadership Group, who will choose the prize recipient.
The candidates are assessed with emphasis on specialist, pedagogical or didactic qualifications.
Please use some of the below questions as inspiration in your nomination:
- How has the educator managed to create an engaging teaching environment?
- How has the educator succeeded in conveying complex material in a way that made you understand it?
- How has the educator encouraged you to reflect on new knowledge and/or research?
- In what way has the educator given you a sense of how the professionals work in the field?
- In what way is the educator adapting the teaching to your needs?
- How does the educator make the teaching relevant to you?
Previous recipients:
2025: Janni Alrum Jørgensen, ITI
2024: Bjarne Schmidt, IME
2023: Jesper Olsen, IME
2022: Knud Bjørnholt, ITI
2021: Massimiliano Errico, IGT
2020: Christoffer Sloth, MMMI
2019: Charlotte Pedersen, ITI
2018: Henrik Skov Midtiby, MMMI
2017: Bettina Hansen, ITI