SDU now has four internal prizes in connection with SDUs 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 2025, on the 20th of June.
The TEK Management will nominate TEK staff for the SDU prizes from the recipients of the previous years’ TEK Prize recipients (one in each category).

Questions
Questions about the TEK prizes can be addressed to Iben Birk Jensen, ibij@tek.sdu.dk

NOMINATION PROCESS – TEK PRIZES

NOMINATION PROCESS – TEK PRIZES

TEK Research Dissemination Prize

Nomination
All TEK staff can nominate candidates. Only colleagues or managers can nominate – it is not possible to self-nominate.

The nomination can be in Danish or English and should include a motivation of around half an A4 page. Please, email the nomination to tek@tek.sdu.dk with the subject ‘TEK Research Dissemination Prize’ no later than 25^th april 2025

The prize
The prize for research dissemination is awarded a researcher at TEK for vivacious creative communication of her/his field of research aimed at a broad audience.

Assessment
The Academic Council will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Management, 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 of time.
• is capable of communicating his/her research to a broad audience – within and outside of the university and research community.
• is capable of communicating research within a particular abstruse field of research.
• has found new ways to communicate his/her message.

Previous recipients:

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
All TEK staff can nominate candidates. Only colleagues or managers can nominate – it is not possible to self-nominate.

The nomination can be in Danish or English and should include a motivation of around half an A4 page. Please, email the nomination to tek@tek.sdu.dk@sdu.dk with the subject ‘TEK Innovation Prize’ no later than 25^th april 2025

The Prize
The Innovation Prize is awarded a TEK staff member who has brought TEKs and SDUs knowledge within education or research into play and created value for and with society in a new and innovative way.

The prize can either be awarded for an overall effort to focus on and display innovation at the faculty or the university or for a specific activity accomplished within the last year.

Assessment
TEK Innovation will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Management, who will 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 it 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 business which products or services are original and transferable and have created or have potential to create benefit for society.

Previous recipients

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
All TEK staff are welcome to nominate candidates. Only colleagues or managers can nominate – it is not possible to self-nominate.

The nomination can be in Danish or English and should include a motivation of around half an A4 page. Please, email the nomination to tek@tek.sdu.dk with the subject ‘TEK TAP Prize’ no later than 25^th april 2025

The prize
The prize is awarded a technical administrative staff member or group (TAP) who have made a noticeable contribution at TEK and SDU in supporting one or more of the university’s many activities.  

Assessment
The TEK Liaison Committee will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Management, 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

2024: Richard Beck, TEK Economy
2023: Morten Berenth Nielsen, TEK Innovation
2022: Sarah Kvist
2021: Frank Hviid, Ruben Møllebjerg, Glen Lindholm og Klavs Ordon, SDU IT

TEK Teaching Prize (only students can nominate)

Nomination
Only TEK students can nominate candidates (the students will receive a separate email).

The prize
The purpose of the teaching prize is to enhance and reward fulltime researchers / lectures at TEK (individual or group) for exceptional effort and large commitment in teaching at one or more of the Faculty’s engineering programmes.

Assessment
The Academic Study Board will assess all incoming nominations and bring forward a maximum of three candidates to the TEK Management, who will choose the prize recipient.

The candidates are assessed with emphasis on specialist, pedagogical or didactic qualifications.

Please use one or more of the below examples as inspiration in your motivation:

• How has the lecturer managed to create an engaging teaching environment?
• How has the lecturer succeeded in conveying complex material in a way that made you understand it?
• How has the lecturer encouraged you to reflect on new knowledge and/or research?
• In what way has the lecturer given you a sense of how the professionals work in the field?
• In what way is the lecturer adapting the teaching to your needs?
• How does the lecturer make the teaching relevant to you?

Previous recipients:

2024: Bjarne Schmidt, IME
2023: Jesper Olsen, IME
2022: Knud Bjørnholt
2021: Massimiliano Errico, IGT
2020: Christoffer Sloth, MMMI
2019: Charlotte Pedersen, ITI
2018: Henrik Skov Midtiby, MMMI
2017: Bettina Hansen, ITI