Calls for Proposals & Competitions
Innovative teaching formats, new didactic concepts or approaches to support students' academic success: Here you will find current calls for entries and competitions in which TUM teaching staff can participate with their ideas for studies and teaching.
As part of the City of Munich's ESD Vision 2030 initiative, the ESD Teaching Award is presented to teaching staff at Munich universities who are particularly committed to education for sustainable development (ESD) in their teaching.
Students and alumni of Munich universities can nominate lecturers
- who are independently responsible for their teaching,
- who taught at a state-recognized university in Munich between the winter semester 2023/24 and the summer semester 2025,
- and who have demonstrably integrated ESD and sustainability into their teaching.
Further information can be found at www.bene-muenchen.de/projekte/bne-sonderpreis-lehre/.
Nominations are open until 15 November 2025.
The Franco-Bavarian University cooperation center BayFrance supports the development of research and teaching projects and the establishment and expansion of sustainable and long-term research cooperation between Bavarian and French universities and research institutions with start-up funding of up to 5,000 euros per project. The funding includes mobility grants for teaching staff, post-docs, and doctoral students.
Details on funding and application can be found at www.bayern-france.org/de/foerderung/unsere-foerderprogramme/kooperation-in-lehre-und-forschung/ausschreibung/ (German).
Applications can be submitted until April 15 and November 15 of each year.
The Bavarian-Czech Higher Education Agency BTHA offers various funding programs to support bilateral summer and winter schools and Bavarian-Czech academic projects as well as mobility grants for study, lecture and research trips to the Czech Republic.
Project-related funding for bilateral cooperation with their partners at universities and research institutions in the Czech Republic can be applied for by all teachers and researchers at state and state-supported Bavarian higher education institutions. Applications can be submitted at any time.
For more information, please visit www.btha.cz/de.