Nominate colleagues for the Casimir Prize 2025-2026!
Did your colleagues develop an inspiring educational innovation? Or, did you collaborate with teachers and/or support staff to do so? You can nominate them for the Casimir Prize!
The deadline for nomination is Friday 12 June 2026
Nominate a team for the Casimir Prize 2025-2026What is the Casimir Prize
The Casimir Prize is an appreciation of teaching teams that achieve renewal and innovation in education. The Casimir Prize is awarded to teams consisting of two to ten FSW staff members. The prize consists of €1500, to be spent on team building, knowledge sharing or exchange with interns or externals. The jury report is also part of the prize.
Different roles and functions are preferably represented within the team: lecturer, programme director, education researcher, PhD candidate, student assistant, support staff, etc.
What are the key evaluation criteria?
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Working method, cooperation and content of the educational initiative (weighting 50%)
The teaching team has devised and/or realised an educational innovation that can also take other educational initiatives forward. Collaboration within and outside FSW is valued. -
Impact within the educational community (weighting 30%)
The education team has had an impact on students, and/or lecturers, and/or course(s), and/or programme level, and/or institute level, and/or the faculty with the education initiative (and working method). If the impact has not yet been realised, it has been convincingly argued why it can reasonably be expected when implementing the education initiative. -
Evidence-informed working methodology (weighting 20%)
The education team has worked on the education initiative in a systematic way, for example through evidence-informed working methodology or periodic reflection on project outcomes. This is demonstrated, for example, by substantiation using scientific literature, explicit attention to (future) evaluation and/or (future) research.
The winning team 2024-2025
Last year, a team comprising Rachel Plak, Karlijn Pieterse, Maretha de Jonge, Tirza Smits, Shaza Saadeh, Minja Sarovic (all from Education and Child Sciences) and Erik van Duijn and Lotte Vinkenoog (SOLO Educational Support) won the Casimir Prize for their innovative vodcast project. Instead of writing a paper, students on the Master’s course ‘Autism (Diagnosis and Treatment)’ work in small groups to produce a vodcast (a podcast in video format). The jury praised the project as innovative, AI-proof and of interest to all degree programmes.