Nominate your candidate for the Teacher of the Year Award

Who can be nominated for the award?

Every year, at the Commemoration the University of Copenhagen awards the Teacher of the Year Award, to one of the University's fixed or part-time teachers for the best and most inspiring teaching.

What is the purpose of the award?

With the award, the University of Copenhagen wishes to accentuate and appreciate high-quality university teaching. The winner receives a porcelain owl and DKK 25,000 at the Commemoration 2025. Read more about the Teacher of the Year Award here.

Who can nominate?

The Academic Board on Education Strategy (KUUR) has discussed the importance of students nominating teachers for the University’s Teacher of the Year Award. This means that nominations for the award may come from individual students, groups of students or collaborations involving students (for example under the study boards). Nominations made solely by employees or teaching colleagues without involving students will therefore not be considered.

When is the deadline?

The deadline is 3 April 2025.

How do I nominate a teacher?

You nominate your candidate for the Teacher of the Year Award by submitting the form below. When you nominate a teacher for the Award, please give examples of how the teacher meets the criteria for the award. You may well nominate a teacher even if you are unable to account for all of the criteria.

Fields marked with * are required.

Information about the teacher you wish to nominate
E.g. "assistant professor", "associate professor" etc.
Where at UCPH is the teacher employed?
Motivation for your nomination
Describe how you think the lecturer supports a high level of engagement from students and helps students achieve a high academic level and reflect critically.
Describe how you think that the teacher teaches difficult material in an inspiring manner and provides good, constructive feedback to students.
Describe how you think the teacher develops and renews its teaching, e.g. in the form of new teaching methods, new technology, new academic perspectives or based on feedback from students and sparring with colleagues.
Describe how you think the lecturer involves practice in the teaching, e.g. by own experiences or inspiration from external parties
Describe how you think the lecturer helps students to apply scientific theories and methods, and how the teaching is research-based
Information about you and potential co-nominators
Your 6-digit username, e.g. "abc123"
E.g. "Student of ..."
If you are not the only one nominating this teacher you might write the names of your co-nominators here.
Information to nominee *
May we inform the teacher that you and potential co-nominators have nominated the teacher for the Teacher of the Year Award? Please notice that your identity will be known to members of KUUR and certain employees of the administrative department "Education & Students".