Funding for student assistant positions: TIB’s eTrainer funding enters its second round

In coop­er­a­tion with the Lower Sax­ony Min­istry of Sci­ence and Cul­ture (MWK), the Tech­nis­che Infor­ma­tions­bib­lio­thek Han­nover (TIB) is once again award­ing funds to finance stu­dent assis­tants for the win­ter semes­ter 2021/2022.
The fund­ing is intended to relieve lec­tur­ers in the time-con­sum­ing orga­ni­za­tion of online courses and at the same time pro­mote the open­ness of higher edu­ca­tion courses.

Scope of funding, application and award modalities

For the sec­ond round of fund­ing in 2021, the TIB and MWK eTrainer Fund has funds of around €40,000 avail­able. The max­i­mum indi­vid­ual vol­ume to be applied for is €3,600.

Fund­ing is open to all sub­ject areas and dis­ci­plines. All full-time lec­tur­ers at state-run uni­ver­si­ties in Lower Sax­ony are eli­gi­ble to apply. Fund­ing is obtained via a short appli­ca­tion.

The fol­low­ing con­di­tions must be met for approval:

• Devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal teaching/learning units that can be trans­ferred to other (teach­ing) con­texts and reused by other teach­ers due to their open licens­ing,
• Pub­li­ca­tion of the devel­oped edu­ca­tional mate­r­ial on twillo,
• Sup­port the par­tic­i­pa­tion of funded sup­port staff in the train-the-trainer pro­gram Online teach­ing, pro­mote open­ness

The dead­line for sub­mis­sion is August 15, 2021.
The review, assess­ment and allo­ca­tion of funds will be car­ried out in the order in which they are received: Appli­ca­tions will be processed in chrono­log­i­cal order of receipt. The call for fund­ing ends when the total avail­able fund­ing has been exhausted.