TU Darmstadt honors outstanding best-practice models of teaching with the Athene Awards for Good Teaching. This year, emergenCITY professors Michèle Knodt and Florian Steinke from emergenCITY, among others, received the Athene Special Prize for Good Interdisciplinary Teaching. We congratulate them warmly!
On Wednesday, November 22, TU Darmstadt celebrated its annual Teaching Day, which is dedicated to current issues and challenges in studying and teaching. The traditional conclusion of the day was the presentation of the Athena Prizes, which are awarded by the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation. The Athena Prizes are endowed with a total of 46,000 euros.
The special prize for interdisciplinary teaching went to Professor Michèle Knodt and Lucas Flath from the Department of Social and Historical Sciences, Professor Florian Steinke and Jonas Hülsmann as well as Professor Stefan Niessen and Pascal Friedrich from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The award went to an innovative and interdisciplinary team teaching on energy transformation with a specially programmed serious game.
The course “Energiewende gestalten” offers students of political science and engineering a broadening of horizons for the socially highly relevant and complex topic of the energy transition and also fulfills the criteria of good interdisciplinary teaching. An innovative approach combines a lecture part, a seminar part and a practical part. In the practical part, students apply the knowledge they have acquired in the serious game and learn about the mechanisms of the energy transition in a fun way.
