The Education Award
The Education Award will be awarded to an individual, unit or environment that has made an outstanding effort to improve the quality of teaching and education, and where the work also supports the university’s strategic areas of priority for educational activities.
Latest winner (2025):
Prosjektet «Lære å lære»
Prosjektet «Lære å lære» på Senter for helsefaglig pedagogisk utvikling (HelPed) og Institutt for psykologi (begge ved Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet), og Universitetsbiblioteket ved UiT er tildelt Utdanningsprisen.
Å lære å lære er en forutsetning for at bedret undervisnings- og utdanningskvalitet resulterer i en målrettet ressursutnyttelse der alle studenter får utvikle potensialet sitt og utrustes for å lære hele livet. Prosjektet «Lære å lære» er en fremragende, forskningsbasert og implementert modul av høy kvalitet som nettopp fremmer førsteårsstudenters studieferdigheter og slik bidrar til bedre trivsel og læring.
Formålet er å fremme studentenes evne til klok, strategisk og selvregulerende bruk av mer effektive læringsteknikker, og dermed indirekte, på sikt, både opplevd og faktisk mestring.
The nomination should provide examples of measures, means and/or educational technology that contribute to raising the quality and improving the teaching and supervision, academic content and learning environment. Other factors that importance may be attached to are whether the work is innovative, provides positive results, promotes student recruitment and is closely linked to the research activities. It may also be relevant whether it has been quality assured in collaboration with other actors, e.g. students and/or the working and business community, and in collaboration with other institutions.
Importance will be attached to broad support from academic environments and students. The work and any results from it must be documented to the extent possible.
Only candidates nominated by at least one student will be considered for this award, cf. Section 3.
Practical information:
Submitting nominations
The deadline for nominating candidates for UiT's awards is Friday, January 22, 2027. Any nomination or documentation received after the deadline will not be considered.
Nominations may be submitted in either of the following ways:
- Nettskjema web form
- E-mail prisnominasjon@uit.no
Nomination requirements
Section 2 and 7.5 of the statutes outline the nomination requirements. The nomination form may be submitted as a Nettskjema online form here, or downloaded in Word format here. Attachments must be in PDF format, maximum eight pages in length including the nomination form, in English or Norwegian.
Documentation must not be submitted as a link to a website. If you wish to use information from the internet as documentation, you must include it as a screenshot, which will count as part of the maximum eight pages.
Procedure
All nominations received by the deadline that meet the requirements will be submitted to the Awards Committee for consideration. The committee then presents its recommendation to the university board, which decides the award winners.
Statutes (pdf) for Awards at UiT
7.5 The Education Award
The Education Award will be awarded to an individual, unit or environment that has made an outstanding effort to improve the quality of teaching and education, and where the work also supports the university’s strategic areas of priority for educational activities.
The nomination should provide examples of measures, means and/or educational technology that contribute to raising the quality and improving the teaching and supervision, academic content and learning environment.
Other factors that importance may be attached to are whether the work is innovative, provides positive results, promotes student recruitment and is closely linked to the research activities. It may also be relevant whether it has been quality assured in collaboration with other actors, e.g. students and/or the working and business community, and in collaboration with other institutions.
Importance will be attached to broad support from academic environments and students. The work and any results from it must be documented to the extent possible.
Only candidates nominated by at least one student will be considered for this award, cf. Section 3.
The Awards Committee
The committee’s composition
- The Rector appoints a separate committee to consider the nominations and make a recommendation to the University Board about who should receive the awards.
- The committee shall have the following composition:
- a member from the rectorate (Chair)
- two other employees at UiT (usually dean/vice-dean)
- an external member
- two student members
Substitute members must also be appointed.
The Student Parliament and Tromsø Doctoral Students (TODOS) propose the student members. The students are appointed for a period of one year, while the remainder of the committee is appointed for three years.
The committee’s duties
- The committee shall hold at least one meeting every year.
- Minutes of the meetings must be kept. The Rector shall act as the secretariat.
- All members of the committee have equal voting rights, with the following two exceptions:
- the students’ votes count double when considering the Education Award and the Student Environment Award
- the Chair has the casting vote to break deadlocks in the event of tied votes
- The committee shall present a report to the university board containing its recommendations and the grounds for these. The nomination forms of all the nominations must be attached. These forms contain a short version of the grounds for nomination. Anyone who wishes may obtain additional documentation from the secretary.
