Teaching Quality Pact

 

RWTH Aachen was successful twice in the first call for proposals in the nationwide program for teaching quality - with the RWTH Aachen wide proposal and with the the combined proposial from RWTH Aachen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and the Technisches Universität Dortmund. The university views this as a confirmation of its teaching strategy. The results of the first call for proposals were announces on May 17, 2011 by Federal Minister Annette Schavan and the Joint Science Conference (GWK).

"The federal government is making a total of two billion euros available for the teaching quality pact from 2011 to 2020. Such commitment to the quality of teaching and learning in a broadly laid out, national funding program has never existed in the history of the federal republic," emphasized State Secretary Rachel at the awarding of grant notices of over 18.5 million euros on September 16, 2011, in Aachen. "In addition to many good ideas, RWTH Aachen has particularly succeeded in bringing forward an honest analysis of its strengths and weaknesses and deriving targeted measures from them, which assess problems on-site. Our collective goal is to further improve the quality of teaching for the students' benefit," underlined the Düren parliament member. Rector Schmachtenberg accepted the notice with a few words of thanks, saying " This funding confirms our whole teaching strategy, which was developed through the cooperation of a team from all university groups. Through the Bund-Länder program, RWTH Aachen can now implement a tailored strategy for teaching."