Celebrating Commitment to Excellence in Teaching

Hochschule Geisenheim University’s Teaching Award honors instructors and teams of instructors who have made an exceptional contribution to academic teaching and who inspire and support their students in the learning process.

The award recognizes this outstanding commitment to excellent teaching and aims to share best practices in order to encourage staff to refine or improve their teaching concepts and modules.

Our students have a special role to play in this context as they are the only ones who can submit nominations.

 

Award Winners 2022

After reviewing the nominations as well as the teaching concepts submitted by the nominees, the Teaching Award was presented to three teachers.

The following statements describe very well the reasons why these three teachers were chosen.

Vegetation and Site Science

Ilona Leyer
Prof. Dr. Ilona Leyer
Building 1000
Room 218
Phone +49 6722 502 463
Ilona.Leyer(at)hs-gm.de Details

Lecture, 2nd Semester LAB

"Prof. Leyer is an outstanding teacher! She knows how to challenge and support students."

 

Chemistry & Technology of Selected and New Food Products

Ralf Schweiggert
Prof. Dr. Ralf Schweiggert
Building 6120
Room 00.60
Phone über +49 6722 502 312
Ralf.Schweiggert(at)hs-gm.de Details

Lecture and Seminar, 2nd Semester LSM & GTM

"Prof. Schweiggert's course is characterized by its high level of content and quality, coupled with his ability to meet students where they are and increase their knowledge through collaborative working on the blackboard."

 

Special Physiology of Horticultural Crops

Jana Zinkernagel
Prof. Dr. Jana Zinkernagel
Building 1000
Room 102
Phone über +49 6722 502 511
Jana.Zinkernagel(at)hs-gm.de Details

Lecture and Seminar, 2nd Semester SPGWM

"When people talk about their education, they often remember one professor who was particularly inspiring as a person and in his or her specific subject. For me and for many of us, that person is Prof. Zinkernagel."

 

Awards Committee

The Awards Committee is to select each year's recipients for the Teaching Award.

The committee is composed of equal numbers of students and teaching staff members and chaired by the Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs. A new committee will be established each year. If you would like to join, feel free to apply during the application period.

 

Awards Committee 2023

Chair

Mirjam Hey
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Hey
Building 5905
Room 01.11
Phone +49 6722 502 7111
Mirjam.Hey(at)hs-gm.de Details

Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs

 

Students (alphabetical order)

Benedikt Braun, B.Sc. Internationale Weinwirtschaft

Simon Enders, B.Sc. Gartenbau

Lennart Rühling, B.Sc. Internationale Weinwirtschaft

Laurenz Seibert, B.Sc. Internationale Weinwirtschaft

Teaching staff (alphabetical order)

Emma Gledhill-Schmitt, B. A.

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Kahlen

Dr. Larissa Strub

Prof. Dr. Alexander von Birgelen

Prof. Dr. Moritz Wagner

Awards Committee 2022

Chair

Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs

Prof. Dr. Alexander von Birgelen

Students

Jannik Boer, B.Sc. Beverage Technology

Maximilian Retterath, M.Sc. Food Safety

Lisa Zimmermann, M.Sc. Beverage Technology

Dennis Zimmerstädt, 6th semester B.Sc. Horticulture

Teaching staff

Katharina Adler, M.Sc.

Emma Gledhill-Schmitt, B. A.

Prof. Dr. Bianca May

Dr. Matthias Schmitt

Award Ceremony

The Teaching Award is presented annually at the Teaching Forum between the summer and winter semester. The 2023 Teaching Forum will be held on October 13. Each winner receives EUR 1,500 to use for their own teaching projects.

Nominees 2022 (in alphabetical order)

Nominations were made based on courses, not teachers, so individuals may be nominated more than once.

 

Surveying and Quantity Determination

Markus Bormuth
Dipl.-Ing. Markus Bormuth

Mathematics and Statistics

Katrin Kahlen
Prof. Dr. Katrin Kahlen
Building 6101
Room 00.03
Phone +49 6722 502 582
Katrin.Kahlen(at)hs-gm.de Details

[Translate to English:] Landschaftskunde

Ilona Leyer
Prof. Dr. Ilona Leyer
Building 1000
Room 218
Phone +49 6722 502 463
Ilona.Leyer(at)hs-gm.de Details

Vegetation and Site Science

Ilona Leyer
Prof. Dr. Ilona Leyer
Building 1000
Room 218
Phone +49 6722 502 463
Ilona.Leyer(at)hs-gm.de Details

Chemistry & Technology of Selected and New Food Products

Ralf Schweiggert
Prof. Dr. Ralf Schweiggert
Building 6120
Room 00.60
Phone über +49 6722 502 312
Ralf.Schweiggert(at)hs-gm.de Details

Special Physiology of Horticultural Crops

Jana Zinkernagel
Prof. Dr. Jana Zinkernagel
Building 1000
Room 102
Phone über +49 6722 502 511
Jana.Zinkernagel(at)hs-gm.de Details

Business Administration

Robert Anton Göbel
Prof. Dr. Robert Anton Göbel
Building 5800
Room E4
Phone +49 6722 502 703
Robert.Goebel(at)hs-gm.de Details

Mathematics

Katrin Kahlen
Prof. Dr. Katrin Kahlen
Building 6101
Room 00.03
Phone +49 6722 502 582
Katrin.Kahlen(at)hs-gm.de Details

Ecology

Ilona Leyer
Prof. Dr. Ilona Leyer
Building 1000
Room 218
Phone +49 6722 502 463
Ilona.Leyer(at)hs-gm.de Details

Viticulture Technology Practical Exercises

Gunther Schrauth
Gunther Schrauth
Building 6003
Room 212
Phone +49 6722 502 366
Gunther.Schrauth(at)hs-gm.de Details

Mathematics and Statistics

Kai Velten
Prof. Dr. Kai Velten
Building 6101
Room 01.11
Phone +49 6722 502 734
Kai.Velten(at)hs-gm.de Details

Crop Protection (team nomination)

Annette Reineke
Prof. Dr. Annette Reineke
Building 6120
Room 01.56
Phone über +49 6722 502 411
Annette.Reineke(at)hs-gm.de Details
Beate Berkelmann-Löhnertz
Prof. Dr. Beate Berkelmann-Löhnertz
Building 6120
Room 01.57
Phone +49 6722 502 415
Beate.Berkelmann-Loehnertz(at)hs-gm.de Details
Moustafa Selim
Dr. Moustafa Selim
Building 5903
Room 04
Phone +49 6722 502 419
Moustafa.Selim(at)hs-gm.de Details

Contact

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact hochschuldidaktik@hs-gm.de.

 

Yasmin Peters
Yasmin Peters, M.Sc.
Building 9002
Room 5
Phone +49 6722 502 484
Yasmin.Peters(at)hs-gm.de Details
André Beem
André Beem, M.A.
Building 9002
Room 4
Phone +49 6722 502 485
Andre.Beem(at)hs-gm.de Details
Carolin Richardt
Carolin Richardt, M.A.
Building 9002
Room 3
Phone +49 6722 502 785
Carolin.Richardt(at)hs-gm.de Details

Best Practices of (digital) teaching

Special examples of innovative digital teaching at Geisenheim University were already highlighted in 2020. Feel free to take a look at the projects presented at that time. You can also find more examples of particularly successful examples on our page "Practical Examples of Digital Teaching".