Do you have an innovative idea for education or want to research an educational issue? With a voucher from the TLC, you get the chance to experiment, develop and learn. TLC vouchers are specifically aimed at improving the substantive and didactic quality of education and the professionalisation of teachers. With the vouchers, we want to stimulate ideas in education that strengthen education in terms of content and didactics. In addition, we want to contribute in this way to the elaboration and implementation of the educational vision of Radboud University.
The possibilities in a row: which voucher suits your initiative?
TLC offers two types of vouchers, each aimed at supporting and stimulating educational innovation and research. The vouchers can be used to explore new ideas or scale proven initiatives.
Education innovation or research voucher
Want to develop and/or test a new teaching method, curriculum or subject area, or research an educational issue with potentially broad impact? This voucher gives you and your team the opportunity to experiment with educational innovations in a low-threshold way or to conduct targeted research. A combination of innovation and research is also possible, as long as the two projects are substantively aligned.
- Amount: €2,000 - €10,000
- Duration: up to 2 years
'Enlarge your Impact' voucher
Have you completed a successful educational innovation or research project and do you want to increase its impact? The ‘Enlarge your Impact’ voucher helps you to further develop your innovation into a sustainable and more widely applicable product. Think, for example, of an educational game, (digital) tool or toolbox that can also be useful for other courses or subjects. This allows you to increase the impact of your project on a wider group of students and teachers.
- Amount: €1,000 - €5,000
- Duration: 1 year maximum
Eligibility conditions for a voucher
- The applicant is employed by Radboud University or Radboudumc.
- There is room for one voucher per course, programme or department and a person can use a maximum of one voucher at a time.
- It is possible to submit a combined application for an innovation and research voucher, if both projects match in content. N.B. We treat a combined application as 2 separate projects. You need to fill in the application form for each project separately!
Possibilities for funding with a voucher
The funding is intended for additional cost items not covered by the regular educational process or research and for which no standard support is available, such as the Teaching Information Point or Radboud Educational Clips. You can use the project budget for expenses that demonstrably contribute to achieving the project results, for example:
- Project work such as compensation of teaching hours, deployment of working students or engaging external expertise. It is not intended that the entire amount will be spent on external hiring.
- Material costs such as the purchase of hardware or software, data transcription, translations, graphic design, costs for organising panel meetings or costs for presenting the project outcomes.
Criteria that an application must meet
When you submit an application, we consider the following criteria:
- Impact on education: The output of your project should benefit the substantive and didactic quality of education, and/or the professionalisation of teachers.
- Potential for broadening: The output of your project has the potential to make an impact within several courses, curricula or programmes.
- Relevant to the university's educational vision: The output of your project contributes to the formation, elaboration and implementation of Radboud University's educational vision.
- Collaboration: In your project, you combine expertise and work in a team. Don't have a team yet? We can help you put a team together through our network of teacher ambassadors, educational researchers and education professionals.
- Substantiation: Your approach should be based on insights from research or practical experiences. This way, we build on each other's knowledge and learn more about our teaching together.
- Maturity: Your work plan should be clear and concrete, with specific actions and intended results. If your plans are not yet there, we will be happy to help you develop your ideas further.
- Dissemination: You are willing to share the approach and output of your project with colleagues and the TLC network. By doing so, you inspire colleagues to ‘Discover - Explore - Experiment’ in their teaching too!