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Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies

Affective Learning Grant

Academic year 2025–2026

The Affective Learning Grant supports UvA lecturers in improving and/or developing education that contributes to a better balance between cognitive and affective learning. The emphasis is on the development of students’ attitudes, values, emotions and motivation. It concerns personal growth, engagement, and the ability to contribute to an inclusive and just society. Do you have an innovative idea to structurally integrate affective learning into your teaching? And would you like to experiment with this and further develop it? Then apply for the Affective Learning Grant and have the chance to become part of the broader Empowered Minds initiative at the UvA.

We highly value innovative proposals. Within this initiative, we are looking for proposals that relate to, for example:

  • Course content: how can education be designed so that, besides knowledge, the personal values of students are also addressed?
  • Assessment and feedback: how can assessment and feedback be used in a meaningful way to make affective learning goals visible?
  • Interaction between teacher and student: how can the relationship and dialogue between teacher and students contribute to reflection on their values and attitudes?
  • Learning activities: what new formats and learning activities can be designed that allow students to actively experience what affective learning entails?

The Affective Learning Grant is a collaboration between the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Teaching & Learning Centre Central (TLC-Central) and is part of the Comenius Leadership project Empowered Minds.

  • For whom?
    • You are a lecturer or part of a team of lecturers of one or more courses at the UvA and have a role in their development.
    • You are interested in working on educational innovation.
    • You are willing to share your knowledge and inspire others.
    • You have an appointment at the UvA for at least 0.5 FTE for at least the duration of the project.
    • You have permission from your supervisor to spend hours on this project.
  • Criteria

    In the assessment and selection of applications, we apply the following criteria:

    • Contributes convincingly to the objective of the grant.
    • Quality of the proposal. In this, we assess the substantiation and the plan of approach.
    • Feasibility of the project within the set timeframe.
    • Relevance for educational practice within the university.
    • Teaching experience and background of the applicant(s).
    • Distribution of applications across different programmes/faculties.
  • Application and award dates
    • In the academic year 2025/2026, there are seven grants of 1,500 euros each.
    • Applications for the Affective Learning Grant can be submitted from 13 October 2025 until 16 January 2026 at 13:00 hrs.
  • Procedure
    • The applicant completes the application form.
    • In case the grant is awarded, the applicant must be able to demonstrate that sufficient space is provided by the department head or supervisor to carry out the project.
    • The application is assessed by a committee consisting of experts from the UvA.
    • After approval of the application, an intake interview will follow.
    • After completion, the project will be evaluated and the grant holder will share the results within the UvA.
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