Call for Proposals 2025

TU Delft aims to expand open education throughout the university’s bachelor and master programs. To this end, the Open Science Programme is looking for TU Delft staff who are interested in starting up innovative projects around open education. The following activities fall under the scope of this Call:

• Publishing innovative self-made teaching materials, such as interactive open textbooks or open educational resources;
• Educating teaching staff about (the benefits of) finding, selecting and using already existing open educational resources;
• The development and implementation of innovative open educational practices, for instance by involving students in the development of OER and other materials that can be made available publicly (e.g. podcasts, blogposts, articles);
• Documentation, publication, dissemination and/or upscaling of already existing innovative open educational practices.

We also acknowledge that the meaning and practice of ‘open education’ itself is evolving. Therefore, if your project idea aligns with the values of accessibility, inclusion, equity and/or diversity without falling into any of the above categories, you are encouraged to get in touch to discuss whether your idea may fall within the scope of this call. For inquiries, please contact Marcell Várkonyi, Project Lead Open Education: m.varkonyi@tudelft.nl.

Any staff of the eight faculties of TU Delft can submit a proposal. Collaboration across faculties is encouraged. In order to be eligible, the applicant(s) are required to have an active working relationship with TU Delft at the time of application and for the whole duration of the proposed project. In addition, all applicants must ensure that their head(s) of department agrees to the project and the proposed time investment required by the applicants.

Budget of up to €20.000 per project can be requested in the project proposal. If the project budget extends beyond this limit, the department(s) of the applicant(s) can offer to supplement the budget with internal funding. Such agreements need to be made prior to the submission of the Proposal.

In addition to the budget, project members are encouraged to make use of the Library’s open education related services, which includes support with copyright matters and open licenses, similarity check of materials to be published, and finding suitable platforms and repositories for hosting and showcasing Open Educational Resources.

Project members will be required to publish all materials produced in the project with a CC BY 4.0 license unless valid reasons apply to use another licensing type. In case a CC BY license cannot be used, please consult Marcell Varkonyi, Project Lead Open Education (m.varkonyi@tudelft.nl), to make agreements about which license could be used.

Project members will be expected to disseminate information about the project’s process and its   outcomes at TU Delft’s Education Day and during Open Education Week. Additionally, the project members will be required to provide information for publishing an article about their project in The Educator, the Teaching Academy’s monthly newsletter.

Project proposals should be written using the Application Form. The Call is open for application until 10 February 2025, 23:59. The applicants will be notified of the review committee’s decision in the week of 10 March 2025.

The application form includes a template for writing work packages. A proposal has to include work packages on project management and sustainability, as well as 1-3 project specific work packages.

In addition to the Application Form, applicants are required to submit a Support Letter from their Head(s) of Department. For this purpose, they can use the template provided.

Applications can be submitted to oesf@tudelft.nl.

Any questions about the application process can be addressed to Marcell Varkonyi, Project Lead Open Education (m.varkonyi@tudelft.nl).

Proposals will be evaluated by the OESF Review Committee, based on the following five criteria:

1. Relevance, scale of 0-3 points (Does the project address an existing problem?)
2. Originality, scale of 0-3 points (Does project propose a new way of dealing with the defined problem?)
3. Feasibility, scale of 0-3 points (Are the goals of the project achievable within the financial and time limitations of the Call?)
4. Impact, scale of 0-3 points (How many teachers and/or students are served by the project? Does the project also serve people outside the faculty and/or TU Delft?)
5. Collaboration, scale of 0-2 points (Is there collaboration between departments and/or faculties? Or between students and teachers?)

Proposals with a minimal viable score of 8 out of 14 points will be considered for a grant. Project proposals will be evaluated after the submission deadline. Please consult the Evaluation Rubric for more information on the evaluation criteria (see right side of this webpage).

Applicants can send their grant application form to oesf@tudelft.nl.
If you have questions, please feel free to drop in during one of the walk-in consultation hours in the TU Delft Teaching Lab!

• 9 January 12.00-14.00  
• 3 February 12.00-14.00

Or contact Marcell Várkonyi (m.varkonyi@tudelft.nl), Project Lead Open Education to make an individual appointment.