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The APPLICATION for seed funding for ECIU@TUHH Micromodule 2025/26 is open!

"Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg) is a place of education. Those who study with us prepare for the challenges of the future and learn to broaden the horizons of technology, science, and society."

This is how the mission statement of TU Hamburg for teaching begins. Activating learning formats as well as international and interdisciplinary courses at TU Hamburg are a promising and innovative approach to bringing this mission statement to life in study and teaching. Since 2019, several instructors at TU Hamburg have been experimenting with pilot projects initiated by ECIU University. Innovations and the testing of new formats and processes are essential to implement the mission statement and the vision of ECIU University— to which TU Hamburg is also committed— and to support their sustainable integration at TU Hamburg.

This call for proposals offers you, the lecturers of TU Hamburg, the opportunity to apply for financial support to open your courses to students of ECIU partners as ECIU Micromodules and to further develop your course with a new or expanded focus on interdisciplinarity or internationality.

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The implementation of an ECIU@TUHH Micromodule is funded with up to a maximum of €3,000. Only the actual costs will be funded, not as a lump sum. In this fourth call within the ECIUn+ funding period, only the implementation of micromodules can be supported, not challenges.

The aim of this call for proposals is to support the further development of existing courses into innovative international and interdisciplinary learning opportunities.

For courses in Winter Semester 2025/26 and Summer Semester 2026, there are three submission deadlines with corresponding implementation periods:

October 13, 2025 → implementation between CW 51 in 2025 and CW 15 in 2026
December 5, 2025 → implementation between CW 06 and CW 21 in 2026
February 6, 2026 → implementation between CW 15 and CW 36 in 2026

Please use the application form.

If you have questions or would like advice, please contact Dr. Dorothea Ellinger at eciu(at)tuhh.de.

Criteria for Funding

The aim of this call for proposals is to support the further development of existing courses into innovative international and interdisciplinary learning opportunities. To achieve this goal, this call is aimed at courses regardless of their didactic format, provided they meet the following conditions:

Part of an existing module
Intended exclusively for Master’s students
Taught entirely in English, including all teaching materials
Carry a workload of 1–3 ECTS
Delivered in a hybrid or fully online format (with at least 55% synchronous sessions)

Newly appointed professors may also apply with a course that is yet to be planned. Courses that are prepared and delivered in collaboration with ECIU partners are given priority for funding, although collaboration is not a requirement. A list of ECIU partners can be found here.

To receive funding, an application must demonstrate that, in addition to the above requirements, the following criteria can also be met:

At least 10 places are made available for students from ECIU partner universities, in addition to TU Hamburg students (according to the presidential resolution of September 13, 2023, the total number of participating students from TU Hamburg and ECIU partners must be 10 or more to count towards teaching load recognition)
The didactic design enables the acquisition of interdisciplinary or international competencies
The didactic design follows the principles of activating, student-centered learning

Furthermore, funding is associated with the following expectations:

Experiences from the implementation of the funded course should be presented either as a poster at the I3ProTeachING final event or at teaching innovation conferences (e.g., ECIU Forum, TURN Conference)
Applicants should be willing to share results within the ECIU teaching community (e.g., at ECIU Lunch&Learn, ECIU Tea(m)cher Kick-Off, or ECIU@TUHH workshops by and for instructors)

If a micromodule is conducted in collaboration with two other ECIU partners as a Blended Intensive Program (BIP), the host university can receive up to an additional €6,000 from ERASMUS+ for implementation. Active participation of the applicant in formal BIP processes is essential. The International Office and the ECIU@TUHH team provide support in this process.

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Application and Selection Process

Professors at TU Hamburg are invited to submit applications viaeciu@tuhh.de. Proposals can be submitted in German or English. Please use the form below [still the wrong one from the third call, needs to be replaced] for submission.
This fourth call includes up to three rounds, each with submission deadlines tied to implementation periods. Only proposals for courses offered in Winter Semester 2025/26 and Summer Semester 2026 are eligible for funding. The deadlines are:

October 13, 2025 → implementation between CW 51 in 2025 and CW 15 in 2026
December 5, 2025 → implementation between CW 06 and CW 21 in 2026
February 6, 2026 → implementation between CW 15 and CW 36 in 2026

A guarantee for funding in all three rounds cannot be given. In rounds 2 and 3, unspent funds from the previous round are always carried over.

3. A TUHH jury will evaluate all proposals from a round within one week based on the quality and expected effectiveness of the applications, plausibility of the time and budget plan, and expected outcomes and impact. The jury consists of:

One member of the ECIU@TUHH team (not from ZLL)
One member of the ZLL team who is not affiliated with ECIU, acting as a teaching and learning expert
One student

If you have questions or need advice on preparing your application, please contact the ECIU@TUHH team or Dr. Dorothea Ellinger at eciu@tuhh.de.

More information on what Micromodules are and what has already been offered at TU Hamburg can be found at:
https://www.tuhh.de/eciu/learning-opportunities-der-eciu/eciu-micro-modules

The full range of ECIU teaching and learning opportunities can be explored at engage.eciu.eu

Application Form 4thCall ECIU@TUHH 2026

4th Call Application form

Conditions for the Use of Funds

he implementation of an ECIU@TUHH Micromodule is funded with up to a maximum of €3,000.

A total of €272,000 is available from the EU-funded ECIUn+ project, which can be spent between October 2022 and September 2026 in accordance with the “ECIU Framework for the Development of Capacities and Competences” to support the implementation of ECIU@TUHH Challenges (not eligible in this fourth call) and Micromodules.

The funds represent seed funding and may not be sufficient to cover all incurred costs.

The provided funds can be used to cover course-related material costs, course-related travel costs for TUHH staff, the hiring and training of student tutors, or the organization and implementation of on-campus phases.

Please note that the budget is available only for TUHH personnel and activities.

It cannot be used to fund staff costs of other ECIU universities or external partners.

Of course, partners may obtain funds from their own institutions.

Expenses for the third round, and thus for Summer Semester 2026, must be registered with the responsible ECIUn+ officer in Department 7 by May 30, 2026, and finalized by September 30, 2026.

TU Hamburg

Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3

21073 Hamburg

E-mail : eciu@tuhh.de