What constitutes good teaching - today and in the future? What does it actually mean to be a model university? What ideas about good teaching inspire us - and where are there tensions, unanswered questions, or new perspectives?

Teaching Day 2026 invites teachers, students, and interested parties to explore these questions together and to understand teaching as a shared creative space.
After the welcome, the Teaching Award for Innovative and Outstanding Teaching 2026 will kick off the event. For the award students can nominate teaching projects, with which teachers break new ground and rethink teaching at UW/H.

This will be followed by a moderated discussion forum on the key question of the day. Representatives from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and WittenLab will engage in conversation-not as a traditional panel discussion, but as a dialogical format that highlights different perspectives and consciously opens up space for questions, reactions, and contributions from the audience. Students and teachers are invited to actively participate and join in the discussion.

In the second part of the afternoon, the space opens up for a Barcamp. In this open format, the participants design the program themselves: their own questions, experiences, or ideas about teaching and the model university can be brought in and discussed in small groups.

The Barcamp thrives on exchange between equals - without prepared presentations, but with plenty of room for joint reflection, different perspectives, and new ideas.
At the end, key impressions and thoughts from the day will be brought together: What have we learned? Which questions remain unanswered? And which ideas could further shape teaching at UW/H?

Snacks and drinks will be available in the foyer throughout the event, inviting informal exchanges between program items.

Registration is online. Participation is free of charge. The event is held in german.