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School Prize of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation

LEARNING AND TEACHING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

About the School Prize
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FAQ

Digital media are playing an increasingly important role in our lives. This makes it crucial that schools advance in this field. With our School Prize competition, we seek to inspire both teachers and pupils to think about how digital media and digital possibilities can be used productively in the learning process.

Silke Lohmiller, Managing Director Dieter Schwarz Foundation

I am glad that we can support the schools with the prize money in accompanying their pupils on the way to a well-reflected use of digital media.

Tatjana Linke, Managing Director aim

BACKGROUND

Since 2011, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation has been offering a school prize for the best media concept in cooperation with the Akademie für Innovative Bildung und Management (aim). Schools providing a concept for the use of digital media in educational contexts are honoured with prizes of a total value of 100,000 euros. The main focus of these concepts should be to support pupils as active and critical participants in a digital media society. With this award, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation seeks to encourage schools in their plans and initiatives. The award-winning media concepts are distinguished by the fact that they have a lasting impact on specialised teaching and advance the schools in the field of digitisation in the long run.

The prize is awarded every two years in the assembly hall (Aula) at the Bildungscampus of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Schools of all types and class levels may participate in the competition.

Apply now for the School Prize of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation with your media concept!

SELECTION CRITERIA

In the selection of the best concepts, what matters is the productive and cooperative use of media with an activating effect on the pupils as well as the sustainability of the project. School-integrated/teaching-integrated media use, which is to follow the guiding perspectives of the curriculum, is also important.

Jury

The jury is composed of a four-member team of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, the aim, the experimenta and Freiburg University of Education. The jury members combine the skills and expertise that are important for the use of digital media in class.

Silke Lohmiller

Managing Director Dieter Schwarz Foundation

Tatjana Linke

Managing Director aim

Dr. habil. Wolfgang Hansch

Managing Director experimenta

Prof. Dr. Thomas Raith

Professor at Freiburg
University of Education

PRIZE MONEY

Schools are honoured with prizes of a total value of more than 100,000 euros, awarded among five prize-winning schools as follows:

1ST PLACE WITH
30.000 EURO

2ND PLACE WITH
25.000 EURO

1ST PLACE WITH
30.000 EURO

3RD PLACE WITH
20.000 EURO

4TH PLACE WITH
15.000 EURO

5TH PLACE WITH
10.000 EURO

2ND PLACE WITH
25.000 EURO

3RD PLACE WITH
20.000 EURO

4TH PLACE WITH
15.000 EURO

5TH PLACE WITH
10.000 EURO

In addition to the five grand prize winners, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation awards honorary prizes, each worth 2,000 euros in prize money.

2018

Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium mannheim,
Title: „Difital Education LFG“

The first prize, worth 30,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium, which has developed a particularly future-oriented and sustainable concept. It forms the basis of a wide range of projects, some of which are realised in individual school classes of different levels and some of which are offered as working groups across classes. All these options integrate IT skills and media literacy as laid down in the curriculum as an interdisciplinary overall competence. The possibilities of digital media are used in many ways and with very constructive results.
In particular, the jury welcomes the fact that the underlying concept has been developed by a working group from among the teaching staff of the school, which resulted in an interdisciplinary school curriculum.

Johannes-Brenz-Schule Stuttgart,
Title: „Mobile learning with iPads in an inclusive primary setting“

The second prize, worth 25,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a primary school that uses digital media to implement inclusive education successfully and enable handicapped children to participate in regular school lessons. The entire teaching staff of the school helped develop a highly detailed media curriculum and a development plan for the purchase and use of digital media. Planning is guided by the conditions of real school lessons, which are mainly realised in an open-learning environment and take into account the heterogeneity among pupils. During independent study periods, the children learn in different places and settings. A flexible technical solution makes it possible under the heading of “Mobile Learning with iPads”.

Schule im Taubertal,
Title: „encounters in the animated film workshop“

The third prize, worth 20,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a special school, which educates children with and without handicaps under one roof. What makes the project “Encounters in the Animated Film Workshop” special is the fact that pupils with special educational needs learn how animated films are produced and can act as skilled experts themselves. In cooperative classes, they share their knowledge with pupils without special educational needs, whereupon all children produce animated films together.
The jury acknowledges the media-teaching approach, which not only has an activating effect on the pupils, but also achieves that children living with handicaps can experience themselves as competent.

Hardbergschule mosbach,
Title: „Contemporary meda education with iPads“

Due to the outstanding submissions, the fourth place, worth 15,000 euros in prize money, was awarded twice this year. The first of these prizes went to a special school with 110 pupils, which generates great interest with innovative projects (e.g. with the pupils’ company “Neonboards”) quite frequently.
Hardbergschule convinced the jury with the fact that it uses digital media in many, always cooperative, ways, which means that it implements a media-teaching approach that motivates and activates its pupils. In addition to the collaboration with different partners, it was the sustainability of the project that convinced the jury.

Kaufmännische Schule Hechingen,
Title: „Christm@s 4.0 - cultural heritage in the digital age“

The second fourth-prize winner, which also received 15,000 euros in prize money, clearly defined the project objectives in its application, emphasising the reinforcement of the pupils’ community of its school as the most important goal. The school’s media concept consists of a variety of subprojects for all types of school, classes and disciplines, which combine subject-related learning and the acquisition of IT skills and media literacy. All these projects have a productive and cooperative nature. With “Christmas 4.0”, a comprehensive topic, they picked a subject of interest for all pupils.

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Place: Salomo Schule Rastatt,
Title: „Fit for Future“

The fifth place, worth 10,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a Realschule (intermediate secondary school), which describes the importance of IT and media education as a key competency for the labour market.
The pupils play a particularly active role: They create a portfolio that documents their own development of these key competencies. This way, the young people reflect their learning progress, bringing together specialist and media projects.
In particular, the jury welcomes the teaching methodology to use media in a meaningful way, which is demonstrated in a large number of good didactic examples.

2017

Place: Ottmar-Mergenthaler-Realschule,
Title: „OMRS goes digital“

Place:Haus am Dornbuschweg (SBBZ-Special education centre),
Title „Participation in digital society“

Place: Grundschule Schnait,
Title: „Media cats– a way to digital literacy“

Place: Gustav-Werner-Schule Heilbronn (Vocational school),
Title: „Curriculum unit company sart-up. Teaching in a practical and media-oriented way“

Place: Zabergäu-Gymnasium Brackenheim,
Title: „Fake News“

Honorary Prize

Jerg Ratgeb Realschule Herrenberg,
Title: „Explain it to me“

Hardbergschule Mosbach (SBBZ),
Title: „Media education in a special education centre“

Mandelberg-Grundschule Wertheim-Dertingen
(Primary school)

Grundschule Langenbrettach (Primary school),
Title: „Digital local stories“

2014

2012

Kaywaldschule,
Lauffen (SBBZ)

Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium,
Heilbronn

Schule für Gestaltung, Kolping-Bildungszentrum,
Heilbronn (Vocational college)

DIE SCHULE Schrozberg
(GWRS)

Lindenparkschule,
Heilbronn (SBBZ)

Georg-Kropp-Schule,
Wüstenrot (Comprehensive school)

Leintal-Werkrealschule,
Schwaigern (WRS= Technical intermediate secondary school)

Mörike-Realschule,
Heilbronn (intermediate secondary school)

Birkenbachschule,
Kirchardt (GWRS)

Freiherr-von-Zobel-Schule,
Großrinderfeld (Primary school)

2011

Pater-Alois-Grimm-Schule,
Kühlsheim (Comprehensive school)

Elly-Heuss-Knapp,
Heilbronn (GHWRS=Primary school and secondary general school with technical intermediate secondary school)

Kath. Freies Bildungszentrum St. Kilian,
Heilbronn

Hartmanni-Gymnasium,
Eppingen (GYM=Grammar school)

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium,
Neckarsulm (GYM)

Johann-Dietz-Grundschule,
Ellhofen (Primary school)

Albert-Schweitzer-Schule,
Öhringen (SBBZ)

Impressions

Would you like to participate in the next School Prize competition of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation with your school? Just complete the registration form below to register your school for the kick-off event in January 2019. The aim will then send you a confirmation and any other information by email. Please note that you can register for participation in the kick-off event only via the registration form below. You do not have to participate in the kick-off event in order to participate in the School Prize competition.

Process School Prize Competition

Registration

Register for the School Prize competition via the registration form.
Attend information meeting

Attend our meeting on 19 July 2019 starting at 2:00 p.m. at the aim to obtain further information and participate in workshops to prepare for the competition.
Develop media concept

Develop your media concept over the year.
Meet deadline

Submit the completed media concept and your application in a digital format to the aim by 4 November 2019 at the latest: schulpreis@aim-akademie.org.

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First selection phase

We will invite the schools with the 20 best projects for a pitch presentation on 24/25 January 2020.
Award ceremony

The award ceremony of the School Prize will then take place in the first week of March 2020.

Registration school price COMPETITION

In this section, you will find answers to the most frequently asked questions:

Müssen die Konzepte bereits vollständig an der Schule umgesetzt sein?

Nein, die Konzeptelemente müssen noch nicht komplett umgesetzt sein. Jedoch sollten bereits erste Ansätze vorhanden sein und in Ihrer Bewerbung – neben der geplanten Konzeption – auch der Status quo sowie Ihre Erfahrungen dargestellt werden.

Können mehrere Bewerbungen pro Schule eingereicht werden?

Nein. Da es sich um Schulkonzepte handelt, ist nur eine Einreichung pro Schule möglich.

Ich bin Referendar. Kann ich ebenfalls teilnehmen?

Jede an einer Schule tätige (angehende) Lehrkraft kann eine Bewerbung einreichen. Beachten Sie jedoch, dass die Bewerbung im Namen der Schule, an der Sie tätig sind, gilt. Der etwaige Gewinn wird der Schule zugesprochen, nicht der einreichenden Lehrkraft.

Es wurde u.a. ein Musikvideo erstellt, die Rechte sind aber noch nicht geklärt. Was tun?

Die von Ihnen eingereichten Unterlagen bzw. digitalen Elemente werden nur intern gesichtet. Es findet keine Veröffentlichung statt. Daher können Sie auch solche Elemente einreichen. Wir bitten jedoch um einen entsprechenden Vermerk.

Wir sind in einem Schulverbund mit einer anderen Schule. Können wir ein gemeinsames Konzept einreichen?

Selbstverständlich können Sie ein gemeinsames Konzept einreichen. Bitte vermerken Sie auf der Bewerbung, das es sich um das Gemeinschaftskonzept mehrerer Schulen handelt.

Do you have any questions regarding the School Prize competition?

Jury member Prof. Dr. Thomas Raith will be happy to answer your questions relating to the selection criteria, conditions of participation, issues regarding the content of the media concept and much more!