Professors

Our experienced academic development team supports teaching staff at HFT Stuttgart in all aspects of their teaching practice. Whether you are seeking individual advice on a specific challenge, exploring suitable e-learning approaches, looking to exchange ideas with colleagues, planning a qualitative evaluation of one of your courses, or developing a curriculum, we offer practical guidance tailored to your needs.

The team also shapes the university’s programme of workshops and events on teaching and learning in higher education, covering current topics and creating opportunities for professional exchange. Further initiatives, including HFT Stuttgart’s Learning and Teaching Day and the university’s Teaching Award, provide fresh inspiration and encourage ongoing reflection on and development of good teaching.

Event programm

Events are offered especially for lecturers, providing space for exchange and inspiration on the following university didactic topics: Teaching and learning, examining, advising, evaluating and innovating. Information on the current event program and registration can be found on our Wiki page.

Teachers can find further workshops on university didactics topics at the GHD.

In addition, the "Neckar-Connection", a cooperation between the HFT Stuttgart and the Hochschule Esslingen, the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, the Hochschule Reutlingen and the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, provides teachers with further university didactics courses.

University didactic qualification

The quality of studies and teaching is a central concern of HFT Stuttgart. Our GOOD TEACHING qualification program for newly appointed professors, comprising 120 work units, is therefore also an integral part of the appointment agreement. As part of the qualification program, professors have access to various individual consulting and support services, a variety of workshops on university didactics topics as well as numerous collegial exchange and networking formats from which they can choose according to their needs.

Since winter semester 2024/25, lecturers and academic staff have also the opportunity to complete a higher education didactics qualification programme (60 units). It is aimed at people who would like to develop the basics of higher education didactics or who would like to continue their training in higher education didactics. The qualification programme is also suitable for prospective professors.

Advice, coachings and networking opportunities

For lecturers we offer individual advice and support services as well as networking events:

Advice on all topics relating to teaching and learning, e-learning, curriculum development, etc.
Teacher coaching and english coaching
TAP evaluations and teaching observations
English course for professors

Day of learning and teaching

SkiLL organizes the annual Day of Learning and Teaching, which is aimed at teachers, students and other interested parties. With a different motto each year, the aim of the event is to

to learn about best-practice examples within and outside HFT, take away new ideas and be inspired
to contribute your own ideas and get into conversation
to use the space for exchange and reflection

Teaching award

Every two years, HFT Stuttgart honors special commitment to teaching by awarding the university's own teaching prize. The aim is to recognize particularly motivated and committed teachers who inspire their students for the subject and successfully plan and conduct their courses didactically.

The evaluation committee selects a winner based on the evaluation criteria derived from the HFT Stuttgart's mission statement for teaching and learning. The evaluation committee is composed as follows: