The DIES Legendi took place on November 28, 2024 in the Alte Mensa. During the event, the teaching award winners from faculties 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 08 and 09 as well as the Mainz School of Music and Mainz Academy of Fine Arts from the winter semester 2023/2024 and the summer semester 2024 were honored. The event collected the opportunity to talk to the teaching award winners and exchange ideas with co-workers. This year, the DIES Legendi was also dedicated to the topic of “Good teaching in times of AI“.

4:30 pm

Information stands on digital teaching and AI at JGU

5:00 pm

Greeting
Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching

5:15 pm

Awarding of the teaching prize winners
by the Vice President for Learning and Teaching, Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie

Discussion with the teaching award winners on good teaching in times of AI
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Andrej Gill, Director of the GLK, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Altmeyer, Deputy Director of the GLK

6:30 pm

Farewell and thanks
Prof. Dr. Andrej Gill, Director of the GLK

Champagne reception
with musical accompaniment (Ayla Trio)

In addition to awarding the teaching prizes for winter semester 2021/2022 and summer semester 2022, the DIES LEGENDI 2022 focused on anchoring the topic of sustainability in teaching at JGU. Among other things, teaching staff discussed what contribution they would like to make to this topic in teaching at JGU. The DIES LEGENDI also provided a great opportunity to meet old and new acquaintances who are also committed to good teaching at JGU.

From 16:30 Tour of poster sessions

on GLK projects

17:10 Welcome

Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie, Vice President of JGU
Prof. Dr. Margarete Imhof, Deputy Director of the GLK

17:05 Ceremonial presentation of the teaching awards

Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching

Teaching award winners from faculties 03, 04, 05, 09 and 10 and the School of Art and Design

17:30 What is ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) and why does it affect us all?

Inga Thao My Bui, student and climate activist(letterpress contribution and poem)
Prof. Dr. Margarete Imhof, Deputy Director of the Gutenberg Teaching College
Prof. Dr. Holger Tost, Institute of Atmospheric Physics

17:45 Participation event on ESD at JGU

How do you envision ESD at JGU?
How can / would you like to participate in ESD in teaching?
What could be your subject’s contribution to ESD?

18:50 Summary and farewell

Overall moderation: Isabell Zipperle, M.Sc., FB 03, Public and Behavioral Economics

The annual DIES LEGENDI is a day of special honor for teaching at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The JGU Teaching Awards and the Gutenberg Teaching Award are presented in recognition of outstanding achievements in teaching and innovative aspects of teaching are presented and discussed. This year, the results of the first Gutenberg Ideeathlon will also be presented at the DIES LEGENDI. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the DIES LEGENDI 2020 will be held online using the BigBlueButton conference system.

10:00 Welcome

Professor Dr. Georg Krausch, President of JGU
Professor Dr. Andreas Hildebrandt, Director of the GLK

10:10 Ceremonial presentation of the teaching awards

Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching

Excerpts from the discussion between the prizewinners and the President

10:20 Presentation of the Gutenberg Teaching Award

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hildebrandt, Director of the GLK
Teaser for the presentation of the Gutenberg Teaching Award to Prof. Geoffrey Brennan and Prof. Mills Kelly

10:30 Closing Gutenberg Ideeathlon

Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching

Presentation of the results of the individual challenge groups
Virtual panel discussion of the challenge mentors
Participant voting: feasibility, impact, creativity of the challenge results

12:30 Farewell

Professor Dr. Andreas Hildebrandt, Director of the GLK

In order to pay tribute to the achievements of the teaching staff this year and to give them space for discussion, the GLK organized a round table discussion with the President of JGU, Professor Georg Krausch, in the run-up to the DIES LEGENDI on 6 October 2020, which was dedicated to the question of good teaching, especially in these extraordinary times. Two student participants were also invited to the discussion to substitute this perspective as well.

Due to this year’s extraordinary situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Gutenberg Teaching Award ceremony also took place virtually. The Gutenberg Teaching Award for 2018 goes to Prof. Geoffrey Brennan, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, for his development and leadership of innovative interdisciplinary degree programs and his decades-long commitment to young researchers. The 2019 prize was awarded to Professor Mills Kelly, Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, for his innovative teaching methods in history and his publications on teaching in the digital age, among other things