Winners 2025
The Machelor's course Friendship and its Others by Divya Nadkarni en Tjalling Valdés Olmos is the winner of the FGw Education Award 2025. The course explores the politically transformative qualities of friendship in our era of rising polarisation, cancel culture and populism. The Audience Award went to the course Byzantium.
Nominated courses
All staff and students of the Faculty of Humanities were invited to nominate a course for the Education Award before 16 May 2025. From these nominated courses, the jury then made a selection. Watch videos of all nominated courses below.
The award ceremony was on Thursday, 26 June 2025 in VOX-POP.
Anna Lawrence talks about the course Art and Anxiety.
Aylin Kuryel, also speaking on behalf of colleague Noa Roei, talks about the course Images and their Lifeworlds: the Politics of Contemporary Visual Cultures.
Tjalling Valdés Olmos and Divya Nadkarni talk about the course Friendship and its Others: Coexistence, Coalitions, Conflict, and Care
Esther Mulders talks about the course Byzantium. Kunst van het Oost-Romeinse Rijk
Marijke Scheffener talks, in Dutch Sign Language, about the subject of Dutch Sign Language.
Shahin Nasiri talks about the Literature, Empathy and Moral Imagination course.
