!The deadline got extended until Sunday, August 31st, 2025!
Dear fellow students
for the autonomous tutorials, we are once again looking for students from all departments who would like to work together with fellow students for a semester on an academic topic of their choice and offer it as a tutorial. The tutorials are intended to provide a framework not only for students to set their own priorities in terms of content, but also to try out other forms of joint discussion. As the leader (alone or in pairs) of a tutorial, you will be responsible for developing an approach to your topic and structuring the weekly tutorials.
The application should be in the form of a concept (3-5 pages), stating why you are interested in your topic and what research interest you are pursuing. We explicitly do not require that you are already an undisputed expert. We would particularly welcome applications with an interdisciplinary topic, for example between technical sciences and social sciences.
Each tutorial is remunerated with 360 euros/month for a period of five months.
The application deadline is Sunday, August 31st, 2025.
On Tuesday, August 5th at 6 p.m. and Monday, August 25th at 5 p.m., two application counseling sessions will take place via the video conferencing tool "Senfcall". You can use the following link to participate: https://lecture.senfcall.de/mic-wun-xid-wdc
If you have any questions or need help writing your concept, please contact us by e-mail at any time.
The selection committee discusses applications from female* students before anyone else and selects all those who meet the selection criteria, thereby increasing the chance of getting one of the places. In this way, we hope to encourage more female* students to apply for the autonomous tutorials in the long term.
We look forward to receiving your applications!
Criteria
The following selection criteria are decisive:
- Selection is based on the topic and stringency of the concept submitted
- The concept should clearly state the content and objectives of the tutorial
- Inclusion of a rough outline of the procedure, the theses and questions pursued
- a list of the underlying literature or literature to be dealt with
- Should meet current academic standards
- Expected interest of students
- Tutorials with a critical view of their respective discipline or reflection on the social context of the sciences fulfill our claim of wanting to offer an alternative to teaching, not only in terms of form but also in terms of content.
- Insofar as the concept overlaps thematically with regular teaching content, it should differ in the way it is approached.
- We make sure that the tutorials are spread across as many subject areas as possible
- Please do not submit applications for language courses. We do not consider the autonomous tutorials to be the appropriate format for holding language courses. The AStA is campaigning in many other places for the lack of language courses and an expanded offer.
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The following requirements must also be met:
- Enrolled at the TU Darmstadt
- Participation in 3 organisational meetings of all tutors
- Willingness to support advertising measures
- The tutorial can be led alone or in pairs
- Only one application may be submitted. This application may can contain one or two concepts, of which only one can be selected.
- for doctoral students: only without a teaching function at TU Darmstadt
The selection committee will discuss applications from non-male students first and outside of the competition. We hope that this will contribute to greater gender diversity among tutors in the long term.
In addition, we will give preference to concepts submitted by students who have not yet offered an autonomous tutorial. We also welcome concepts submitted jointly by former and prospective tutors.
If you have already applied in previous semesters and have not been accepted, do not hesitate to apply again with the same concept.
Here are a few examples of applications from previous semesters:
↦ To the application form
The application documents must be submitted in anonymized form. Please make sure that your concept does not contain any references to your person, names or even photos. Simply fill out the online application form check your details and send it off. Only the title of the concept, the concept and your specified gender will be sent to the selection committee.
Contact us at@asta.tu-darmstadt.de
Since we as project coordinators are also part of the selection committee, please do not send us any questions relating to the specific content of your concepts.