Scholarships an prizes for employees
Listed below are scholarships and prizes for University staff.
The peer-nominated teaching award
Each year, Luleå University of Technology presents a teaching award to recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions to education. The award is peer-nominated – by teachers, for teachers – and aims to highlight excellent examples of pedagogy and learning.
Theme for 2026: Adapting education in response to the development of AI
In 2026, we particularly wish to recognise teachers who have adapted courses and programmes to meet future needs, ensuring that course content and assessment remain relevant and reflect current demands and developments in AI.
In this context, adapting education in response to developments in AI may, for example, include:
- Fostering AI literacy, including how students learn to use, critically evaluate, and engage with AI tools responsibly
- Developing teaching methods or forms of assessment
- Using AI as a pedagogical support for students, for instance in the form of personal tutors or feedback tools
- To disseminate good practice and the use of AI to enhance student learning
- Integrating AI into course design or delivery
How do I nominate someone?
In your nomination, describe how the proposed teacher has adapted education in response to the development of AI.
Please note: The initiative does not need to have been carried out within the last year. Work conducted in previous years may also be nominated if it remains relevant.
To help you write your nomination, you may consider the following questions:
- What has the colleague done?
- How has it been implemented in practice?
- Why was the change made – what need or purpose was behind it?
- What impact has it had on students (e.g., learning or engagement)?
Award and Presentation
Each award corresponds to two base amounts (prisbasbelopp), each rounded to the nearest 5,000 SEK, and is allocated as funding for the recipient’s professional development at Luleå University of Technology.
Who can nominate?
All employees at Luleå University of Technology are welcome to submit nominations. Self-nominations are not permitted.
Nominations must be submitted via the online form below. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2026 award is 2026-09-13.
If you have questions, please contact:
Maria Krantz
VSS/Utbildnings- och forskningsplanering
E-mail: maria.krantz@ltu.se
Phone: 0920-49 14 31
Rules for peer-nominated teaching award (Appendix 3, LTU-1576-2025, replaces LTU-1310-2023)
1. The prize is awarded for good pedagogical efforts, such as the development of learning
activities, teaching methods, examination methods, or improved results in the form of
increased learning. Each year, a theme is determined for the announcement of the prize.
2. The prize winner is responsible for conducting a seminar open to all university teachers
during the year following the receipt of the prize.
3. Up to two prizes are awarded each year. Several people can share the same prize. One
prize corresponds to two base amounts and is paid out for the costs of the person's
professional development at Luleå University of Technology.
4. The same prize winner cannot be selected more frequently than every eight years.
5. Nominations can be made by university staff. It is not possible to nominate oneself.
Nominations are made in a web form according to instructions in connection with the
announcement on the university's website.
6. Eligible for nomination are teachers employed at Luleå University of Technology.
7. Nominations are saved in a nomination pool, and prize winners can be selected from it.
The nominations are saved for three years.
8. An assessment group prepares the matter and submits proposals for prize winners to the
vice-chancellor.
The assessment group consists of:
− Two representatives jointly appointed by the student unions
− A representative from the Centre for Educational Development
− Deputy vice-chancellor for education and quality
− An official from Education and Research Planning Unit
9. The final meeting of the assessment group is recorded. The final protocol should state
which individuals are proposed as prize winners, with a brief justification.
10. The prize winners are selected by the vice-chancellor. The vice-chancellor or the vice
chancellor’s appointee informs the prize winners.
11. The prizes are awarded during the academic celebration week.
12. The prizes are paid from the vice-chancellor’s discretionary fund (account 805). Each base
amount is rounded to the nearest five thousand.
This document is an informal translation of the Swedish original, generated using an automatic translation
service. In the event of any discrepancy between the translated document and the Swedish original, the
original shall prevail.
Nordea scientific prize 2026
In 2006, Nordea Norrland Foundation established a scientific prize for researchers at Luleå University of Technology. The prize is awarded to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of scientific research and development in areas that can be assumed to be of importance to the bank's operations.
The awardee is appointed by a committee consisting of the vice-chancellor, the dean of the technical faculty committee and the philosophy faculty committee, and the office manager at Nordea's office in Luleå, who is also chairman.
The prize sum of SEK 100,000 is awarded in connection with the Academic Ceremony in November.
Heads of department are hereby invited to nominate prize winners for Nordea's scientific prize. The nomination must include a short justification (max. 1 page) that describes the researcher's scientific production, structure of the research group and supervision efforts. CV including list of publications must be attached.
Price sum: SEK 100,000
Announcer: Nordea Norrlandsstiftelse, Nordea
The nomination must be sent no later than 2026-05-29 to: ltu-tfnadm@mailbox.ltu.se
Vattenfall award a prize for the best doctoral thesis at Luleå University of Technology
The prize is awarded at the Academic Ceremony autumn 2026.
Head of Department is responsible for the nomination of maximum three thesis. Each nomination must be accompanied by a short justification, the maximum number of characters 2000 (= about ½ A4 page), and a link to the thesis. The nominees must have defended their thesis autumn term 2025 – spring term 2026, ie 1 September 2025 – 20 June 2026.
The winner is appointed jointly by the Chairpersons of the Faculty Boards, after special preparation. The winner must have an approved dissertation.
Nominated theses are assessed based on the following criteria:
- show an unusually high scientific quality
- moves the boundaries of the discipline and is opening up new areas for research
- show unusually high novelty and originality
Nominations are sent to hanna.gradin@ltu.se
Price amount: 75 000 SEK
Deadline for nominations: 2026-06-21
Skytteanska samfundet's award for outstanding young researchers
The board of Skytteanska samfundet awards a prize to the most deserving young researcher at Luleå University of Technology. The members of the society and/or professors and associate professors at the Faculty of Technology submit proposals for award winners. The proposals are then reviewed by review committees within each faculty, after which the Board appoints the winners. The prize money is SEK 30,000 and the prize is awarded at the spring course closure.
Award winners from Luleå University of Technology will be celebrated at the Academic Ceremony in November.
The Polhem Prize
The Polhem Prize is a prize awarded for high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technological problem. The innovation must be available on the open market and have been found to be competitive. It must also be sustainably environmentally friendly. A committee selects the nominees for the award. The eight members of the nomination committee have expertise in a wide range of technology areas, and all members of the association Engineers of Sweden can submit nominations to the committee. In addition, technical colleges and universities and the business community are invited to make suggestions.
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