Nominations open for the Maffioli Award 2025!

The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education

SEFI members are invited to nominate their outstanding faculty members for the 2025 SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence in Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education!

The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award, established in honour of the late SEFI President Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Politecnico di Milano), recognises individual teachers or teams from SEFI member institutions for their innovative contributions to engineering education. This prestigious award recognises open-minded development of curriculum, learning environments or tools, novel didactics, methods or systems in engineering studies.

Only SEFI institutional members can nominate awardees.

• The award consists of a formal presentation at the SEFI Annual Conference 2025 in Tampere, Finland, and free registration to attend the conference (one person, if a team).
• The Chair of the 2025 Francesco Maffioli Award is Dr Johanna Naukkarinen, LUT University, member of SEFI Board of Directors.
• Nominations must be sent to Dr Naukkarinen, johanna.naukkarinen@lut.fi,with copy to SEFI HQ, office@sefi.be.
• The deadline for submission is Friday, 16 MAY 2025.

Get inpired by last year’s winner: Dr. Ir. Volkert van Steijn and the Pre-University Team, Associate Professor and Programme Director Bachelor Molecular Science & Technology and the pre-university Team Lead in the Department of Chemical Engineering/Applied Science University, TU Delft, Netherlands.

Find out more about all our awards here.