Best Practice-Based Research Award

The EAPRIL Best Practice-Based Research Award wishes to acknowledge an outstanding and innovative project that deals with learning and development in the workplace and educational field.

More specifically, practice-based research which has a profound impact on the development of both theory and practice is particularly of interest.

Guidelines

The EAPRIL Best Practice-Based Research Award is handed out every year at the annual EAPRIL Conference. The submissions for the EAPRIL 2025 award are open now.

The award procedure consists of two phases:

Phase 1: Submission and Nomination

  • Submit your project via the EAPRIL system by the submission deadline. Detailed submission guidelines can be found here.
  • An appointed Awarding Committee will thoroughly review all submissions.
  • Based on their review results, selected projects will be officially nominated for the Award.

Phase 2: Evaluation and Awarding

  • Nominated projects will prepare an elevator pitch and a project flyer.
  • Nominees will present their projects during the plenary Award Session at the EAPRIL Conference
  • The winner will be announced and awarded on the final day of the conference, based on the pitch, flyer, and oral presentation.

EAPRIL Award Winners

Award Winner 2024
project by Ottavia Trevisan & Filippo Marcato
"Te(A)chThink Project"

Award Winner 2023
Project by Yrjö Engeström & team, presented by Pauliina Rantavuori.
"In Search for Significance: The Change Laboratory interventions with adolescent students"

Award Winner 2022
Ning Ding and team
"Student Learning Ambassadors: A bridge to professional practices"

Award Winner 2021
Anouke Bakx and team
"POINT: A sustainable educational research lab for professionalization in the field of giftedness"

Award Winner 2020
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Award Winner 2019
Eric Roldan Roa and team
"MusicMath Methodology: a creative / innovative approach for teaching and learning mathematics"

Award Winner 2018
Erkko Sointu and team
"Flipping Finland"

Award Winner 2017
Heidi Knipprath and team
"Integrated STEM makes a difference"

Award Winner 2016
Harry Stokhof
"Teacher guidance for effective student questioning"

Award Winner 2015
Kim Schildkamp
"Data team procedure for professional development and school improvement"

Award Winner 2014
Alberto Cattaneo
"Using mobile technologies for helping apprentice chefs to assemble learning experiences from various arts and places - a project of the Leading House "Dual-T Technologies for vocational training"

Award Winners 2013
Anette & Geoff Hilton
"Proportional reasoning as a key to numeracy across the curriculum: A collaboration between practitioners and researchers"

Award Winner 2012
Luc Nijs
"The Music Paint Machine. An embodied constructivist approach to technology-enhanced instrumental music instruction"

Best Poster Award

Each year EAPRIL also hands out a Best Poster Award during the EAPRIL Conference to recognise the poster with the best overall research design, visual design and oral presentation. The aim of the award is to offer attention, appreciation and recognition to posters and to involve conference participants in the awarding procedure.

Congratulations are in order for presenting author Bianca Claus and co-authors, for winning the EAPRIL Best Poster Award 2024!

best poster award