Congratulations to Katarina Mårtensson who has been awarded the honorable Spirit of ICED Award

Published 16 September 2025
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Professor Katarina Mårtensson has been awarded the honorable Spirit of ICED Award and will be presented with the award in person at ICED’s conference in Salamanca, Spain next year

Award recipients are individuals or groups who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in educational development and made contributions towards advancing ICED’s* object and aims in relation to the following criteria:

  • Perceived opportunities for expanding the boundaries of educational development and acted to bring visions to reality.
  • Used evidence to bravely challenge and improve existing educational development practice.
  • Actively disseminated educational development practice and/or theory across boundaries.
  • Provided a role model to educational developers.

Katarina will be presented with the award in person at ICED’s conference in Salamanca, Spain from 23-26 June next year - https://iced26.es/.

The object of ICED is to advance education worldwide by promoting, sustaining, and increasing individual and collective knowledge and understanding of all aspects of educational development in higher education.

*ICED - International Consortium for Educational Development