Key Skills / Soft Skills

Nowadays, for a successful carreer it is rarely sufficient to hold a maximum of expert knowledge. Especially the structured promotion program wants to develop social competences and key skills such as communicative abilities, self-confidence, intuition, capacity for team work, capacity for criticism, analytical competence, reliability, self-discipline, curiosity, capacity for dealing with conflicts, and authority.

Certainly, many of these abilites cannot be acquired during just three years of a dissertation project, but will result only from long-term professional and life experiences. Some of them, however, can be trained and successfully practised. In this field, there is a broad range of courses, offered i.a. from Fortbildungszentrum Hochschullehre (FBZHL), the successful completion of which is recognized by PEER.

CP: Credit point
SWS: hours weekly during the semester