Registration period lottery:
14.04.25 (12 noon) –
17.04.25 (12 noon)
Academic skills are essential for successfully learning, researching and analyzing knowledge in a university context. They promote the application and effective communication of academic content, encourage the transfer of acquired knowledge into practice and support the development of individual ideas and perspectives.
Digital literacy is the prerequisite for moving in a digital world in a responsible, reflective and goal-oriented manner. It includes information literacy (researching, evaluating, applying), data literacy (e.g. data management, FAIR criteria, data visualization), aspects of open science (e.g. open access, open software), collaborative scientific work with digital tools, the responsible use of text-generating AI and legal principles.
Personal development is a lifelong process that aims to increase one’s own well-being, develop strategies for a healthy lifestyle and better understand oneself and others through reflection. The aim is to master academic and professional challenges independently, to promote personal growth in a sustainable way and to establish long-term strategies for a successful, fulfilling life.
Responsibility means ensuring that everything goes as well as possible, that the necessary and right things are done and that no harm is done. To this end, the HoC promotes self-reflection skills, personal responsibility and social and ethical responsibility.
Sustainability means satisfying the needs of the global present in such a way that people and nature are not restricted today and tomorrow. To this end, the HoC promotes: gaining clarity about values and goals, adopting different perspectives, communicating with appreciation and compassion, focusing on cooperation and, last but not least, taking action – persistently, courageously and creatively.
The focus here is on skills that are indispensable in work contexts – whether as a founder or employee, in voluntary work or when taking on care work. They help to manage tasks professionally on a factual level and to organize work in such a way that it is fulfilling for oneself and others. These include communicative and social skills, creative, analytical and organizational skills as well as self-competence for personal development.