Event details

Understanding Motivation and Developing Motivational Competence

| LVNr.: 9001022 | Block (B)
Format: Online
Free places: 1
Lecturer: Müller-Hotop, Raphael

Registration period lottery:

14.04.26 (12 noon) –

17.04.26 (12 noon)

If places are available – registration possible until:
17.06.26 07:00 UHR

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

What exactly is motivation? Why am I sometimes motivated for something and other times not? Does my motivation have something to do with my performance? And how is my motivation related to achieving my goals?

In this seminar you will learn to understand (your) motivation and how it is related not only to your performance and goals, but especially to your mental health. You will develop what psychological science calls “motivational competence”, a key competence for all those who want to take responsibility for their learning behavior, their development, and ultimately the creation of their own life path.

Lecturer interview with Raphael Müller-Hotop: Motivation and emotion regulation

Work Expenditure:

2 ECTS: After each of the three online sessions, participants will have to edit a logbook and hand it in before the start of the following session.

Apppintments:

18.06.2026 14:00 Uhr – 18.06.2026 18:00 Uhr (Online)
09.07.2026 14:00 Uhr – 09.07.2026 18:00 Uhr (Online)
23.07.2026 14:00 Uhr – 23.07.2026 18:00 Uhr (Online)

Literature:

Keine Literaturangaben.

Content-Rating (Definitions)

Academic Skills

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

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

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

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

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.

Work Environment

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.