Station 3 - Entrepreneurial Skills Personal Skills Modules
Summer semester 2025
Successful in a Team: Mastering Leadership and Team Dynamics
In this module, you will acquire the skills that are essential for successful teamwork and project management. You will learn how to build effective teams, resolve conflicts constructively and confidently fulfill leadership roles. You will learn methods for promoting team cohesion and creating a productive working atmosphere. You will also learn to recognize and apply tools for constructively overcoming conflicts within the team. Various leadership styles are introduced and their application in different situations is practiced. Techniques for the effective coordination of tasks and clear communication within the team are also covered, as well as recognizing and managing team dynamics and understanding the distribution of roles and hierarchies. The aim is to enable you to work successfully in teams, to move projects forward together and to fill leadership roles competently. The module is characterized by practice-oriented exercises and case studies, role plays and simulations, individual feedback and coaching as well as the application of the skills learned to your own team projects. The target group includes students from all disciplines who want to improve their team and leadership skills, students who want to prepare for future team projects in their studies or professional life and students who want to develop their leadership skills.
Winter semester 2025/2026
Disrupt Yourself: Become the designer of your future!
The module encourages students to actively put themselves in the role of the entrepreneur - not only in a professional context, but also with regard to their personal development. They learn to see their own life as an entrepreneurial innovation project in which they themselves take responsibility for direction, strategy and implementation. By examining their strengths, values and goals, they develop a sharpened personal profile and compare their individual prerequisites with the requirements for successful founders and entrepreneurial personalities in organizations.
Present with Conviction: Rhetoric and Presentation Skills for Every Occasion
This module is aimed at students who want to take their communication skills to a new level. Regardless of whether you want to present an innovative project idea, present scientific results or simply appear confident in discussions - here you will acquire the basics for convincing presentations. You will learn the rhetorical basics to ensure clear, structured and appealing communication. You will also learn how to design visual aids (e.g. pitch decks) that effectively support your message. The use of non-verbal communication to strengthen your presence and credibility is practiced, as are strategies for overcoming nervousness and increasing self-confidence. Constructive engagement with feedback and the promotion of dialog with the audience round off the module. The aim is to give you the skills to present convincingly in any situation and to communicate your ideas successfully. It serves as a foundation for further specialized pitch training or other communication requirements in your studies and professional life. The module is characterized by practice-oriented exercises and role plays, individual feedback and coaching as well as the application of the skills learned to your own presentation projects. The target group includes students from all disciplines who want to improve their presentation and public speaking skills, students who want to prepare for future presentations in their studies or professional life and students who want to communicate their ideas confidently and convincingly.
Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Project Management University Diploma
As part of the 4EU+ European University Alliance, partner universities Sorbonne, Milan, Paris, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Heidelberg are offering a diploma on "Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Project Management". The diploma is designed for recently graduated students who want to use their expertise and energy for an innovative project and who want to learn how to work in a team and be introduced to a multidisciplinary approach. The program that takes place for one academic year conveys entrepreneurial and project management skills in order to work for a big company, to join a start-up or to be involved into the development of an association or an organization committed into e.g. social economy or ecological transition. Participants will acquire 5 ECTS points.