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Our new supplementary degree programme

08/07/2025

The supplementary degree programme leading to the Professional Skills Certificate consists of 20 ECTS credits, which you can earn over a period of four semesters. You will take one module worth 5 ECTS credits per semester. The certification programme can be started in either the summer or winter semester. The application deadline for the 2025/26 winter semester is 15 September.

The aim of the certificate programme is to prepare students for the global job market of the future and to sensitise them during their studies to professional activities and contexts that may not yet exist or are difficult to plan and predict. Professional skills enable students to independently plan and make the necessary adjustments. Students can choose courses from six areas of competence and thus document and certify their personal development and level of knowledge: professional and methodological competence, communicative competence, social competence, self-competence, intercultural competence and digital competence.

By obtaining the Professional Skills Certificate, which students in bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes can include in their application portfolio, students and employers receive proof that they have a high degree of self-organisation and decision-making skills to best meet the requirements of the world of work 4.0.

The Professional Skills Certificate consists of 20 ECTS credits, which you can earn over a period of four semesters. 10 ECTS credits from the compulsory area and 10 ECTS credits from the elective area, from which you can choose two areas. This means that you must attend a total of four modules, each worth 5 ECTS credits.

1. Two modules from the compulsory area (10 ECTS credits)

  • Communicative competence (5 ECTS credits)

  • Self-competence (5 ECTS credits)

2. Selection of two modules from the compulsory elective area (10 ECTS credits)

  • Professional and methodological competence (5 ECTS credits)
  • Intercultural competence (5 ECTS credits)
  • Digital competence (5 ECTS credits)
  • Social competence (5 ECTS credits)

3. Examination: Portfolio (certificate with a total of 20 ECTS)

More information can be found here