About the ZSK
The Center of Key Competencies comprehensively covers the range of soft skills with the competence areas of self-competence, social competence and methodological competence. Our topics are adapted to engineers and their everyday studies and work. Find out more about our six areas of focus here:
Bear responsibility
In a rapidly changing technological world with many options, it is a challenge to orientate oneself and also to think about ethical aspects. Learn how to deal with ethical issues and make difficult decisions, taking into account the possible consequences of your actions. Deal with your own value system and reflect on it also with regard to future (leadership) tasks in your professional life.
Strengthen personality
Convince and inspire with your personality - through confident and authentic appearance and rhetoric as well as a reflected knowledge of your identity and your (career) goals. Learn to lead yourself with efficient organisation and thoughtful stress management and strengthen your entrepreneurial and critical thinking.
Promoting interaction
Working in project teams instead of as lone warriors - that is the perspective that describes our working world. Teams are always changing, responsibilities have to be adapted. Learn to act in a solution-oriented manner in conflict situations and to apply discussion techniques as a basis for profitable team communication. Acquire skills to manage projects, expand your own network in a future-oriented way and apply manners for professional cooperation with the aim of working together effectively and purposefully in a team.
Use diversity
Cooperation across national borders, heterogeneously composed teams and answering complex questions in society - these are things that occupy us today. Dare to look inwards and find out which presuppositions move your actions and learn how to develop an open and appreciative attitude towards other people. The aim is to enable you to move confidently on the international stage, for example, and to act in a reflective and sensitive manner with regard to the issues of gender and dealing with generations.
Managing knowledge
Today's world of communication offers an extensive flood of information on current circumstances. Learn how to keep track of the topicality and importance of the information and make an assessment of its significance. You will also learn how to prepare this knowledge in a way that is appropriate for the target group, in order to process and present the complex content for knowledge transfer.
Shaping the future
What will the future bring? Don't leave it to chance - take an active part in it. Learn strategies in our workshops on how to use your own know-how and creativity for this and how to successfully develop and realise your own innovations. Stay flexible in dealing with change through concepts such as change management and keep digitalisation in focus.
About the ZSK
The Center of Key Competencies is a professional contact for the further development of key competencies. It aims to expand the interdisciplinary competencies of students at the TUM School of Engineering and Design. Our offerings include team and project work, creativity and intercultural competence, gender and diversity, and good scientific practice. Our areas of competence:
SELF-COMPETENCE
Take control of your personal development! You will discover your individuality and its impact on your future development. You will develop a mature ability to reflect and make informed decisions.
SOCIAL SKILLS
Get to know your fellow human beings! Learn how to act empathetically in interpersonal interactions and react appropriately to the situation.
METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS
Organize your working methods in an efficient way! Acquire this skill by selecting, planning, and implementing appropriate techniques.
Team
We are a team of experienced educators and psychologists from social sciences, educational sciences, personnel and organizational psychology. We are supported by a team of trainees, scientific and student assistants.
Leitung
Franziska Glasl
Dr. Birgit Theisen
Trainer*innen und Koordinator*innen
Marie Aepfelbacher (in Elternzeit)
Larisa Kraft
Brigitte Ostermeier
Luise Poetzsch (in Elternzeit)
Sara Weilandt
Amelie Zauner
Julia Ziegler
Auszubildende
Jennifer Duffner
Kontakt: zsk(at)ed.tum.de
Working Groups
We are constantly developing. We measure our quality and continuously improve our performance. Through innovative projects and personal training, our range is constantly growing. This also includes the exchange with related institutions.
The Working Group Key Competencies Bavaria is an association of different universities and colleges for the promotion of a high-quality event offer for students in the field of "education of personality development in supra-disciplinary competencies and general knowledge". It consists of 31 members representing 15 different universities and colleges in Bavaria. They belong to the centers of key competencies, the study general, the centers for career and competencies as well as the career service facilities of the different institutions.
The aim of the Key Competencies Working Group in Bavaria is to promote exchange among the institutions in order to keep abreast of new developments and to enable professional development through mutual knowledge of what is on offer. The working group meets once a semester in order to deepen new topics of personal development, to discuss topics of interdisciplinary competencies and to exchange best-practice examples.