"Next Level You!" is a weekly 90-minute empowerment format for students and staff at KIT that strengthens mental health, self-leadership, and personal development.
It offers impulses for personal growth during the lecture period, taking place on Wednesdays or Thursdays, with topics such as resilience, self-confidence, presence, body language, breathing, voice, setting boundaries, communication, clarity, and rhetoric.
The focus is on intergenerational and cross-hierarchical learning – fostering dialogue at eye level, creating mutual understanding, and opening up new perspectives for everyone involved.
Students can earn 1 ECTS credit by attending five workshops and submitting a reflection report.

Contact: kristin.wunder∂kit.edu

The House of Competence (HoC) is the central academic institution for key competencies at KIT.
It offers, among other things, courses related to health. These courses can be credited as part of the “Certificate in Health Literacy” program.

Contact: info-sq∂hoc.kit.edu

The project "Taking the Lead. Mindfully Shaping Change" by the House of Competence aims to develop innovative offerings to promote leadership and health competencies for students. The goal is to establish a new understanding of health-promoting leadership, one that incorporates the significant changes in the economy, politics, and the environment, takes the needs of individuals seriously, and creates alternative success measures for a healthy collaboration. Overall, the project focuses on actively shaping the transition from university to professional life and promoting students' sense of self-efficacy.

Contact: perspektivenlabor∂hoc.kit.edu

The transition from school to university involves a high degree of reorientation.
This can present obstacles and challenges that may lead to a decline in motivation. The Learning Lab of the House of Competence aims to support you through the project “Time2grow” in addressing the individual challenges of university life with a positive attitude, using them as opportunities for your personal development.

Contact: lernlabor∂hoc.kit.edu

FORUM – Studium Generale. Forum for Science and Society offers more than 100 courses each semester, enabling students to integrate social and cultural topics into their academic studies. In addition, individual skills such as creativity, communication, and practical competencies can be strengthened through key qualification programs offered at FORUM.

Contact: stg∂forum.kit.edu

Your ZDeK Certificate proves that you are interested in Germany, not only as far as studies, life, and work are concerned, but also in terms of culture and getting along with the Germans.
Knowledge about Germans and Germany is important to German companies doing both national and international business. It helps better represent your employer’s position. Moreover, it facilitates and deepens exchange with colleagues and other Germans.
At an international company, your employer will appreciate your knowledge of Germany, as it will facilitate contacts to German companies.

Contact: uta.brueckner-nieder∂kit.edu