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Personal Competence
  • revise own work in a self-organized way
  • assess own learning progress (e.g. participation in discussions, completing exercises, presenting solutions)
  • identify own strengths and weaknesses
  • accept different opinions (e.g. during in-class discussions)
Social Competence
  • build awareness of different communication settings and genres
  • adapt to different communication settings and genres
Methodological Competence
(CEFR Niveau B2/C1)
  • understand extended speech
  • appreciate different perspectives
  • use language fluently, spontaneously and flexibly for social and professional purposes
  • present detailed descriptions integrating sub-themes
  • write clearly structured texts on a wide range of subjects highlighting key ideas
  • relate own statements to those of other speakers
Professional Competence
  • name some key characteristics of academic writing in English
  • apply key characteristics of academic writing in English to a series of texts
  • expand Business English skills
  • apply suitable (oral) communication techniques to specific communicative contexts
  • analyse personal and peer performance according to feedback criteria
  • develop and review strategies for language learning
  • review personal performance
Personal Competence
  • commitment and persistence
  • Focus on decision making in situations with an abundance of information
  • justify and explain the own project results
Social Competence
  • jointly work on a project
  • understand and accept different points of view on the same topic
  • evaluate fellow students performance and the own performance
  • are able to support and argument for the own attitude or position during discussions
Methodological Competence
  • know relevant scientific publications
  • understand scientific publications and are able to locate them within the body of literature
  • implement the learning content in a comprehensive innovation project
  • are able to identify core publications
  • work with and solve case studies
  • implement the learning content in a comprehensive innovation project
  • evaluate the performance of fellow students and rank oneself within all performances
Professional Competence
  • know classical types of innovation
  • know the basics of intellectual property rights
  • understand the innovation process, as well as its funding
  • are able to use models of collaborative innovation in case studies
  • are able to analyze the assumptions of the realization or implementation of ideas
  • synthesize the learning content of the lecture within a project (idea generation up to the development of a prototype)
  • evaluate the performance of fellow students
Personal Competence
  • No focus in this course
Social Competence
  • Listen attentively to the letures and internalise points made by their fellow students.
  • Discuss the solutions of case studies and ask questions in unclear situations
  • Assess the solutions presented, evaluate them in relation to their own solution
  • Use the opportunity to find an independent solution for case studies and support eachother mutually in the correction process
  • stand up for and defend their own solution against criticism
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