“Unlock the Power of LinkedIn” – Personal Branding, Job Search, and Content Creation

This practical workshop covers the following topics:

• Profile optimization for a professional online presence
• Building and expanding your professional network
• Effective job search and application techniques on LinkedIn
• Enhancing visibility through content creation

Speaker: Lina Kassem
Minimum number of participants: 12
Language: English
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025, 3:00–6:00 p.m., Room A 417

This event has already taken place!

Certificate course: Insight into volunteer interpreting in the field of community interpreting

This interactive workshop focuses on the following topics:

•  Insight into (volunteer lay) interpreting
• Requirements for lay interpreters and delimitation of tasks
• Insight into various interpreting situations (authorities, refugees, medicine, education)
• Application of basic interpreting strategies throughout the interpreting process
• Observance of basic rules of behaviour

In addition to German as a foreign language, you should speak at least one other language at a minimum level of B2. Knowledge of the following languages is an advantage for practical application: Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Ukrainian, English, French.

After successful participation you will receive a certificate of attendance.

Speakers: Paola Baglione (Image: left), Prof. Dr. Ursula Gross-Dinter (Image: right)
Minimum number of participants: 18
Language: German (minimum level B2)
Date: Friday, 24 October 2025, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Room A 405

This event has already taken place!

Stress Management and Burnout Prevention – Protecting Your Mental Health in Studies and Work Life

Do you want to learn how to handle university stress more effectively? Do you want to take care of your mental health and prevent overload or burnout? Is achieving a healthy work-life balance important to you? Then don’t miss this workshop with psychologist Julia Barden!

Workshop topics include:

• Understanding how stress develops (and when it becomes harmful)
• Causes and warning signs of burnout
• Healthy strategies for coping with stress
• Tools for preventing overload
• Effective relaxation techniques

In addition to theoretical input, you will directly apply what you learn to your own student life. You will identify your main sources of stress – both external, such as the double burden of studies and work, and internal, such as perfectionism – and then reflect on how you can use the strategies presented to manage these stressors more effectively. You will also explore which activities help you to recharge and how you can integrate them more actively into your daily routine.

Speaker: Julia Barden
Minimum number of participants: 12
Language: English
Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2026, 4:00–7:00 p.m., online

Please note: The link to the webinar will be sent to participants after registration.

This event has already taken place!

Finding the right bibliography efficiently

In this workshop, led by Dr Laura Acosta-Ortega (Northeastern University London and International University SDI München), students and alumni will learn where and how to efficiently find a bibliography for their essay. This workshop is being held in cooperation with the library and ZiLL.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Introduction to systematic bibliography research
• Techniques for an efficient start to research
• Analysing various web services: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Research Rabbit
• Advantages and disadvantages of the individual platforms mentioned above
• Access to open-access publications

Goal: Practical strategies for quickly and effectively creating a bibliography for essays.

Speaker: Dr Laura Acosta-Ortega
Minimum number of participants: 12
Language: English
Date: Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm, online

Please note: The link to the webinar will be sent to participants after registration.

This event has already taken place!

Career Discovery, Job Hunting, and Planning Your Future

This workshop is about developing a targeted career strategy. You will receive important tips on self-reflection, focusing on your professional and personal strengths on one hand and your individual goals and career aspirations on the other. This enables you to determine your career direction more precisely and find out which jobs and career paths suit you, your profile and your potential and how you can find them.

• Career planning - why and how?
• Planning your own career in three steps
• Successful self-marketing, “personal branding”
  • Your own market value
  • What does self-marketing mean?

Step 1: Self-reflection

• Reflect on your own interests, life situations, values and wishes
• Profile building: Analyze professional skills and combine them into a coherent overall picture
• Gaining orientation on the job market: sources of information, job offers, LinkedIn & Xing networks

Step 2: Define specific career alternatives

• Define a coherent, individual career strategy
• Resource and effort planning, GAP analysis
• Finding suitable employers and jobs
• Networking and effective job search

Step 3: Implementing the application strategy

• Optimization of application documents & social media profiles
• Preparation for job interviews

Speaker: Jörg Wunderer
Minimum number of participants: 12
Language: English
Date: The next event will be announced shortly!

The Hidden Powers of Non-verbal Communication

An interactive and insightful session on the hidden power of non-verbal communication. Discover how body language, facial expressions, and subtle cues shape our interactions — often more than words ever could. 

Drawing on psychology, communication studies, and culture studies, this talk explores how to …

• … interpret others’ signals.
• … manage your own presence.
• … and communicate with greater authenticity and influence.

Expect practical tips, fascinating science, and a few surprises about what your body might already be saying.

Speaker: Dr. Dominik Hamm
Minimum number of participants: 12
Language: English
Date: Friday, 15 May 2026, time and room to be determined.