For a successful career, it is important that students enhance their academic and extracurricular skills through soft skills courses. The courses, taught by experts from each field, will help to improve leadership, management and networking skills – a competitive advantage in the job market within or outside the academic world.

The education in scientific writing, publishing and scientific presentation is of special importance during the doctorate and BIGS Clinical and Population Science would like to support the students by offering such courses on a regular basis.

BIGS Clinical and Population Science students must complete one soft skills course each in the 2nd and 3rd year (in total two soft skills courses). More information on the curriculum are available here.

Available courses offered by BIGS Clinical and Population Science (in close collaboration with other graduate programs)

Find Soft Skills Offers here…

The Bonn Graduate Center supports BIGS schools in the program Promotion PlusBIGS with a large selection of soft skills courses out of these thematic groups:

A list of all courses of the current semester can be found here. Registration has to be done also at this link.

In the next semester, BIGS Clinical and Population Science office will inform the doctoral students about the courses and the exact registration procedure by e-mail at the appropriate time. 

Other sources of soft skills courses

On request, certain courses from other institutes (e.g. BFB) may also be accepted. Please contact the BIGS office with questions about eligible courses.

Language courses

In the program Promotion PlusBIGS we offer German language courses every semester (Level A1, A2, B1). Application takes place once per semester at a certain deadline together with the application for all Promotion PlusBIGS courses. Students will be contacted via email with detailed information on the application procedure.

The University of Bonn offers also more German language courses for international students and doctoral students. Get more information on „Learning German“ at the University of Bonn.

Please note: Attendance in language courses does not count as participation in a soft skills course in order to fulfil this curriculum requirement. Language courses are an additional offer for our international students.