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Future Skills@HSRM
Hochschule RheinMain stands for very good, up-to-date academic teaching with a high level of practical relevance. The teaching of interdisciplinary skills, so-called 21st century skills or future skills, plays a major role in preparing students for the world of work and life. Many lecturers at Hochschule RheinMain have developed innovative, practice-oriented formats with which future skills can be taught in the subject-specific teaching. In addition, the Future Skills Framework has been developed at HSRM, in which the various fields of competence are identified and explained.
Future Skills Framework
An increasingly fast-changing environment places new demands on the employability of future graduates. Personal development and the acquisition of further skills, beyond pure expertise, are becoming increasingly important. Against this background, the higher education institution must address the question of which of these skills must also be promoted during studies in order to ensure the future prospects and employability of graduates.
Hochschule RheinMain has set itself the goal of preparing students for the social and economic transformation driven by artificial intelligence, digitalization and technology, among other things. In addition, it has been working intensively on the topic of future skills since its peer-to-peer strategy consultation on digitalization in Studies and Teaching (2020/21). The dynamic developments in the field of generative AI reinforce the need to integrate future skills into the fields of activity at higher education institutions.
The following Future Skills were developed by a working group led by the Vice-President for Studies, Teaching and International Affairs and with representatives from the Studies and Teaching division and the TeachingLearningCenter (LLZ) and coordinated with a sounding board of lecturers from the university.
The competence concept of these newly defined future skills is based on the preliminary work of the higher education institution, which is based on the definition of the Stifterverband (Stifterverband and McKinsey 2021). The competencies defined here as future skills were compared with the existing HSRM competency model and an attempt was made to make a rough assignment to the grid of methodological, social, personal and professional competencies already in use and to determine where new competencies actually need to be considered.
