Key Competence Week 2026
From March 16 to 20, 2026, the fifth Key Competencies Week will take place at TU Dresden in the Fritz Foerster Building.
Your chance: Strengthen key competencies
Take the opportunity to develop your interdisciplinary skills. You can expect practical workshops on topics such as learning and working techniques, time management, presentation and communication or stress management and resilience. In addition, you can clarify your personal questions in individual consultations and gain inspiration for your academic success.
Planning 2026
Preparations are already underway. Sign up for our list of interested parties - this way you will be informed in good time as soon as the program is online and registration opens.
Looking back: Program 2025
The Key Skills Week 2025 offered a wide range of workshops, lectures and consultations:
- Learning and exam coaching
- Rhetoric and conversation skills for studies and work
- "I can do this!" - With self-confidence through your studies
- ChatGPT and co. as writing and study assistants
- Stress and stress regulation
- (Academic) presentations for students
- Fit for change: Strengthening change competence for studies and career
- Diversity skills - a success factor for studying and working
- Hands-on digital data security
- Conflict management (2 days)
- Speech and voice training for students
- Working more efficiently in MS Excel (2 days)
- as well as many counseling services (e.g. student financing, writing center, psychosocial counseling).
Contact us
If you have any questions about the Key Skills Week, please contact Dr. Kathy Küchenmeister.

Deputy Head of Career Service
NameMs Dr. Kathy Küchenmeister
Counselling | Workshops | Evaluation
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Visiting address:
Fritz-Foerster-Bau, Raum 343A Mommsenstraße 6
01069 Dresden