STUDY SMART: Successful, Motivated, Ambitious, Resilient and Targeted

The European Union offers a variety of funding programs to support research and education as a valuable public good. Our project is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

The network: STUDY SMART

TheSTUDYSMART network project aims to promote academic success at TU Dresden and facilitate entry into the job market. It is particularly aimed at female and international students as well as student teachers. The network partner SMART WRITING is affiliated with the Writing Center (SZD) at the Center for Continuing Education (ZfW). The SZD designs and tests study-supporting offers in the field of academic reading and writing.

Further information on the project can be found the STUDY-SMART project website.

Project duration

Period: 01.04.2024 until 31.03.2026

Work packages and offers

All offers of the network project including SMART WRITING can be found on the STUDY-SMART project website. You can register for the courses via OPAL.

SMART WRITING is involved in the "Female Empowerment" and "Skills4Internationals" work packages as part of the project:

Female Empowerment - Strengthening key skills for academic success

The aim is to provide female students in a protected environment with the key skills they need to successfully shape their academic careers and at the same time be well equipped for their personal and professional future. The courses are specifically tailored to the individual needs and challenges of women studying and are designed to strengthen the participants' self-confidence and sense of self-efficacy. Areas of competence addressed include

• Communication and presentation skills
• Time and self-management
• conflict management
• Leadership and management skills
• Academic writing and working

Skills4Internationals - key skills for international students

The aim is to provide international students with key skills that facilitate their social integration into the university and their studies and help them to achieve their academic goals and have a successful study experience in a foreign education system. In addition, key competencies also support successful entry into the Saxon labor market. Areas of competence addressed include:

• Communication skills
• Teamwork and cooperation skills (especially intercultural cooperation)
• Learning and working techniques (e.g. critical thinking, presentation techniques)
• Academic writing and working in a German subject context
• Time and self-management, stress management
• Self-confidence and empowerment

All courses are available in English.

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Consultant for Writing Didactics

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Paulina Hösl

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Fritz-Foerster-Bau, Floor 5, Room 556 Mommsenstr. 6

01069 Dresden

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The TU Dresden Writing Center (SZD) supports students and lecturers with offers for planning and writing various texts during their studies, such as documents, protocols, seminar papers and theses, and for teaching academic writing in teaching and supervision. All information on offers and possibilities for support can be found in the areas for students and lecturers.