The EUGLOH Alliance Competences Framework consists of 10 key competences that serve the purpose of cataloguing EUGLOH’s training offer in terms of activities oriented to the development of transversal skills, relevant across all study levels and subject areas. The 10 competences are divided into two groups, according to the idea that each hemisphere of our brain manages different functions – the “Left Brain vs. Right Brain” metaphor.
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Creativity & Problem solving
Learn how to develop new ideas and opportunities to solve both new and old challenges. Untap your creative potential through innovative approaches, combining knowledge and resources to turn the lightbulbs in your head fully on!
Communication & Collaboration
Strengthen your ability to work together and cooperate with others to achieve common goals. Learn how to establish relevant networks and use different communication platforms.
Leadership & Social Impact
Acquire the ability to inspire and engage everyone around you. Get the support you need, through effective communication, persuasion, negotiation, and leadership. Seek opportunities for self-empowerment and for participatory citizenship.
Emotional Awareness & Resilience
Expand your ability to manage your own emotions, as well as to recognize and appropriately respond to the emotions of others. Learn how to overcome uncertainty, difficulties and failure.
Intercultural Skills
Explore how to benefit from the added value of diversity. Be able to create an inclusive environment in order to work and communicate effectively across cultures.
Digital Skills
Learn how to solve problems in digital environments by the use of computational thinking skills. Retrieve relevant information, create and edit digital content, while protecting your data and privacy.
Critical Thinking
Develop your ability to engage in reflective reasoning and independent thinking. Analyze available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to form a judgment.
Financial & Legal Literacy
Work on your capacity to apprehend and make use of a variety of financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Know how to navigate through complex legal systems of the various European legislations.
Ethics and Responsibility
Mature your capacity to reflect critically about moral values and direct your actions accordingly. Commit to behave responsibly and contribute to society's development and well-being.
Knowledge into action
Learn the best ways to create added value both to yourself and your community. Develop your ability to turn ideas into action and work independently to achieve your goals.
Left Side The left side of the framework is associated with logical, analytical or objective skills and functions. Thus, in this group, we find the following competences: Digital Skills; Critical Thinking; Financial & Legal Literacy; Ethics & Responsibility and Knowledge into Action.
Right Side The right side of the framework is associated with intuition, imagination, creativity and emotional intelligence. Hence, the competences included in this group are the following: Creativity & Problem Solving; Communication & Collaboration; Leadership & Social Impact; Emotional Awareness & Resilience and Intercultural Skills.
Core Competences: 3 core competences were added to the framework: Working in Multicultural Contexts; Learning to Learn and Working in Multidisciplinary Teams. These competences embody some of the fundamental values of the European Universities Initiative and the EUGLOH Alliance’s mission and goals and can, consequently, be developed through the participation in any of the activities.