UE Student Success Centre
The UE Student Success Centre provides services for students to develop critical academic skills and to learn strategies for academic success.
Our mission is to provide high-quality support and resources to help students excel in their studies, explore personal growth, and navigate challenges with confidence and clarity.
What we offer
Student Resources
1:1 Consultations
UE Writing Lab
Explore our workshops
Enhance Your Academic Skills
Elevate your academic journey with the Student Success Centre's (SSC) Jumpstart workshops! These interactive sessions aim to equip you with valuable tools and strategies to elevate your academic experience. Ask questions, share concerns, and connect with peers while mastering time management, note-taking, critical thinking, writing, exam prep, and more. Practice your skills with assignments and earn badges recognizing your commitment to academic success.
Integrity Matters: Research Strategies
Truth, trust, and transparency: Master the skills that make your research matter.
- Information literacy
- Critical thinking
- Citing sources
- Bibliographies and reference
- Culture of integrity
Writing Strategies for Success
Craft your words, conquer your courses: Your key to unlocking clear, confident writing that will impress both you and your professors.
- Connecting thinking & writing
- The writing process
- Developing argument & thesis statement
- Concise writing
- Quality of writing
- Review & improvement process
Strategies for Learning Success
Get ready to ace your exams, boost your grades, and become a confident learner and master the game of learning: unlock your academic potential.
- Learning models
- Strategies for effective learning
- Time management
- Group & team work
- Receiving & giving effective feedback
- Exam & assessment strategies
- Support network
- Note-taking methods
Invest in Your Well-Being, Earn a Micro-credential!
Embark on a self-directed journey towards a healthier, happier you with the Student Success Centre's (SSC) new Well-Being micro-credential. Each completed assignment unlocks a digital badge, marking your progress and commitment. Flexible, interactive, and community-driven, this program empowers you with valuable skills to thrive – both inside and outside the classroom.
Finding your why: Developing a sense of purpose
Discover your "why" with this guide to unlocking your purpose and propelling yourself towards a fulfilling future and uncover your academic purpose
- Identify your sense of purpose, values and core beliefs
- What is goal setting and why is it important?
Leadership development & teamwork
Crave impactful leadership and seamless teamwork? Unlock your potential, whether you're a rising star or a team player aiming higher.
- What is leadership & what makes a leader effective?
- Understanding your leadership style
- Key skills for leadership
- Team skills & tools developing and communicating a vision
- Influencing & motivating others
Health & wellness:
A journey to help you thrive
Embark on our Health & Wellness journey, designed to guide you toward thriving, not just surviving.
Embark on our Health & Wellness journey, designed to guide you toward thriving, not just surviving.
- Tips & Tricks for a healthy life
- Physical resilience
- Importance of nutrition, movement and rest
- Finding a healthy work environment
Strategies to reduce stress: Emotional wellbeing
Explore stress-busting strategies for emotional well-being and unlock a calmer, happier you.
- What is stress?
- How does our body react to stress?
- Managing stress & coping with change
- Healthy vs. unhealthy strategies for coping
with stress
Developing a growth mindset
A journey to develop a growth mindset, where challenges become opportunities and your potential knows no bounds.
- What is a growth mindset versus fixed mindset?
- Benefits of a growth mindset
- How to develop a growth mindset
- Limitations of a growth mindset
Emotional intelligence
Master your emotions, unlock success: Dive into emotional intelligence and conquer your interpersonal world
- What is emotional intelligence?
- Improving self-awareness
- Boosting self-regulation
- Increasing self-motivation
- Developing empathy
- Enhancing social skills
Financial fluency for your educational journey
Your ultimate guide to managing money, making informed choices, and achieving your academic goals without stressing about the bills!
- Financial support at university
- Scholarships, discounts, BAFöG
- Student loan from your home country
- Finding part-time work in Germany
- Study visa
- Banking, tuition, mobile phone plans, medical insurance and travel & semester tickets
- Accommodation
- Anmeldung – mandatory apartment registration
The Human Connection: Healthy interpersonal & professional relationships
Join us on a journey to forge meaningful interpersonal and professional relationships that enrich your life and fuel your success.
- Connection as a fundamental human need
- How evolution and culture shapes loneliness
- Combating loneliness
- Professional relationships
- Social connections
UE Library
Provides assistance with:
- Accessing library resources
- Conducting academic research
- One-on-one student support
Contacts:
Hamburg library.hamburg@ue-germany.de
Berlin/Potsdam library.berlin@ue-germany.de
Iserlohn library.iserlohn@ue-germany.de
UE Writing Lab
Provides assistance with:
- Developing an idea
- Reviewing work in progress
- Suggestions for writing development
- Grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, logic, and coherence
- Basic editing and revising techniques
- Preventing plagiarism
- Overcoming writer´s block
- Writing papers, theses, written presentations, portfolio reviews, artist statements, academic writing, creative writing
- Workshops
Contact for Individual appointment consultations
Instagram: @ue_writing_lab_berlin
You can visit the writing lab website here.
Related Pages & Links
- Visit the UE Library
- Learn more about our psychological counselling.
- Get involved in the student life.
- If you are new to Germany or looking to go abroad check out the International affairs office.
- Academic Study: Is It Just About Studying, or Is There More to It? Check out this page to learn more.
- Other Important Information for UE Student Departments can be found on this page.
- Check out the UE blog.
- Funding your studies: learn about our scholarships.
- The FAQ can be found here
Contact us
If you need more information about Student Success Centre Services: success.centre@ue-germany.de
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