Unite! Courses

The partner universities of the Unite! Alliance partner universities are offering selected courses for students in the areas of languages, communication and global competence. These courses are open to all students enrolled at one of the Unite! partner institutions and can be taken online from your home university. You can take the offer in preparation for a stay abroad, curricularly or voluntarily. The credit points earned will be acknowledged by your university.

You can find the current course offer in the course list on Metacampus.

Courses at TU Darmstadt:

TUCaN Modul 41-11-1291-ku
Course description The focus of this course is verbal argumentation and discussion in German as a Foreign Language, including engaging in dialogue and conversation. Students will learn how to present themselves and their arguments verbally. Students will employ oral communication skills in exercises which lead specifically to effective presentation of arguments, including adding further arguments and effective listening. Students will engage in role plays, presentations and debate-discussion panels in pairs and groups to practice and improve their skills in various types of oral communication.
Time every Monday from 09:50 to 11:30 (UTC+2) / April – July 2025
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1- level completed / Placement test or certificate from UNIcert II level or UNIcert I certificate
TUCaN Modul 41-11-1292-ku
Course description The focus of this course is verbal argumentation and discussion in German as a Foreign Language, including engaging in dialogue and conversation. Students will learn how to present themselves and their arguments verbally. Students will employ oral communication skills in exercises which lead specifically to effective presentation of arguments, including adding further arguments and effective listening. Students will engage in role plays, presentations and debate-discussion panels in pairs and groups to practice and improve their skills in various types of oral communication.
Time every Monday from 11:40-13:20 (UTC+2)/ April – July 2025
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1- level completed / Placement test or certificate from UNIcert II level or UNIcert I certificate
TUCaN Modul 41-00-1621-ku
Course description The virtual intercultural simulation game Bilangon takes place in cooperation with Grenoble INP-UGA and other UNITE! partner universities. A simulation game is an experiential learning method whereby students experience interculturality through play in the context of internationality, multilingualism, virtuality and various fields of expertise. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own, often unconscious ideas of normality and thus deal constructively with foreignness and multilingualism.
For more information on the course concept, click here: https://www.interkulturelle-kompetenz.tu-darmstadt.de/spz_zikk/interkulturelle_workshops_auf_nachfrage/megacities.en.jsp
Time In Bilangon, teams from the four universities meet six times on Thursdays in May and June for 3 hours each.
Max. number of participants A total of 36 students of TU Darmstadt and other UNITE! partner universities may join.
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements English for everyday use at level B2
TUCaN Modul 41-63-1141-ku
Course description
This course is aimed at students who already have a good knowledge of Polish, either because Polish is their native language or because they have acquired it at a good level. The aim of the course is to be able to communicate orally on topics in a university and professional context. Oral expression, spelling and grammar skills are improved by working on different topics and text types.
After an introduction to study-relevant text types in oral communication (e.g. presentations, lectures, job interviews, counselling interviews, etc.), the focus is placed on three subject areas: Education, Science and Technology, Professional Context.
A presentation on a topic of the student's choice will be given as evidence of achievement. The topic of the presentation must be directly related to one of the subject areas covered and to the student's own degree programme.
Time Wednesday from 9:50 to 11:20 (UTC+1)/ April – July 2025
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1 level completed / Placement test or certificate from course VII/VIII or UNIcert I certificate or contact

Students who are not enrolled at TU Darmstadt can apply here (opens in new tab) until 12. March 2025.
TUDa students can register directly via TUCaN from 1. April onwards.

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More information about Unite!

Unite! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering) consists of TU Darmstadt as coordinator, Aalto University (Finland), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), Politecnico Di Torino (Italy), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), the Graz University of Technology (Austria) and the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland).

As a European University, the nine partner universities are hard at work to create a trans-European campus for students and scientists including regions and enterprises. Between them, they have 167,000 students; they already cooperate closely in more than 80 EU projects and have exchanged more than 2,000 students in the past five years. The Alliance’ goal is to bundle joint study opportunities to the benefit of students, to reduce technical and administrative obstacles and by doing so to increase student mobility significantly. Research is also to benefit from these extended and simplified cooperation conditions; thus, strengthening the competitiveness of the European environment of higher education.

Additional information about Unite! and its 9 partner universities.