The 1st International Soft Skills Academy for staff

Following the success of the 1^st International Soft Skills Academy for students, HIT's International Office, HIT's Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FutureHIT) and the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU), Greece, decided to run the 1^st International Soft Skills Academy for staff. With a content adapted to researchers, academic and administrative staff, the Academy took place between January 18^th and February 4^th 2021.

Amazing session and presentation. Very important and relevant!

Very helpful and enlightening!

Thank you very much! You managed to give us foods for thoughts! I treasure your tips and I will try to apply them in everyday life.

The workshop has totally met my expectations, and the lecturer's approach made the whole lecture interesting and easy to follow.

Great lecture. I enjoyed it a lot. Easy tips to take along. Thanks!

Very interesting and well delivered! Thank you!

Do consider organizing something similar again in the future!

Very engaging speaker, nice experience, interesting topic and...very funny!

It offered a range of lectures such as "how to develop international research collaboration", "understanding intellectual property: strategy and management", "emotional intelligence in business context" and more.

The 1^st International Soft Skills Academy for staff recorded close to 1,100 registrations; totaling 400 participants, from 18 countries and 77 institutions.

HIT and HMU will keep on running this program throughout this academic year and beyond. It will seek to provide thousands of students and staff from all over the world with the missing soft skills so dearly needed in today's world.

This initiative comes in the frame of the internationalization of HIT and of its internationalization at home process.

Amount of participants per country – as per the registration database:

Institutions represented (in alphabetical order):

1. Al-Qasemi Academic College
2. Ansbach University of Applied sciences
3. AP University
4. Azrieli College of Engineering
5. Baccara Geva
6. Beit Berl
7. Bezalel
8. BGU
9. British Council
10. Clalit
11. Clare Boland Coaching
12. Council for Higher Education
13. David Yellin College of Education
14. Donbass State Engineering Academy
15. ECAM-EPMI
16. EFREI Paris
17. ENAC Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
18. EPF Paris
19. Erasmus+ Israel National Agency
20. ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles
21. FH Joanneum
22. Gordon Academic College of Education
23. Hadassah Academic College
24. Haifa university
25. Herzog
26. Higher School of Tourism Education of Crete
27. HIT
28. HMU
29. HTW Dresden
30. HUJI
31. ICAM Toulouse
32. IED Barcelona
33. IMT Mines Albi
34. Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
35. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
36. Kauno Kolegija
37. Kazan Federal University
38. Khulna University
39. Kinneret Academic College
40. Levinsky College of Education
41. Marie Curie Alumni Association
42. National Technical University KhPI
43. Northern University of Yerevan
44. Odessa National Polytechnic University
45. Oranim
46. Ort Braude
47. PFA
48. Politécnico do Porto
49. Polytechnic University of Timisoara
50. Ro's English School
51. Ruppin Academic Center
52. Sapienza University of Rome
53. Sapir
54. SCE
55. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
56. Shenkar
57. Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics
58. Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
59. TAU
60. Tel Hai
61. TH Köln
62. The Academic College of Emeek Yezreel
63. Thomas More
64. Université Paris est Créteil
65. University of Applied Sciences Graz
66. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
67. University of Crete
68. University of Haifa
69. University of Innsbruck
70. University of Latvia
71. University of Orléans
72. University of Padua
73. University of the Peloponnese
74. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
75. Western Galilee College
76. WIS
77. Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University

Posted: 14/02/2021