Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges
Pathways to Better Health
Shaping Working Conditions and Promoting Healthy Behaviour!
Registration
Registration takes place via RWTHonline and is possible from 01.09.2026 to 04.10.2026. Further information on the registration process can be found in the FAQs.
All students can register for one course. You can specify two preferences. To do so, please use the ‘high’ priority and the one directly below it. For instructions, please click here. If you have not been allocated a place at the end of the allocation process and are still interested in participating in a course, please contact sibel.yildirim@ipw.rwth-aachen.de.
(If you have any problems with registration, please contact Ms Sibel Yildirim (IPW) at sibel.yildirim@ipw.rwth-aachen.de, stating your matriculation number. If you have any general questions about the course, please contact the person listed below.)
We welcome your questions and comments. You can contact us here! (The ‘Leonardo’ project is also on Facebook and Instagram).
Academic Responsibility
Chair of Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine Occupational Health Psychology Teaching and Research Area, UKA Aachen
Institute for Occupational Social and Environmental Medicine, RWTH Aachen
Staff Development and Talent Management, RWTH Aachen
Contact Person
Fynn Grünwald
Schedule
Start
28.10.2026
Time
Tuesday, 16:30 – 18:00 h
Place
SE 108 (1580|108)
Templergraben 90/I, 52062 Aachen
Description
This interdisciplinary course teaches basic concepts and practical approaches to health promotion in studies and everyday working life. Participants learn about central approaches to behavioural and situational prevention and deal with strategies for maintaining physical and mental health. To this end, study-specific stressors are identified, working conditions at universities are analysed and health protection measures derived. The course explores the dynamic interplay between structural factors and individual responsibilities, and how they affect health. The course is open to students of all disciplines.
Learning Outcomes
Participants
- …can explain basic concepts of health promotion as well as key approaches to behavioural and environmental prevention.
- …are familiar with arguments supporting the importance of health-literate behaviour in their studies and professional life.
- …are able to identify stressors and explain their impact on physical and mental health.
- …reflect on their own health behaviour, stress, and time management, and develop ways to improve their health.
- …develop an understanding of health-related conditions at universities, especially at RWTH, and can derive suitable, needs-based health promotion measures.
- …critically engage with the structural conditions that affect their health and develop strategies to actively help shape these conditions.
Program
28.10.2026
Introduction and definition of central terms: health, stress and strain
04.11.2026
Understanding psychophysiological basics and recognising aspects of movement
11.11.2026
Developing stress competence: understanding rumination and strengthening resources
18.11.2026
Workshop: Analysis of study-related stress and individual strain
25.11.2026
Health promotion at RWTH: insights into the structures and measures of university health management
02.12.2026
Workshop: developing health-promoting measures at the situational and behavioural prevention level
09.12.2026 to 06.10.2027
Preparation weeks (no seminar)
06.01.2027
Poster submission (no seminar)
13.01.2027
1st poster presentation
20.01.2027
2nd poster presentation
Procedure/Working method
Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation. If you would like to take an exam, please make sure beforehand how you can get credit for it in your degree program. Of course, you can also take exams without receiving curricular credit for them. Visit our FAQs for more information.
Certificate
Poster (2 CP, ungraded)
Poster & 15–20-page report (4 CP, graded)
