On methods to motivate students to self-organized learning and to enable them to acquire “future skills”

The growing discrepancy between the rapidly changing requirements for competencies in engineering and the rigid structures at universities is causing ever-increasing frustration, longer study times, high dropout rates and, last but not least, dwindling enrollment figures. The challenges of overcoming these discrepancies seem insurmountable. In this lecture, we would like to explain measures, methods and concepts that are taking the first essential steps towards solving this problem.