Training Courses and Curricular Units

Training Courses offered by GAPsi

Throughout the years GAPsi has offered training courses/workshops/lectures on themes of soft skills. The relevance of these courses is in line with the recognition of the dimensions of “knowing how to be” which is seen as a crucial complement to an adequate academic, professional and personal development.

 

Topics of lectures and workshops:

  • Anxiety management
  • Emotional management
  • Time management
  • Stress management
  • Communication skills
  • Public speaking
  • Relationships
  • Study methods
  • Transition to the labor market
  • Looking for the first job

 

Dates scheduled - academic year 2024/2025

  • Making accessible documents (2 editions), Catarina Carvalho / Madalena Pintão, Psychological Support Office, October 2024
  • Top Tips for Evaluations, Cláudio Pina Fernandes, Rectory of ULisboa, 27 October 2024
  • How to feel anger, Victória Gutiérrez, Psychological Support Office, 11 November 2024
  • VicenTuna course, Íris Cartaxo / Madalena Pintão / Victória Gutiérrez, Psychological Support Office, 19 November 2024  
  • Controlling time is not just fiction, Íris Cartaxo, 28 November 2024
  • Vocational Guidance: having a board vision, Catarina Carvalho, Psychological Support Office, 04 December 2024      
  • I already have too much anxiety!, Madalena Pintão, Psychological Support Office, 05 December 2024
  • Emotions: Is it to leave me alone or stay close to me?, Madalena Pintão, Psychological Support Office, 11 December 2024
  • Learning to Learn Programme, Érika Mello, Psychological Support Office, 25 March- 15 April 2025
  • “Chá do Dia”, podcast on topics that aim to promote self-knowledge, personal development and psycho-education, Psychological Support Office, beginning of weekly broadcast on 19 September 2022

 

Curricular Units

  • Course of Social Competences and Personal Development - This course has 3 ECTS and the main goal is to promote personal development at academic and social level.
     
  • Transversal Competences for Employability - This course has 3 ECTS. The purpose of this course is to promote the development of relevant soft skills to employability. The lessons are given by invited lecturers and the students have the oportunity to be in touch with high qualified professionals, most of them linked to SHARE-Association for Sharing Knowledge.