Mehke veščine v visokošolskem izobraževanju

Although in its strategic documents the European Commission emphasizes the importance of soft skills for achieving the key goals of the Bologna process, it seems that soft skills have not found their way into higher education study programs yet. The reason for this is partly in a very traditionalistic stand of the European higher education environment, which gives priority to scientific groundings over practical applicability. This study addresses the question of key soft skills, which should be included in higher education study programs either as independent modules or integrated in the existing modules or else offered as extra curricular activities to students. Based on the empirical research, conducted by human resource experts in six countries, soft skills can be clustered into three groups: personal, social and methodological/contextual. In the concluding part of the paper the expected learning outcomes are defined in order to stimulate inclusion of soft skills into higher education study programs