This handout presents the key results of the project Sustainability and Transfer Options of Student Health Skills in Professional Settings - GeKoNnTeS, which was carried out as a cooperation project between the Department of Childhood and Youth Research in Sport and University Sports at Paderborn University, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Techniker Krankenkasse from 2020 to 2024. Under the special perspective of transfer, understood as a dialogue process between science, universities and stakeholders from students' future professional fields of action, the focus was on the (further) development and evaluation of practice-oriented approaches to promoting student health skills. At Paderborn University, the focus was specifically on the further development of two established certificate programmes: the Health Passport for Students and the Good Healthy School profile study programme. In addition, a university didactic training programme to promote movement-related health skills among teachers and students was developed and formatively evaluated. A practice-oriented certificate programme to promote work-related health skills was also developed at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and tested in close cooperation with stakeholders from educational and professional practice.

This handbook supports the transfer of knowledge between universities and offers a detailed presentation of the measures developed in the first part, which can serve as examples of best practice for other institutions. At the end of the individual contributions there are key questions and checklists which are intended to provide orientation in this context.

The second part contains the documentation of the transfer event "Developing health skills in universities - strengthening students for their professional future", which was held at the end of the project in the Excellence Start-up Centre Ostwestfalen-Lippe at Paderborn University. This one-day event was also dedicated to the knowledge transfer of the certificate programmes and further education and training measures developed to promote student health skills. The conference documentation complements the first part of the handout by integrating the perspectives of various university and practice stakeholders on the transfer of health competences. In addition, the results of the workshops held during the event are presented, offering valuable insights and suggestions for the further development of students' health competences in a higher education context.

Overall, the handout is aimed in particular at universities that would like to (further) develop their concepts for strengthening student health competences, as well as at stakeholders from professional practice who are interested in the topic.

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