Resumen:
The Bologna process has driven a student-centered learning which has affected the whole learning/teaching process, with teachers and students both participating a process of cooperative learning in order to develop useful competences. In this context, graduates are due to dispose of a bunch of generic and subject-specific competences. Transversal or generic competences are transdisciplinary, which means that they are useful beyond the disciplines; in addition, key competences have also been distinguished and defined by the EU as the extent to which each individual has developed the competences that all individuals need for personal fulfillment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment. These generic skills (methodological, social and intercultural competences, ethical values) are essential for finding, retaining or developing the individual position in society.
Before the Bologna process, higher education institutions had extensive experience in providing subject-specific competences, but they were less experienced in soft skills development. In the last years, study programs have been designed in order to leave room for all the components that contribute to educatio...