Cover letter
The explanatory statement is your cover letter and therefore your "most personal" contact with the recognition matters specialist of a subject who will decide on your application. Take the opportunity to introduce yourself to them.

Application knowledge
You can describe your own skills development in the explanatory statement.

No details
Do not refer to the content and learning outcomes of the study modules verbatim at this point (this step takes place in the recognition synopsis).

Form
Pay attention to the form: Use complete sentences and no bullet points.

Skills
The aim of your CV is to show the skills you have acquired based on your career stages with as few gaps as possible.

Higher education entrance qualification
Which higher education entrance qualification do you have: a general or subject-specific one? Via Abitur or via a recognized professional qualification (Z examination, 3+3 regulation)?
Information about your primary school attendance does not have to be included in your CV.

Range
Do you have a professional hobby or do you do voluntary work? You can list skills from all areas of life in your CV.

Contact
Please include your university e-mail address and telephone number in your CV.

Private
We only need your name. You do not need to provide information on gender, children or religion.

Content before length
Your CV should be as concise as possible and as long as necessary. In order to be able to list all relevant training, further education and professional activities, the CV may be longer than 1-2 pages.

work samples

• own publications (scientific articles, monographs)
• work reports
• Expert opinions (prepared by you)
• Written or pictorial representations of your procedures:
  Notes, work plans, visualizations and presentations (graphics, illustrations, videos of drafts and results)

Retrospective written or graphical illustrations of your work procedures

Documentation of your skills in the form of newspaper articles or similar.

Curricula are excerpts from the educational programmes you have completed: overviews of learning content, learning objectives, learning processes

Formal certificates

1. from education, training and further education
2. for professional or voluntary activities

Confirmations from your employers

By submitting the recognition portfolio, you confirm that:

• all documents and evidence submitted relate to your own biography.
• all representations in the recognition synopses were created by you personally.

The recognition portfolio is not identical to the "portfolio" examination form.

• You can only submit an application for recognition transfer if you have not yet registered for the relevant module examination (or if it is no longer possible to deregister). It is also not possible to submit a recognition application if you have already attempted an examination.
• As long as your recognition application has not yet been decided, you should continue to attend the module courses for which you have applied for recognition and, if necessary, register for module examinations in order not to miss the registration deadline.

Please note that the decision on your recognition application may take several weeks. You can view the exact procedure for the PLAR recognition process here.

Submitting the recognition portfolio

Please upload your completed portfolio in the stud.IP course PLAR portfolio consultation under "Files". Here you will also find an information sheet with instructions for submission, which describes exactly how you should organize and label the individual documents of your portfolio in PDF documents.

The portfolio is submitted within a protected submission folder so that only the PLAR service staff can download and view your documents. Your portfolio will remain invisible to other participants in the course.

If you prefer to send us your recognition portfolio by post, please use the following address:

CvO University of Oldenburg
PLAR-Service V03
Ammerländer Heerstr. 136
26129 Oldenburg

Note: If you would like to hand-deliver your portfolio to our post office box, you will find it in building V03 on the first floor in room S016. Please drop your portfolio into the PLAR-Service inbox here.