General competences to be acquired:

• Ability to identify current problems in a professional field for social benefit.
• Ability to interdisciplinarily integrate and understand knowledge from different scientific disciplines related to prevention in health.
• Develop scientific thinking in specific areas of health prevention.
• Acquisition of communication skills, in particular communication within the health team and with other stakeholders.
• Ability to critically examine information and anticipate solutions and consequences.
• Ability to conduct a pilot research experiment.
• Commitment to moral and ethical principles in healthcare, including respect for multiculturalism.

Subject-specific competences to be acquired:

• Ability to deal interdisciplinarily with the most important problems of contemporary society in the field of preventive health.
• Ability to understand the links between food, nutrition, physical activity, whole body homeostasis, cognition, behavior and mental state.
• Ability to critically assess the public health situation from a nutrition and dietetics perspective.
• Ability to analyse, synthesise, anticipate and plan solutions and implications in the field of complementary/alternative therapies.
• Knowledge required to carry out measurements and interventions in specific aspects of health prevention.
• Ability to interpret results.
• Ability to understand scientifically sound strategies for maintaining and protecting health.
• Ability to make appropriate use of communication resources and information and communication technology.