TY - JOUR AU - Ferrando-Rocher, Miguel AU - Marini, Stephan PY - 2021/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Promoting Students' Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity JF - International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) JA - Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn. VL - 16 IS - 24 SE - Short Papers DO - 10.3991/ijet.v16i24.26767 UR - https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/26767 SP - pp. 273-279 AB - An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a process, product, service, organization, or event and its value proposition. The name comes from the idea that it should be possible to deliver the sum-mary within the time span of an elevator ride, so anywhere between 30 sec-onds and 2 minutes, which means the key points need to get across quickly. In this particular educational context, technical students have been encour-aged to defend, under the typical rules of the elevator pitch, the knowledge acquired during the semester in a specific subject. This contribution focuses on the classroom experience and how the transversality of the activity can help students to strive and think in a different way than they are used to in the classroom of a technical career. ER -