Welcome to the Wunderkind® Institute for Career and Educational Consulting. Our institute was founded in 2016. In the Wunderkind Institute we offer competent educational counselling and career guidance.

Wunderkind is a term for people who, even as a child, show abilities in certain areas that are usually not reached until adulthood or not at all. In colloquial language highly gifted children with outstanding skills in special disciplines are often referred to as prodigies.
The expression prevailed in the 19th century, especially in concert. The description of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a "child prodigy" is particularly familiar to this day.
Immanuel Kant called Christian Heinrich Heineken, born in 1721, who had already mastered Latin and French at the age of two, written a Danish story at three, brilliant in mathematics and died at four and a half years, an "intelligent child prodigy of ephemeral existence" and one of the "digressions the nature of their rule ".

As academics, we, at Wunderkind® Institute, conduct research on the subject of career guidance and develop sustainable projects and concepts together with you - representatives from schools, universities and companies - that enable career advancement and successful career planning. Careers can be planned! We advise and accompany you - scientifically, competently and with cultural sensitivity.

We are career and education consultants with experience in science, research, and business. We offer consulting services for universities, schools, companies, students, and pupils.

Dr. phil. Damir Softic is the founder and managing director of Wunderkind. He holds a doctorate in sociology, political science, and communication science. He worked on his doctoral thesis "New Elites? Migrants in Politics" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In this thesis, he analyzes scientific factors that lead to professional success and political advancement in the lives of migrants. The success strategies that he has analysed in this research project can be used profitably for furthering career paths. This scientific competence flows into each of the consulting projects. You too can benefit from the advantages of scientifically based career and education guidance!