Personal transferable skills and interdisciplinary qualifications are becoming increasingly important for the German and European labour markets. However, these competencies are not yet reflected in university structures. A result is the evident gaps between higher education and professional requirements. Students' practical experience is a matter of personal commitment and has no influence on the university course programme. Cooperation across faculty (and even department) boundaries is still in its infancy.This was the starting point for the development of a project called WISA. WISA is the acronym of Wuppertaler Inderdisziplinaeres Studienangebot, which could roughly be translated as 'Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Studies Programme'. It was planned and directed by the Counselling Service and the German, Economics and Electronic Engineering departments of the University of Wuppertal. The driving forces behind this project are Prof. Eva Neuland (German), Prof. Birgit Vogel-Heuser (Electronic Engineering), Prof. Ulrich Braukmann (Economics) and Dr. Gerhart Rott (Zentrale Studienberatung ZSB - Central Student Counselling and Advisory Service). WISA's goal is to link a student's academic work with perspectives on future employment, and in this way to improve both academic learning and professional competencies. Its principal features include the development of interdisciplinary skills (e.g. communicative abilities in the mother tongue as well as foreign languages, profession-oriented knowledge of technology and economics) as well as personality development to enhance these professional competencies. WISA aims at cross-discipline vocational orientation, the development of interdisciplinary course perspectives through cooperation with various departments and the integration of the guidance and counselling competency and mediation possibilities of the counselling service.The latter's task in the development of inter- an transdisciplinary skills is to provide help and support in the personality development, but it is also concerned with how knowledge is acquired and what resources can be used in the development of transdisciplinary knowledge. Thus, psychological counselling as well as career guidance is relevant here. The development of transdisciplinary knowledge becomes also important in view of the Bologna Process and the building of a European Space of Higher Education. Some of the consequences of this process for the guidance and counselling and teaching perspectives in higher education have already been dealt with at the FEDORA PSYCHE symposium on "Cognition Motivation and Emotion: Dynamics in the Academic Environment" (Lisbon, 2002) and will be further developed at the 8th congress of the European Forum for Student Guidance (FEDORA) in Odense, Denmark, in May 2003, of whose organising committee the proposer is a member. In the paper some links will be drawn to these reflections.In this contribution we would like to present the WISA project in more detail, including what kind of courses were offered, which topics were covered, the evaluation of the project and its implication for the network "Research in Higher Education". In this way it would like to support the construction of a conceptual framework within this network, with a special focus on the emergence of transdisciplinary knowledge within the university context.