European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education - EOSLHE

Learning is a process of transformation and improvement as human beings

Mapping of the Service-Learning Experiences in Higher Education across Europe

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106 Experiences

Service-Learning Experiences Shared

19 Countries

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Service-Learning Experiences in RESPONSE To COVID-19 Shared

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Service-Learning experiences in RESPONSE TO COVID-19 shared in different countries

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Service-learning institutionalisation processes in European higher education

Guidelines for the Institutionalization of service-learning in European HE

These guidelines were built upon substantial evidence in different European higher education institutions gathered by the European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education (EOSLHE).

The guidelines can be used to guide service-learning providers throughout the performance processes of institutionalizing service-learning in European higher education, but also may provide a general overview on how to proceed in situations where there are no specific policies that guide the steps to follow.

1. INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Write institutional mission statements focused on citizenship and social responsibility.
Define clearly short and long-term service-learning institutionalization goals.
Include the pedagogical approach of service-learning in strategic documents at different levels of university organization.
Ensure that service-learning is embedded across departments and throughout different levels of an institution’s pronouncements, policies, and practices.
Facilitate opportunities for the university community to self-organize, promote and develop service-learning in conditions of equity and participation
Set administrative policies to promote positive institutional side-effects at the university, the local community and society.

2. FUNDS ALLOCATION & FINANCIAL STRATEGIES

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Allocate regular, primarily internal, financial strategies to design, implement, manage and evaluate service-learning programs, which could be supplemented and expanded by external funding if needed.
Foster equality by ensuring that low-income individual students can access service-learning projects.
Adopt administrative procedures to foster transparency and fairness in the management of the service-learning budget.
Raise funds from external organizations
Consider the costs of continuing training for all agents involved, the mapping of service-learning and dissemination processes through in-person and online strategies.
Establish a system for measuring the social return on investment.

3. COORDINATION UNIT/SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Establish an office or a coordinating unit across the institution and within schools/faculties/academic centres, with specific staff responsible for service-learning affairs related to the students, teachers and community entities, and for other administrative issues.
Set up an advisory board of multiple stakeholders to ensure collaborative strategic planning, goal-setting and mutual benefit for all stakeholders.
Incorporate the voice of the students and external partners in the design of strategies related to service-learning at its different planning levels.
Encourage and facilitate the assessment and research of student learning outcomes, community partner’s outcomes, and the self-assessment of teachers.
Promote and support training opportunities, pedagogical aids, resources and connections to the community, as well as access to other international entities related to service-learning.
Recognize the management and coordination actions of those involved in the different committees, commissions and processes.

4. REWARDS AND RECOGNITION OF STUDENTS & TEACHERS

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Provide faculty and students with different forms of incentives for participating in service-learning projects.
Recognize students’ service-learning work with credits, and with a certificate or other form of recognition (besides credits).
Incorporate recognition into the faculty evaluation, tenure, and promotion processes.
Facilitate permanent training fostering faculty knowledge and confidence in service-learning activities.
Increase permanent faculty opportunities for joining national and international service-learning groups or outreach projects.
Design incentives for the different stakeholders to participate in service-learning projects.

5. TEACHING PLANNING

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Allocate regular, primarily internal, financial strategies to design, implement, manage and evaluate service-learning programs, which could be supplemented and expanded by external funding if needed.
Foster equality by ensuring that low-income individual students can access service-learning projects.
Adopt administrative procedures to foster transparency and fairness in the management of the service-learning budget.
Develop organization bounding and financial and funding strategies with a wider context.
Consider the costs of continuing training for all agents involved, the mapping of service – learning and dissemination processes through in person and on-line strategies.
Establish mechanisms to support and develop the measurement of the social return on investment.

6. TEACHING PRINCIPLES

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Promote and facilitate service-learning as a central teaching method.
Enable curricula to promote an active role for students in the identification of community needs for their service;
Include emotional and cognitive competencies, co-curricular learnings, and transversal competencies;
Promote interdisciplinary service-learning projects;
Develop online and international service-learning projects;
Impregnate service-learning with the ethical principles and values of social justice and education, including the gender perspective and social inclusion.

7. SERVICE-LEARNING RESEARCH

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Develop and conduct a collaborative or participatory research agenda built on a partnership with the community which should stay focused on all stakeholders.
Provide training on service-learning research and making research resources accessible.
Develop mechanisms for promoting and rewarding engaged research.
Disseminate service-learning projects and research targeting groups of interest/stakeholders.

8. INSTITUTIONAL ADVERTISING AND SUPPORT

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Manage a service-learning web section and an online platform to facilitate the cooperative work between community needs and expertise from all stakeholders, as well as to enable the submission of candidatures/proposals of students and/or teachers.
Create or develop in conditions of continuous update a database or a catalogue with past/running/future projects or courses.
Advertise service-learning courses throughout the institution.
Support the visibility of students’ participation in service-learning projects of all students regardless of their age, class, culture and race.
Promote the dissemination of Service-Learning throughout the university community, as well as to representative entities, policy makers and administration sectors in Higher education
Promote the participation of social partners, third sector entities and others, in public events related to service-learning

9. STUDENT SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNINGS

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Promote students’ input in the design, implementation and/or evaluation of service-learning projects.
Provide students with practical social exercises of participating in policy making processes.
Engage students in activities involving taking responsibilities, community service, dialogue with peers and reflection.
Connect to movements in favour of social justice and democratic social change.
Incorporate consistent critical reflection sustaining longitudinal relationships and addressing structural inequalities.

10. PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY

To foster service-learning institutionalization, European higher education institutions should:

Develop sustainable and reciprocal partnerships between higher education institutions and civil society organisations through the implementation of service-learning programmes.
Mobilize appropriate community agency representatives serving as advocates and ambassadors for institutionalizing service-learning.
Observe the principles of coexistence and respect diversity in those involved in service-learning
Work with the community in the design, implementation and evaluation of service-learning projects
Ensure the inclusion of the diversity of perspectives.
Establish strategies for the celebration of the learning, the service and the partnership that make service-learning projects possible.
Relate service-learning projects with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Repository of Service-Learning Experiences

Learn to learn with homework

17/05/2022

Reflection on how girls and boys who start in the classroom learn more.

Senior couple enjoying the lake

NEW WAYS OF SENIOR LIFE OF IN MADRID

03/05/2022

The student in charge, will develop a summary of the Final Degree works, which have addressed the theme of the lifestyle, activities and public space of seniors in the city of Madrid.

Plataforma per la LLengua

S-L Experience with Plataforma per la Llengua (Balearic Islands)

03/05/2022

Plataforma per la Llengua (Pro-language Platform), the Catalan language NGO, is a well-established organisation in the Catalan-speaking territory that works to promote the Catalan language as a social cohesion tool

The service-learning experience in the bioclimatic design of public spaces in Madrid

14/03/2022

Students achieve a first professional approach to urban planning, while interacting with the different agents involved in a townin all phases of the project.

Elderly people dancing

Friendly senior living in cities, Madrid case study

14/03/2022

We have worked with a focus on the elderly to think about new forms of social and care community life as weel as to design safe and atractive urban itineraries.

Italian-Food-disorders

Why don’t we talk about eating disorders (DCAs)?

25/11/2021

A group of students of Communication Sciences, Marketing and Digital Media wanted to respond to the social problem of eating disorders in young people.

Lumsa University of Rome

Campaign to promote psychological well-being

15/11/2021

Focus on psychological wellbeing and related stigma, lack of awareness about the benefits of a psychological pathway, and limited financial incentives to access such services.

Lumsa University of Rome

“FENIX: Socio-economic reintegration of minors and young adults in conflict with the law.”

15/11/2021

To provide personal and professional tools and to foster the socioeconomic reintegration of minors and young adults in conflict with the law and subject to restrictive measures of freedom

Lumsa-University-Minors

“HOPE project – build your future: personal and professional development for Unaccompanied Foreign Minors”

15/11/2021

Aimed at young foreigners from 14 to 18 years old designed to promote their social and cultural integration and to provide them with personal and professional tools suitable for a more effective integration into the world of work

Volunteers helpin elderly people

Service-Learning and Social Interventions – engaging in meaningful activities with senior residents

02/11/2021

Due to COVID-19 senior residents of nursing homes in Croatia were isolated for months and were lacking diverse activities and social interaction with people outside the nursing homes.

Sub-section Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

02/11/2021

Our concept of Service-Learning encompasses a wide variety of formats: • Service-Learning classes • Mentoring programs • Civic engagement in student initiatives • Engagement Transfer • Civic Engagement Certificate

woman-therapist-taking-notes-in-clipboard

Taking care of the Other. Taking care of me

30/08/2021

Development of materials that can be used by the Psychologist of Residential Establishments for Elderly People for the relief of symptoms of Grief, Anxiety, Depression and Burnouts shown by formal caregivers during the pandemic.

nurse-checking-pulse-on-female-patient-s-wrist

InVuCaR – Intervene in Vulnerability to Empower in Network

30/08/2021

To support the families of the diocese to take care of their weakest members, namely the chronically ill and the very elderly, providing or facilitating access to various types of support.

COVID prevention

Train to Protect

30/08/2021

Since May 12, 2020, several training sessions have been held on COVID-19 preventive measures, via videoconference. The first took place for professionals in Residential Structures for the Elderly.

Special Smiles

Special Smiles

30/08/2021

Students of the Integrated Master's Degree in Dental Medicine (MIMD) will promote Oral Health to residents with special needs and their formal and informal caregivers.

healthy-food-and-medical-equipment

Train to Save

28/07/2021

To train students for civic intervention, as health promoters, preventing disease and building a healthy society, where raising these experiences is also educating for citizenship with repercussions for social cohesion.

social economy

Shared Value

28/07/2021

Support Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations in the elaboration of the Organizational Diagnosis and Strategic Plan, collectively constructed with members of the organization and associates.

Community Nutrition Intervention Targeted at Vulnerable Children and Youth

28/07/2021

Develop an intervention within the scope of Community Nutrition with vulnerable children and young people with a view to raising awareness about the acquisition of healthy eating habits.

Sharing Managers [Gestores da Partilha]

28/07/2021

Pastoral of Higher Education will be able to reinforce its identity, develop online and offline strategies for dissemination and approach to students from the various Higher Education Institutions in Viseu.

Promoting SL at the University of Deusto, Spain through Social Participation and Values (SPV)

21/07/2021

Carrying out tasks mainly based on providing educational support and leisure activities for persons in a situation of or at risk of social exclusion

Aspace Bikaia Filma

ASPACE BIZKAIA FILMA

13/07/2021

To promote the inclusion of disability in the world of artistic creation and to sensitize students about the reality of cerebral palsy

Psycologic help

INèDITnet

13/07/2021

SL Network that promotes Innovation and Knowledge Transfer between professors, researchers, and university students

Educating for sustainable development goals

09/07/2021

to raise awareness among young adolescents and university students about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Hands of student assembling molecular model according to directions on laptop screen

LEARN PHYSICS AND HAVE FUN

08/07/2021

Students prepare workshops on Physics and Responsible Consumption aimed at people with functional disabilities or at risk of social exclusion. We work with 7 different entities, the objectives of the service being different in each case.

social-worker-explaining-documents

Prácticas curriculares del Grado en Trabajo Social.

06/07/2021

During external internships, Social Work students at the University of La Rioja make contact with social reality through the activities carried out in the different centers where they carry out their internships.

San Rafael

Product design and 3D-printing in Health Sciences: an S-L experience in Pediatric Physiotherapy

06/07/2021

To design technological solutions in health through a collaborative and user-centred approach in order to generate social impact, thinking about the direct relationship between students and functional diversity children.

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Viana do Castelo Stucco Arts and Artists

02/07/2021

Cooperation has been understood by us as a form of cultural activism, dealing with problems, sharing experiences and skills, actions and knowledge, working towards common interests and goals.

Family conference

Familly conference in Olomouc region

29/06/2021

The goal is to support other institutions of social work to organize the family conference.

social-worker-explaining-documents

Social worker at school

29/06/2021

To promote the profession of social workers at schools. They cooperate with one school, where they try to monitor social problems among pupils and try to identify where social workers could be helpful as school staff.

Photo fo volunteers

Volunteering Centre at UPOL University

29/06/2021

They are helping with managing volunteering organization, connecting them with students and university saff, creating inner documentation for propagation, inner management

Italy-U.S. Mediated Exchange Project

29/06/2021

This S-L experience is a hybrid example, joining international, domestic and virtual service-learning.

Service-Learning Program for Diversity

23/06/2021

With my community partners, we have designed a 20-page digital Handbook for Students and Community Partners (updated each year) that provides key information on service-learning, cultural humility, and the expectations of each party during the semester.

Solidarity Classes

Solidarity Classes

21/06/2021

“The idea is that with very little we can do a lot”. Solidarity classes consider that education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.

Manifesto of 10 Positive Attitudes

Manifesto of 10 Positive Attitudes: an e-Service-Learning project

18/06/2021

Manifesto of 10 Positive Attitudes to raise awareness among young people about bullying and cyberbullying in order to prevent it. It is an interdisciplinary project.

“Parlane con me” (Let’s talk about it): an e-Service-Learning project

18/06/2021

Their service was an Advocacy Service-Learning activity aimed at raising awareness about issues of public interest.

“Gli Stagisti”: an e-Service-Learning project

17/06/2021

Instagram page called “Gli Stagisti”, in order to help young people to better orient themselves and take advantage of all the opportunities available in the job market

Ears to the Soul

16/06/2021

The service aim of this programme was to help people overcome the feeling of social isolation, maintain social contacts with other people and share their feelings.

loneliness

Self-Identity & Intercultural/intergenerational Learning

02/06/2021

As loneliness amongst student populations and older adults is well-documented, this module aims to address this issue, by bringing the groups together in a structured, academic and yet informal, way.

Hands shaking

Impact of COVID-19 on coping, social cohesion, and civic engagement

12/05/2021

Community partner needed information on the impact of COVID-19 on individuals’ and communities’ experiences of coping, social cohesion, and civic engagement.

meeting-science

Humanistic Leadership

04/05/2021

Escola Inclusiva

IPVC- Inclusive School-Service Learning

15/04/2021

IPVC Inclusive School project – This project aims at fostering the co-construction of in-service learning and volunteering projects to address community problems by offering alternative solutions.

Scolas inclusivas

Digital educational resources for learning language, reading and maths during COVID-19.

06/04/2021

Creating educational material for primary school children in the area of Reading and Mathematics in order to offer direct teaching to compensate, as far as possible, for the lack of schooling caused by COVID-19.

Rosaries

Development of a communication strategy for the prayer initiative Rosary Unites

06/04/2021

During the time of COVID-19 many christian didn't have possibility to participate in prayers and Liturgy of the Church. So on the base of "Vibrant TV" only official media hub for Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church with is present only on internet (Живе ТВ), we create daily rosary pray.

Students running

Inclusive Education, Social Justice and Sport

06/04/2021

Vulnerable people will be helped through inclusive and social education, fair and equal treatment and healthy and respectful habits through sport.

E-learning

Practical Research with cooperating Schools – Service Learning in a Viennese school

24/03/2021

To try out and get to know many new tools and methods under the special conditions of "involuntary" and distance teaching without exception in all subjects.

Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning

Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning

24/03/2021

The interdisciplinary and international service-learning experience include 25 students from 10 countries, 6 Universities and 13 different Master programs.

Cultural Diversity

Proxecto PEINAS (Pedagoxía Intercultural e Aprendizaxe-Servizo)

23/03/2021

Students of the university course "Intercultural Pedagogy" manage chanels of different social media where they share news, reflections and facts concerning to interculturality, prompting also the audience to come.

Babes-Bolyai-University

Connecting students with the needs of shelter animals through S-L

22/03/2021

Several NGOs in Romania in charge with animal shelters and animal protection have communicated through social media their needs for persons to volunteer/ help them with the activities at the shelters during the pandemic periods.

University Complutense of Madrid

Learning by educating: Virtual service-learning experience of oral health promotion

22/03/2021

The project aims to promote oral health in people with disabilities. The methodology combines service learning with inter-professional education, through the collaborative work of dentistry students.

Psychological training

Psychological Counselling ”Poradnya”

17/03/2021

To improve the mental health of the population by providing psychological assistance to young people and adults through practical psychology and protection of spiritual, mental and social health.

Housing

Learning through the Assumption of Social Responsibility: Social Inequality, Poverty and Housing

17/03/2021

The aim is to combine the approach of community-based research with the approach of service learning. The students worked together in three project teams and developed research and service ideas for community partners.

Criminology in the Real World

17/03/2021

One of our projects entails working with the local probation service to research how online support and supervision can be provided during the COVID-19 pandemic.

E-MAD: Improving Digital Literacy through Learning-Service and E-Mentoring

16/03/2021

Training proposal funded by Medialab, at the University of Granada, whose intention is to improve the use of technologies and digital media to promote the development of digital skills that assist in the search for employment and incorporation into the knowledge society of those citizens who are at social risk.

Volunteering@WU - Lernen macht Schule

Volunteering@WU – Lernen macht Schule

15/03/2021

The "Volunteering@WU - Lernen macht Schule" program initiated by WU, Caritas Wien, and REWE International AG supports socially disadvantaged young people with their education while at the same time encouraging university students to volunteer and take social responsibility.

Creating an Asset-map for Veterans of the Joint Forces Operation in Ukraine

19/02/2021

Students develop their knowledge of organizations of the social sphere, especially working with combatants, developed skills of research and communication and found a lack of organizations providing social services

Educating with You (EducamosContigo)

18/02/2021

Post COVID: EducamosContigo is an interuniversity and inter-optional Learning-Service program that offers psychoeducational, school and digital literacy accompaniment online to families and students in situations of educational and social vulnerability at all pre-university educational levels.

Journalism and Citizenship: a Practical Introduction

18/02/2021

Post COVID: "Journalism and Citizenship, a Practical Introduction" wants students to reflect on the importance of (hyper)local journalism for the local (Brussels) community.

Home for children and youth without parental care - a public institution

Service-Learning at “Home for children and youth without parental care”

18/02/2021

Post COVID: Public Home for children and youth without parental care. During the last 12 months after COVID restrictions we tried to maintain the contact between the students and the children online, but this has not substituted in any way the in-person experience.

DO YOU KNOW SDG FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?

03/12/2020

The "SApS ODS?" project for Global Justice aims to move from "Education for Global Citizenship" to a global justice paradigm that is considered more holistic, comprehensive and transformative.

Social Economy

Master Social Economics University of Antwerp ‘Social economy in the city of Antwerp’

23/11/2020

42 master students worked alongside the employees of six Antwerp social enterprises with the particular aim to foster social inclusion and social well-being via active employment.

Ludoteca Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Development and evaluation of a Service-Learning project for vulnerable children

23/11/2020

Study on service-learning experiences carried out at the Complutense University of Madrid. In this study it was found that the use of Service-Learning methodology was very limited

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Gender and technology: promoting new technological vocations

04/11/2020

Sharing Ideas is a Service-Learning project in which undergraduate and master's degree students from the University of Barcelona (UB) prepare lecture-workshops on interesting topics related to their studies and teach these in high schools which the university visits.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

15/10/2020

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (Postdoctoral) A call for one post-doctoral research grant (BIPD) is open for the project “CApS – Catholic University and Service Learning: Innovation and Social Responsibility” Deadline 18th October 2020

SENSE flyer

SENSE Center for Civic Engagement and Responsible Management Education

01/09/2020

The SENSE Center enables students and civil society organizations as well as schools to jointly implement a practical project. In this way, students get to know the work in civil society and the educational system and experience what it means to take responsibility for society.

Physiotherapy for children with rare diseases

01/09/2020

To sensitize students to the true needs of families of children with rare diseases, beyond the necessary but insufficient focus on the child's disease.

University College London students

Community Engaged Learning Service

23/07/2020

A consultancy at UCL that aims to enable the development of more Community Engaged Learning opportunities into teaching. Students and community partners have been at the centre of the service, co-designing its offering, processes and resources.

Virtual workshop

Workshop Series on Service Learning

22/07/2020

Workshop series Civic engagement at universities - examples for good practice in urban development , Engagement with and through digitalization as well as Civic engagement at changing/evolving universities.

Festival EFIC

Transformative Communication and Cultural Efficacy Festival

22/07/2020

To strengthen social awareness, ethics, and critical thinking in future media professionals through their engagement in the process of developing with a social partner an action on Communication for Social Change.

International Students Limerick Inside Out

Limerick Inside Out: Environment and Well-Being

22/07/2020

To enhance the students’ experience of being in Ireland by working closely with local civic groups.It incorporates activities designed to foster student awareness and understanding of environmental concerns and social innovation.

Successful Entrepreneur woman

Success cases of entrepreneurial refugee women

15/07/2020

To collect and present in an attractive way successful stories of refugee women which had set up small business in Spain.

Teamwork at university

Reason and Engage

15/07/2020

Reason and Engage is an elective course for students from 3rd bachelor onwards. Students from different study programs are stimulated to reflect on urgent social challenges.

Earthquake Tirana

Social Services in times of crisis

15/07/2020

Responding to the community needs in times of the natural disaster, after the 6.4 earthquake in Albania in November 2019.Temporary accommodation, tents, social, psychological and edutainment services were offered to the affected families.

SLEEP AND COVID_19: LET’S GET OUR DREAMS BACK

13/07/2020

Evaluate the psychological consequences of Covid-19; raise awareness of sleep disorders resulting from Covid-19; spread solutions to this problem.

Sunda Together

SUNDAY TOGETHER

13/07/2020

To valorize the Villa Borghese park in Rome, as a meeting place for young people and a place to take care of its green spaces without their mobile phones.

IO COME TE

I’M LIKE YOU

13/07/2020

"I’m like you" born from a group of 3 psychology students who decided to face the cyberbullying problem. They had opened an Instagram page “Io come te” (I'm like you) to raise awareness on this issue, felt even more urgent because, during the pandemic, social media were the only way to have relationships with others.

Father Heart Engaged Learning Festival

13/07/2020

Inclusive educational event that offers an opportunity for all people to come together on an equal platform to share, learn or extend skills, knowledge, and expertise leading to sustainable livelihoods.

LEV-Marktplatz

Learning Service Responsibility

06/07/2020

The project is determined by inclusion - The students get to know new fields and gain experience in areas (outside of school) with which they have not yet had any contact.

The Circular Economy Challenge

VUB Chair of Social Entrepreneurship – The Circular Economy Challenge

06/07/2020

The VUB Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, together with its partners, wanted to stimulate the creativity of students, entrepreneurs, and employees to develop innovative solutions for the circular economy.

Vub Chair

VUB Social Entrepreneurship Chair

01/07/2020

The main objective of this chair is to bring together both academia and business, NGO’s and public organizations in search of sustainable business models of social entrepreneurship.

Quality Control

Test reviewing as service-learning

29/06/2020

Service-learning project for providing independent reports on the quality of the tests available at the Psychology Test Library of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona while teaching psychometrics at undergraduate level.

Multiracial group of young people taking selfie

Learning aids for disadvantaged children, adolescents and young refugees in Nuremberg

24/06/2020

As a part of a practical assignment, students accompany children and adolescents as well as young refugees in Nuremberg.

Against Trafficking and other Human Rights Abuses in prostitution contexts

09/06/2020

The Project aims is to cover the social need to improve efficiency in the use of public resources, as well as to complete the training of students of the UNED (National Distance Education University)

Learning by educating: Service-learning experience of oral health promotion

05/06/2020

Our service objective is to educate in oral health, motivating people with different abilities to promote autonomy in their oral hygiene habits.

Service Learning in the Initial Training of Education Professionals

05/06/2020

Training of Education Professionals and Doctorate in Education, both include a subject with the principles of "Education for Sustainability".

Community Service Learning in Teacher Education

03/06/2020

All aspiring teachers fulfill community service learning during their educational bachelor program in a subject called ‘Identity In Diversity’. They follow this course during each year of the three-year program.

Loiola Law Clinic: Service-Learning for Social Justice

01/06/2020

Law Clinic has developed a legal-administrative dimension to serve people in a position of vulnerability and exclusion. Also translating the legal-administrative language into a simple language for the average citizen.

Federación Injucam Consulting Project

08/05/2020

Promotes social inclusion of marginalized children by developing comprehensive and stable socio-educational projects permanently adapted to emerging needs.

ALEPO SOAP (JABONES DE ALEPO)

30/04/2020

The NGO Rescue supports Syrian women to get a decent job in our country until the situation in their country improves and they will be able to return to their homes.

Los arrecifes de coral

22/04/2020

The main objective of the experience the design of a project following a “food chain” structure in which every participant was able to learn something and teach to other people

EcoApS-Educa

22/04/2020

University students took charge of doing an exhaustive research on mobile apps which may serve to develop and record a nature itinerary, as well as other apps aimed at plants and animals’ identification.

Proyecto Norte Joven

22/04/2020

The students should create an idea of how to carry the message they have to their target audience and also how to make it more attractive to them.

Amis Inserción Social Marketing

22/04/2020

To help to know the current labour market, design the professional profile, access tools for job search, prepare individual and group job interviews, for vunerable peple.

Lonelyness Solutions for elder people

22/04/2020

Working as a group, and trying to help Elder people to fight against the problem of lonelyness has been more satisfying than we ever expected.

Support in raising funds for Amis Entity

22/04/2020

From the finance team we had an objective, to obtain financing for the entity so that they could face their expenses and their day by day.

Working in Positive

21/04/2020

Dissemination of the Working in Positive organization and campaign to fight against labour discrimination of people with HIV. For the University to become a Working In Positive company.

quality seal

Standard Label Bequal

21/04/2020

Business advise for an organisation that works crediting businesses with a quality seal that means the organization covers a series of requisites that have to do with disabled people.

Data Collection on Trafficking in Human Beings

15/04/2020

Consulting service to provide a diagnosis about trafficking on human beings in Spain. Specifically, the diagnosis must focus on the importance on data for making political decisions.

Data Culture in Human Trafficking

15/04/2020

To raise awareness about the significance of data culture related with human trafficking; study and understand the complexity of human trafficking data and providing a diagnosis of the human trafficking situation in Spain.

UNHCR, lost profits from red cards

15/04/2020

Report on the loss of income by asylum seekers from red ID cards in Spain

meeting-science

MEETING SCIENCE

14/04/2020

Share learnings between students with different abilities by creating a climate of respect and coexistence that allows developing spaces and times of practical life knowledge.

Good practices

New forms of senior living in Madrid Healthy neighbourhoods

New forms of senior living in Madrid

07/04/2022

New forms of living arrangements for the elderly in Madrid city from the renovation and design of public space

Service to society is a language that knows no barriers

Service-Learning at Strathmore University, Kenya

26/02/2021

Each student at SU does 200 hours of community service after completing first year of study. There is a structured way students are supervised and how they report their reflections/learning points. Based on the need of organization or community.

Leaflet SL UAB

Promoting S-L in the UAB through Final Degree Projects

24/04/2020

Our program is a transverse university program which aim is to maximize the number of students doing their Final Degree Project (FDP) with Service-Learning methodology. This program is focused on three different actors: a) social and environmental organizations and institutions b) university teachers c) university students.

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Strategy definition for Caritas labor insertion companies

11/11/2019

The project consisted in developing the business strategy of 3 different labor insertion companies (Taller99, Asiscar, Carifood) belonging to the NGO Cáritas. Taller 99 is dedicated to manufacturing leather goods (bags, wallets ...) and making clothes, Asiscar works in the transport sector, doing removals and transporting goods, and Carifood focuses in the catering industry.

University of Pretoria

Large-Scale Community Engagement.

24/09/2019

Community engagement (CE) or Academic Service Learning (ASL) is embedded into the academic programs and provides a deep learning experience for students, fostering the development of skills for managing relationships, problem-solving and civic responsibility, which provides a competitive edge to students entering the world of work.

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Safe friend is always a trend!

17/09/2019

Due to the fast and constant development of IT and social media in today’s world, the informatics curriculum in primary schools cannot follow the fast-changing trends and easily becomes out of date, failing to cover important topics, such as child safety and child security on the Internet or child manipulation by social media influencers

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Mothers Unit

16/07/2019

Mothers Units are an innovative and valuable resource for women who have to face criminal responsibility and have minor children under their care, for the children to be able to remain with their mother in a stimulating and safe environment for the children development.

Please, share exhaustive information about service-learning good practices in higher education. It is mainly composing of qualitative data in order to share common quality criteria and systematized contents.

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S-L Projects

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27/11/2019

COMMIT – Committing to the social dimension in universities

This project builds on the work of a previous project – ALLUME, http://allume.eucen.eu -which developed three self-evaluation tools to help universities reviewing their internal strategy for the implementation of a comprehensive and coherent Lifelong Learning University approach.

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11/11/2019

Europe Engage

08/11/2019

European Observatory of Service Learning in Higher Education (EOSLHE)

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Service-Learning in Higher Education

Service-learning (sometimes referred to as community based or community engaged learning) is an innovative pedagogical approach that integrates meaningful community service or engagement into the curriculum and offers students’ academic credit for the learning that derives from active engagement within the community and work on a real world problem. Reflection and experiential learning strategies underpin the learning process and the service is linked to the academic discipline.

It brings together students, academics and the community whereby all become teaching resources, problem solvers and partners. In addition to enhancing academic and real world learning, the overall purpose of is to instil in students a sense of civic engagement and responsibility and work towards positive social change within society.

service-learning

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

A good service-learning practice is an experience that meets the main characteristics of this methodology:

community-service

Integrates meaningful service and meets real needs

academic-discipline

The service is linked to the academic curriculum

learning-process-reflection

Reflection is part of the learning process

community-organization

Community organizations are valued as partners

student-strong-voice

Students have a strong voice

service-learning-methodology

Who we are
University Service-Learning Association

We are a Spanish association created in 2017 with the purpose of strengthening the collaboration and exchange of experiences of Service-Learning, disseminate educational and social projects based on this methodology, promote research and support the processes of institutionalization of the Service-Learning in the Spanish universities.

Overview of University Service-Learning Association

Core Team

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Pilar Aramburuzabala

Director of the EOSLHE
Autonomous University of Madrid

Bio

She has been working for the past 20 years on Service-Learning with university students. She is the Coordinator of the Service-Learning Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the UAM. President of the Association of University Service-Learning and promoter of the European Network of Learning-Service in Higher Education. She is an advisor to the Municipal Office of Service-Learning of the Madrid City Council.

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Berta Paz

Deputy Director of the EOSLHE
Universidad de les Illes Balears

Bio

PhD in Education with European Mention, Master in Development Cooperation, Master in Bioethics and Humanization of Assistance. Degree in pedagogy, Degree in Audiovisual Communication. Deputy Director of the UIB Graduate Center.

Currently, she is responsible for the Service-Learning program at UIB, coordinator of the S-L Illes Balears Center and is involved on a R&D project that includes S-L approach.

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Marta Alonso

Coordinator of the EOSLHE
S-L (U) Association

Bio

As a coordinator, I am responsible for the implementation of the European Observatory to enhance and disseminate the knowledge of Service-Learning in Higher Education. Master in Management of Non-Profit Entities and BA (Hons) Design and Media Management. Over 15 years of experience working on Social Innovation Projects and Cooperation for Development Projects.

Alvar Ribeiro EOSLHE researcher

Álvaro Ribeiro

Researcher of the EOSLHE
S-L (U) Association

Bio

Teaching, researching, and producing in the field of organizational studies, his theoretical and/or empirical work aims at the advancement of knowledge about educational organizations, organizing, and the informal contexts in which such organizations operate. Under cooperation protocols between universities and Portuguese and EU youth work agencies, he has been actively participating in research tasks and representing the Portuguese team in international partner meetings, especially in terms of multi-metaphoric research projects. He has been focused in research-based analysis and monitoring (of the European Solidarity Corps), approaches to participation and citizenship education and learning, competence development and capacity building, strategies and practices for organizational development, and learning of organizations and networks in the European youth sector.

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