View Public Project: Service-Learning in Europe: Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe [PR116300]

Institutionen

• IMC Fachhochschule Krems GmbH
• Universität Complutense (Madrid)

Personen

• Altenburger, Reinhard

The ‘Europe Engage’ Project seeks to embed the concept and practice of the civic university trough Service-Learning (S-L) and student engagement with community. The overall aim of ‘Europe Engage’ will be to promote Service-Learning as a pedagogical approach that embeds and develops civic engagement within higher education, students, staff and the wider community. The establishment of service-learning and regional networks can ensure the development of best practice and can enable the building of the ‘community’ into the higher education curriculum resulting in significant benefits to the student, academic, university, community and nation.

‘Europe Engage’ seeks to enact this through the adopting and mainstreaming of service-learning as a key way to connect students and universities to the wider society so as to maintain and develop democracy and healthy levels of social capital within a European context. Service-learning is a key approach in terms of embedding a culture of political and civic literacy among the student population within higher education. It connects academic learning to community service through partnership, reciprocity, reflection and social contact. The values of trust, mutuality, co-creation, inter-dependence and mutuality are central to community-university service-learning partnership.

The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2 - Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practice

• Lehren und Lernen (Prozesse und Methoden) / Lernen / Unterrichtsmethode
• Lehren und Lernen (Prozesse und Methoden) / Unterricht / Unterrichtsmethode
• soziales Umfeld (Gesellschaft, Kultur, Sprache und Religion) / soziokulturelle Umgebung / soziales Umfeld
• Geographische Einheiten / Europa