La Comisión Europea aprueba el consorcio de universidades europeas CIVIS, en el que participa la UAM

El consorcio CIVIS, a European Civic University, en el que participa la UAM, ha sido seleccionado por la Comisión Europea para poner en marcha una de las primeras universidades europeas, que permitirá a todos los miembros de las universidades que lo componen estudiar, enseñar, investigar y realizar gestiones fácilmente en los distintos campus. 

CIVIS nace con el compromiso de impulsar la relación de las universidades con la comunidad. El aprendizaje-servicio es una de las señas de identidad de este consorcio, que además tiene otros pilares: reforzar una educación inclusiva y de calidad; promover el multilingüismo; abordar las relaciones con África y el Mediterráneo como un reto global y responder a los grandes desafíos en materia de clima y energía, movilidad, salud, herencia cultural y transformación digital.

Este grupo de universidades agrupará a casi 384.000 estudiantes y 55.000 profesores, investigadores y personal de administración y servicios. Está integrado por ocho grandes instituciones: Universidad Aix Marsella (Francia), la Universidad Nacional y Kapodistríaca de Atenas (Grecia), la Universidad Libre de Bruselas (Bélgica), la Universidad de Bucarest (Rumanía), la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España), la Universidad La Sapienza de Roma (Italia), la Universidad de Estocolmo (Suecia) y la Universidad Eberhard- Karl de Tubinga (Alemania). 

La Red Nacional de Aprendizaje-Servicio en Actividad Física y Deporte organiza la II Jornada de Innovación Universitaria

El 27 y 28 de Mayo se celebrará la II Jornada de Aprendizaje-Servicio en Actividad Física y Deporte en la Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Esta actividad está organizada por la Red Nacional de ApS-AFD, que sigue creciendo y que está haciendo una excelente labor de difusión de buenas prácticas e investigación en el área.

Puedes inscribirte gratis aquí: https://jornadasapsafd2019.wixsite.com/jornadasapsafd2019

9th Spanish & 1st European Conference on Service-Learning in Higher Education

The 9th Spanish & 1st European Conference on Service-Learning In Higher Education will take place in September 20th-22nd in Madrid,  hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Pontificia Comillas and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. 

The theme of the conference is the role of service-learning in the construction of global citizenship.

The conference will be a great opportunity for  meeting with colleagues from all over Europe, sharing S-L experiences, research and processes of institutionalization of service-learning in European universities, as well as for deepening understanding, reflecting and encouraging the debate on aspects related to theoretical and practical issues. We hope that the Conference will also contribute to promoting practice in European universities, encouraging universities to generate stable structures that support this methodology, and strengthening national and European networks by analyzing their structure, needs and challenges.

Over 300 professionals will meet and participate in plenary sessions, and present research, S-L experiences and theoretical contributions through oral communications, posters and symposia. In addition, meetings of the Spanish networks and the emerging European Network of S-L in higher education have been organized in the context of the conference.

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!

Web of the Conference

Service-learning awarded again!

The company MSD has won the award in the Corporate Reputation category at the 17th edition of the Fundamed & Wecare-u Awards, for sponsoring the service-learning project Smart World Iinitiative: Educating in the discovery and rational use of antibiotics through crowdsourcing.

Congratulations Víctor Jiménez and the team in the School of Pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid!

Awarded project

Celebrating the recognition granted to Europe Engage!

The project "Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe" has been acknowledged as a "Success Story - PSC Higher Education.

The project has been marked as "success story" in the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, a database where you can find descriptions and results of projects supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport. 

Europe Engage - a Success Story

Congratulations to all partners and partner institutions! 

   Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
   Ireland: University of Galway, Ireland 
   University of Brighton, United Kingdom 
   Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal
   Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
   University of Bologna, Italy
   University of Zagreb, Croatia 
   University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 
   Erasmus University, Holand 
   Ghent University, Belgium
   International Management Center Krems-University of Applied Science, Austria 
   University of Helsinki, Finland

Curso de verano de la UIMP sobre aprendizaje-servicio universitario

La Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo ha organizado el curso "Aprendizaje-Servicio. ¿Puede una metodología docente transformar la sociedad?", que se celebrará en Santander los días 4 al 6 de Julio.

El objetivo general de este curso es promover el Aprendizaje-Servicio como un enfoque pedagógico que integra y desarrolla el compromiso cívico en la educación superior, los estudiantes, el personal académico y la comunidad en general. Para ello se propone los siguientes objetivos específicos:

• Conocer los conceptos básicos del Aprendizaje-servicio, su fundamentación y su valor      pedagógico.
• Explorar experiencias de aprendizaje-servicio en distintas titulaciones y universidades       nacionales e internacionales.
• Valorar la utilidad y oportunidad del aprendizaje-servicio como propuesta pedagógica    para unir el éxito académico y el compromiso social.
• Diseñar proyectos de Aprendizaje-Servicio viables y contextualizados.

El curso se dirige a profesores universitarios, autoridades académicas, expertos e investigadores en metodologías activas, expertos en formación pedagógica universitaria, representantes de entidades sociales, representantes de organismos públicos y estudiantes de Pedagogía y Magisterio.

Para más información sobre el curso, pincha aquí. 

Para hacer la inscripción, pincha aquí.

¡Te esperamos en Santander!

A Global Classification for Recognizing Outstanding University Civic Engagement

University rankings are becoming increasingly influential around the world. These systems are mostly research oriented, and count factors such as external funding, numbers of articles and books written by faculty members, library resources, etc. But universities have different missions and goals, and some are not included in the rankings. University civic engagement is one of them.

This topic was discussed at the Campus Compact 30th Anniversary Conference, that took place a few months ago in Boston. I moderated a panel organized by Talloires Network with my colleagues Lorene Hoyt, Gul Zehra and Hector Opazo. 

Our main point is that universities around the world are committed to strengthening the social responsibility of higher education by improving conditions in communities and responding to global challenges such as poverty, health, and illiteracy, while improving students´ learning. Given the social and academic relevance of this mission, it is necessary to develop rankings that take civic engagement as criteria.

This session engaged participants in the development of an alternative approach to rankings that values contributions to and from communities and public goods. The debate evolved around issues such as: Improving current rankings and developing civic engagement rankings, national, international and global rankings on civic engagement, agreed criteria of university civic engagement, benefits and limitations, and alternatives to rankings. 

There was an agreement on the need to improve the current rankings and developing a classification system that considers civic engagement and social responsibility practices essential in the reshaping of higher education. Much is still to be done in this field, but the debate is open...