Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the team of the ERASMUS+ project that promotes learning in the service of the community (service-learning, S-L), Service-Learning: Intersectoral Collaboration Practices for the development of students’ soft skills and socially engaged universities organized an event to present the activities to be carried out within it.
The event took place starting at 9:30 a.m., in the Senate Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Bucharest, the full program can be accessed here. The project is implemented by the University of Bucharest in partnership with four other member universities of the CIVIS Alliance (Autonomous University of Madrid, Aix-Marseille University, National and Capodistrian University of Athens and Sapienza University of Rome).
The five projects carried out within Service-Learning: Intersectoral Collaboration Practices for the development of students’ soft skills and socially engaged universities addressed human, social and environmental needs from the perspective of social justice and sustainable economy.
The first project, SDG Awareness and Behavioral Changes. Case of Sustainable Consumption Acronym: SDG-ABC aimed to raise awareness of sustainable consumption and carry out activities that supported this cause.The second S-L project, Therapeutic Garden: The Green Outing Experience, aimed to improve social interaction and communication among students.The third project, Support services for the assessment of students with special educational needs came to support students with special educational needs. It aimed to perfect the initial training in special psycho-pedagogy, by including S-L practices in the compulsory curriculum. At the same time, it aimed to raise awareness of the need to include children with special educational needs, but also to improve teachers’ skills in this process.The fourth service-learning project, Chemistry Goes Outdoors, allowed children, middle and high school pupils, but also involved students to acquire and develop specific transversal skills.The last project, Reading Caravan, aimed to improve the reading skills of children in rural areas, using an application to test their skills, but also to reward those students who obtain good scores in the digital platform dedicated to the project.More details on each individual activity can be found here.The project team of the University of Bucharest included prof. Magdalena Iordache Platis, PhD, lect. Delia-Laura Popescu, PhD, assoc. prof. Marilena Bratu, PhD, prof. Otniel Ioan Bunaciu, PhD, assoc. prof. Cristian Buică-Belciu, PhD, as well as Raluca Amza, Erasmus officer.The coordinating institution of the Service-Learning project is Eurasia Net, which promotes non-formal education and cultural cooperation in Europe and between Europe and Asia.
SECŢIUNE ACCESIBILIZATĂ PENTRU PERSOANELE CU DIZABILITĂŢI DE VEDERE
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The first activities of the ERASMUS+ project team promoting learning in the service of the community
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