Trainingsprogramm "Service-learning Pedagogy for Community Development during Wartime and Recovery"
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From May 21 to 24, guests from the Erasmus+ ServU project partner universities met at the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt to conduct the training program “Service-learning Pedagogy for Community Development during Wartime and Recovery".
In the first phase ("seeding"), the project description envisages that the service-learning methodology is adapted to wartime and recovery, and that through trainings the adapted methodology is taught to faculty members of Ukrainian HEIs (so-called planting seeds into heads).
Thus, the training program was aimed at teachers and employees of Ukrainian universities dealing with teaching excellence. The event brought together 30 representatives from the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Sumy State University and the Dnipro University of Technology.
The workshops were delivered by experts both from the above mentioned universities as well as from the Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta di Roma, the KU Leuven and of course from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
The training program included six separate workshops dedicated to such topics as:
- Universities response to the war in Ukraine
- Service-learning theory during war and recovery and e-Service-learning
- Benefits of Service-learning for peacebuilding education and civic engagement
- How to identify community's, students’ and teachers’ needs?
- Analysys of examples of Service-learning practices
- Suggestions to the Guidelines "Service-learning Pedagogy for Community Development during Wartime and Recovery" that will be elaborated and launched within the Work Package 2 (WP2) of the ServU project, leaded by our university.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Meier, Vice President for Studies and Teaching and Dr. Anna Marcos Nikol, Director of the International Office welcomed the participants. Besides colleagues from the School of Transformation and Sustainability, Rowena Roppelt and Marina Tsoi, delivered a keynote on “Jesuit Worldwide Learning - (Digital) Higher Education at the Margins”.
We do hope that this training program will help the participants to implement service-learning projects at their home universities and to proceed with other stages of the ServU project. In order to disseminate the information to other universities, and probably also to high schools, a toolkit with a detailed description of the workshops will be developed in the near future.