European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education

EASLHE

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The European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education was founded in 2019 at the occasion of the 2nd European Conference of Service-Learning in Higher Education.
The aim of the Association is to promote service-learning in higher education in Europe and to foster scholarly activities related to it.

These include but are not limited to the following activities:

  • to disseminate information and knowledge about service-learning
  • to foster and develop training activities and resources
  • to establish links between local, transnational and global networks
  • to organize meetings, exchanges, seminars, conferences, congresses and other events, alone and/or with groupings pursuing the same objective
  • to advocate service-learning development in higher-education institutions
  • to contribute to the development of policy recommendations and initiatives
  • to support individuals and institutions in developing service-learning projects
  • to conduct and encourage research and scientific publications on service-learning
  • to raise funds, receive legacies and donations to realize the goals of the association

Institutional community engagement heatmap

Dimensions of community engagement
Authenticity
Social needs
Communities
Spread
Sustainability
Teaching and learning
Research
Service and knowledge exchange
Students
Management / partnerships
Management / policies
Peer support

Heatmap colour legend:
Lowest level
Highest level
In the TEFCE Toolbox: „4 The heatmap is focused on the dimensions of community-engagement activities. The dimensions that relate to the supportive environment for community engagement (Dimensions VI – Management/policies; and Dimension VII – Supportive peers) are only subject to the ‘Authenticity’ characteristic of the heatmap since those dimensions relate to ensuring the institutional conditions for engaging with communities rather than on engagement activities themselves.“

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The list below shows three institutions that have different results in their institutional heatmap (see methodological note*).

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The list below shows three institutions that have different results in their institutional heatmap (see methodological note*).

* Methodological note:
The aim of this feature is to allow users to explore the variety of ways in which universities approach and organise community engagement, without allowing a direct/competitive comparison of performance. Similar and different institutions are automatically generated based on the results of their institutional community engagement heatmap results. The method used is applying Euclidean distance between institutions to provide the similar and differing institutions, which calculates the distance in an n-dimensional space between two cases.