Online workshop series: Embedding Community Engaged Research and Learning in Higher Education Curricula

Are you interested in educational innovation through the involvement of students in research activities and collaborative practices with local communities?

The E+ CIRCLET project was designed to develop and support the capacity of academics for community engaged research and learning, or Science Shop projects. In the past three years, we have been working with more than 100 academics who have been experimenting with building community engaged research and learning (CERL) into their curriculum & teaching across a wide range of disciplines.

Find out what we have learned and join the discussion during one of our upcoming workshops!

 We hope to see you there,

The members of the CIRCLET Consortium

Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

ENGAGED RESEARCH & LEARNING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN BRUSSELS AND BEYOND

May 24th – 10.30 AM – 16u30 PM (CEST)- USquare site Brussels

Please join us for

  • Key note by Thomas Farnell and Bojana Culum followed by World Café (participatory discussion tables)
  • Ideating and planning for the VUB/ULB OpenLab (Brussels Centre for participatory research and learning) that is to be founded in 2024.
  • Presenting and discussing the lessons learned from the CIRCLET project
  • Networking apero and inspirational market

More information + booking links can be found here

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

CIRCLET closing event, Organised by UOC

BUILDING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTO LEARNING AND TEACHING: A FAST-FORWARD CONFERENCE

June 14th – 9 AM – 12.30 PM (IST/BST) // 10 AM – 13.30 PM (CEST) – Online

Please join us for:

  • Learning how innovative learning communities for teachers & researchers can be used to strengthen community engagement.
  • Debating how to rethink education and research with and for local communities through community engagement experts.
  • Stimulating reflection through our CIRCLET reflective journal.
  • Getting inspired by CIRCLET’s case-studies.
  • Bringing together people from all over Europe interested in educational innovation through community engagement.

And you are part of the university staff as a lecturer, researcher or administrator and you want to…

  • Offer your students real-world community-engaged learning.
  • Support local communities through curriculum-based collaboration.
  • Explore how to best use educational technology to support community engagement.
  • Build your local and international network

More information, schedule + booking links can be found here

Technological University Dublin

ON-LINE CONVERSATIONS AND A WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTO THE CURRICULUM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

June 20th – 2PM – 4.30 PM (IST/BST) // 3PM – 5.30PM (CEST) – Online

Please join us for an international online workshop exploring how to embed Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Together we will consider the benefits of CERL and how to maximise them, by identifying steps to build a positive culture to help lecturers and senior management to implement and grow CERL in HEIs.

  • A series of short presentations (including case studies of CERL projects, from different stakeholder perspectives, and responses from international speakers) interspersed with interactive elements.
  • Following the short presentations, an interactive workshop on how to identify and address key challenges, and amplify key benefits, to develop a positive culture to help embed CERL in Higher Education Institutions.
  • Finally we will introduce and share the new CIRCLET educational resources to support lecturers to rethink their teaching to include CERL.

Confirmed speakers so far include:

  •  Dr Rajesh Tandon, founder of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia, India and UNESCO Co-Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
  •  Dr Vivienne Patterson, Head of Skills, Engagement and Statistics at the Higher Education Authority, Ireland.

Open for all academics, CERL support staff, senior leaders, policymakers, librarians and other HEI staff, from the Irish and international education and research communities, and community partners.

More information, schedule + booking links can be found here

Corvinus University Budapest

LEARNING CIRCLES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESEARCH & LEARNING: ONLINE SEMINAR

June 22th – 8.00 AM – 11.00 AM (IST/BST) // 9.00 AM – 12.00 AM (CEST) – Online

We invite you to our international online training seminar on community-engaged research and learning for:

  • insights of courses with community partners
  • train the trainer „compass” for the upskilling of lecturers in community engagement
  • peer learning of lecturers via experiential learning
  • reimagination of courses for community-engaged learning

At this three-hour online seminar we are presenting the courses reimagined in CIRCLET as well as descriptions of project outputs on:

  • How to redesign courses for community engagement?
  • How to run a continuous professional development online module for community engagement?
  • How to set-up and run learning circles of lecturers for community engagement?

More information, schedule + booking links can be found here

Queens University Belfast

This event will be held during the summer, further details will be circulated in June.