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Lorraine Tansey National University of Ireland, Galway Recognition of nonformal learning through Higher Education Civic Engagement Strategies Higher Education in Ireland Tradition of respect for education Free higher education since mid-1990s 2-tier system Universities x 7 Institutes of Technology x 13 (DIT and Specialist Colleges) National enrolment in HE c.200k University enrolment c.110k and growing annually National Review of Higher Education 2030 (2011) Endorses the civic mission of higher education and that ‘engaging with the wider society’ is ‘one of the three interconnected core roles of higher education; Defines ‘engagement with business and industry, with the civic life of the community, with public policy and practice, with artistic, cultural and sporting life and with other educational providers in the community and regions and it includes an increasing emphasis on international engagement’; Available at www.hei.ie Community Adult & Continuing Education; Distance & Online Learning; Access & Recruitment of Research on diverse Learners; civic issues Community Fellowships. Volunteering Knowledge Sharing; Economic Service Learning/ Regeneration; Engaged Research Community Based Access to Infrastructure; Teaching & Learning Learning Research Probono Advice; Board Representation (Internal & External) Service/Other Volunteering Volunteering Service Learning Certificate of Participation Academic Credit Academic Credit Campus Engage A mutually beneficial knowledge-based collaboration between the higher education institution, its staff and students, with the wider community, through community-campus partnerships and including the activities of Service Learning/Community based Learning, Community engaged research, Volunteering, Community/Economic regeneration, Capacity- building and Access/Widening participation. (Tempus IV 2009) Europe and Arab World) – Tawasol Project Developing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Partnerships across the Curriculum Jordan and Lebanon Jordan - Hashemite University in Zarqa (lead partner - central Jordan), Private University of Zarqa and Al-Albeit University (northern Jordan) Lebanon - American University of Beirut and University of Balamand in Tripoli. European – University of Gothenburg, NUI Galway, University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and University of Roehampton, London (lead partner) Key Action - Strategic Partnerships for higher education - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service- Learning within Higher Education in Europe 2014-2017 Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain (Director) National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (Co-Director) University of Brighton, United Kingdom University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Erasmus University of Rotterdam , Netherlands Instituto Superior de Psicología Aplicada, Portugal University of Zagreb, Croatia University of Bologna, Italy Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Ghent University, Belgium University of Applied Science-Krems, Austria University of Helsinki, Finland Defining and Characterising the Civic University • Civic Professionalism (Sullivan, 1998) • Engagement (ACU, 2002) • Engaged Scholarship (Boyer, 1996) • Public engagement (NCCPE, 2010) • Civic Engagement (Campus Engage 2010) • Academic citizens (MacFarlane, 2007) • Community engagement (Carnegie Foundation 2013) • Engaged University/Institution (Watson et al, 2011) • Third Mission (Inman and Schultz, 2012) .

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