UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY / SHEFCE PROJECT

SHEFCE Project

The long-term objective of the SHEFCE project (Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement) is to contribute to the increasing community engagement of European universities, in the form of partnerships with local and regional stakeholders to address societal challenges. The specific objective of the project is to build the capacities of universities, policymakers and stakeholders in Europe for mainstreaming community engagement in higher education.

SHEFCE objectives

The SHEFCE project will produce four intellectual outputs (IOs):
‍1) University action-planning for community engagement at 5 partners universities
2) Policy recommendations for system-level support for community engagement in higher education for 5 EU Member States
3) European online platform for community engagement in higher education
4) Piloting a European university-community engagement heatmap

The SHEFCE project is a follow-up to the three-year project entitled TEFCE – Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education.

The project started on 1 September 2020 and will last until 31 August 2023.

More information about the project can be found here.

Founded by the Eramus+ Programme of the European Union

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06/06/2023.
The University of Rijeka as a co-creator of a European platform for community engagement
The European Platform for Social Engagement in Higher Education is a tool that provides support to universities that want to address social needs in cooperation with external stakeholders, including the public, business, and civil society. The platform was created as part of the SHEFCE project (Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement), including the University of Rijeka as one of the partners. The platform enables the research of universities and their community engagement through official university profiles and also provides the possibility of implementin…
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