The Flemish Network for Service-Learning in Higher Education
Goals
The Flemish Network for Service-Learning in Higher Education has three central aims:
Make service-learning visible and recognisable
- Knowledge exchange through network events, seminars, webinars, etc.
- Promote the development and institutionalisation of service-learning in Flemish higher education institutions.
Expand a learning network
- Organize and develop training activities and materials.
- Develop a digital platform as a transfer point to relevant websites and to share materials, resources, good practices, etc.
Support research for quality improvement
- Contribute to efficient exchange of research results from different partner institutions.
- Contribute and support joint research projects.
- Contribute to the development of policy recommendations and initiatives.
The Flemish network organizes networking and training events on service-learning throughout the year.
Interested in joining our activities?
Our network partners
University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA)
UCSIA is committed to promoting the recognition of community engagement and service-learning as an important learning component in Flemish and European education. UCSIA therefore provides the coordination for the Flemish Network for Service-Learning in Higher Education and the European Assocation on Service-Learning in Higher Education (EASLHE).
Website: https://www.ucsia.org/home/themalijnen/onderwijs-en-service-learning/
AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Website: https://www.ap.be/en/opleiding/community-engaged-learning
Artevelde University of Applied Sciences
The Artevelde University of Applied Sciences aims to educate students to become involved global citizens. Global citizens who feel connected to their network and, together with others, commit to a more sustainable, inclusive and socially just world. Artevelde University of Applied Sciences does this by offering authentic, practice-oriented learning contexts with, among other things, socially involved forms of education such as community service learning.
Website: https://www.arteveldehogeschool.be/samenwerken/community-service-learning
Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts
At Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the GROWTH values are central: Committed, Respectful, Open, Empowered and Honest. Our renewed educational vision (as of 2024) states that we design our education in connection with each other: students, employees, society and the professional field. We inspire students to shape their learning process, in which they grow into critical and agile professionals with a strong sense of social responsibility. In doing so, we promote a deep commitment that extends beyond the walls of our institution and that forms the basis for a sustainable contribution to a diverse and changing world.
Website: https://www.erasmushogeschool.be
HoGent University of Applied Sciences and Arts
HOGENT wants to inspire and stimulate people to make a difference in and for society, in their own way. A society in which as many people as possible, driven by personal motivation, commit themselves to activities that benefit society. To this end, HOGENT works together with colleagues, students, and the professional field, across borders. Through service learning, we integrate social projects into our education and teach students to look and climb over walls.
Website: https://www.hogent.be
Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts
KdG stands for offering opportunities, helping to build a strong community, helping to find answers to major global issues and building green prosperity and green well-being together. That is why we focus maximally on learning in authentic, real-life contexts, practice-oriented and across disciplines. Social engagement and service-learning take our learning labs to the next level.
Website: https://www.kdg.be
KU Leuven
With Service-learning, KU Leuven encourages students to put their academic skills at the service of society and thus to take on their social responsibility for, together with, and from individuals and groups in socially vulnerable situations. This contributes to their broad personal development and development of competencies to be conscious and moved in life, and gives them the opportunity to grow into responsible and empathetic citizens, who put values as solidarity, diversity and sustainability into practice.
Website: https://www.kuleuven.be/onderwijs/sl
Odisee University of Applied Sciences
As a co-university of applied sciences, Odisee finds Service Learning a self-evident pedagogy to create a win-win for partners, students and society: working in co-creation towards a common goal. With a strong tradition in projects within the clusters Social-Agogic Work and Education, increasing practices within the clusters Healthcare and Business Administration, and an enthusiasm to start in the cluster (Bio)Technology, Odisee invites partners to work together at and around our locations in Brussels (Brussels, Dilbeek, Schaarbeek) and East Flanders (Aalst, Ghent, Sint-Niklaas).
University College Leuven-Limburg (UCLL)
As a university college, we have an important role to play in the challenges of our time, like climate change, social inequality, loss of biodiversity, economic globalisation, … UCLL University College is committed to motivating every student and every employee to become a sustainability changemaker to help make the transition to a more sustainable and just society a reality. We like to use service-learning for this.
Website: https://www.ucll.be/nl/samenwerken/service-learning
University of Hasselt
Regional involvement and civic engagement have been in the DNA of UHasselt since its foundation. Based on our mission as a civic university, we connect academic content with community engagement that strengthens the Limburg region. We integrate this civic mindset into our programs by striving to offer civic courses and activities, in line with the service-learning pedagogy, to all students. This activities are based on a broad involvement of the institution, lecturers, educational support staff and students, and on sustainable collaboration with external partners.
