21 August 2024
“Mapping and assessing diversified university – community partnerships using TEFCE Toolbox – YUFE case study” was the subject of a presentation by Prof. dr. sc. Bojana Ćulum Ilić from the University of Rijeka during the 2nd SEA-EU Conference Higher Education in the Service of Society at the University of Cadiz (April 24-25, 2024). The post-conference paper has just been published.
The paper examines the benefits of the TEFCE Toolbox – a novel European framework for community engagement (CE) in higher education – which has been purposefully designed to progress the CE agenda in a European context. The purpose of the TEFCE Toolbox as an institutional self-reflection framework is to serve as a reference tool for universities, communities, and policymakers to better understand the dimensions of CE in higher education and as a practical tool for universities to determine how well they perform and where they can improve.
The TEFCE Toolbox was successfully applied in YUFE universities with diverse profiles and missions. The process facilitated the recognition of CE achievements and the identification of potential areas for improvement for each of the YUFE universities and laid the groundwork for the development of a CE strategy for the alliance as a whole, says Prof. Bojana Ćulum Ilić, the author of the paper and a member of the YUFE Community and Civic Engagement team.
The findings of the usage of TEFCE Toolbox in mapping engaged practices at four YUFE universities are presented in the paper showcasing the level of community engagement at the University of Rijeka, University of Antwerp, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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