Experiential Learning Workshop

The Experiential Learning Workshop invites colleagues involved in courses, projects or activities incorporating experiential learning, service-learning or international community engagement to reflect critically on their initiatives together with peers and external critical friends.

The workshop aims to create space for constructive feedback, shared learning and critical reflection on how these initiatives can be further strengthened. Through six interactive case discussions, drawing on partnerships and communities in different contexts, participants will exchange perspectives and explore their initiatives through the lenses of student learning, reciprocity, ethical collaboration and mutually beneficial partnerships, intercultural engagement and institutional support.

External critical friends will bring fresh perspectives and constructive feedback to help challenge assumptions, reflect on challenges and good practices, and identify opportunities for further development. The discussions will also explore how experiential learning and international community service-learning (CSL) can be further strengthened and embedded within UAntwerpen and the wider association, while making existing initiatives more visible to colleagues and institutional stakeholders.

Programme

• ​11:00–11:15 Welcome & IntroductionWorkshop objectives, introduction of participants and critical friends, service-learning framework and working method
• 11:15–12:45 Session 1
• 11:15–12:00 Case Study 1 USOS Immersion Brazil – UNICAP & ISTT12:00–12:45 Case Study 2 USOS immersion Suriname - AdeKUS & ISTT
• 12:45–13:30 Lunch
• 13:30–15:00 Session 2
• 13:30–14:15 Case Study 3 Community-Based Monitoring programme Tanzania - IOB14:15–15:00 Case Study 4 USOS Immerssion India – XISS & NLU
• 15:00–15:15 Coffee Break
• 15:15–16:45 Session 3
• 15:15–16:00 Case Study 5 Student Internships, Faculty of Medicine UAntwerp16:00–16:45 Case Study 6 USOS Immerssion Morocco – UMP Oujda & UAntwerp
• 16:45–17:00 Closing Discussion & Wrap-upKey insights, cross-cutting themes, recommendations and next steps

This conference is co-organised with UCSIA and made possible through Global Minds funding from VLIRUOS.