Winter School – Teachers‘ Training Week on Service Learning and Student Engagement in Vienna
From 17.02-21.02.2020 the Winter School – Teachers‘ Training Week on Service Learning and Student Engagement took place at the University of Vienna. The Winter School offered an intensive training about Service Learning and other methodologies to embrace student engagement at university level. It provided lectures from European experts (Lorraine McIlrath, University of Galway; Barbara Schober, University of Vienna; Magdalena Fellner, Danube University Krems; Ilse Schrittesser, University of Vienna; Katrin Kleemann, University of Potsdam & Katharina Resch, University of Vienna), interactive exercises, the opportunity for an international exchange of knowledge with other educators and the presentation of a workbook of how to do Service Learning. The main target groups were teachers in Higher Education institutions who already work with the Service Learning Approach and other project-based methodologies or who plan to work with it. The Winter School was cofounded by the European Union and was part of the Erasmus+ project ENGAGE Students.
