Third Regional Service-Learning Week in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to be held on March 17-21, 2020 in the hotel Vienna House Easy Bratislava. It is organized by CLAYSS and CEE Service-Learning Network and is the annual meeting where students and teachers from all types of educational institutions, researchers, officials and leaders of social organizations meet and exchange experiences and knowledge, listen to leading specialists and build networks for common work to promote Service-Learning as a pedagogical proposal.
Within the activities of the Week, the Third European Conference on Service-learning in Higher Education “What does it mean to be(come) an Engaged University?” will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 17-19, 2020. The Conference is organized by Matej Bel University together with the SLIHE project partners and European Association on Service-Learning in Higher Education.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We are seeking presentations that will share and/or advance the study and practice of service-learning and community engagement in higher education. More info: http://www.slihe.eu

Student Solidarity Day was celebrated in Argentina

In 2007, the Federal Education Council of Argentina has included October 8 in the school calendar as "Student Solidarity Day", in recognition of the solidarity work carried out daily by thousands of Argentine students, and in memory of the nine students and the teacher of the ECOS School of the City of Buenos Aires who died when they were traveling back from a solidarity trip with a rural school in the Chaco, on October 8, 2006. Annually, the date is commemorated by educational institutions throughout the country, and several provinces carry out special activities during that day.
This year, CLAYSS was able to participate in the 4th Provincial Meeting of Solidarity Schools organized in the province of Mendoza. The day was held at the La Colonia Sports Center, in the Department of Junín, and gathered more than 650 students and teachers from all over the province.

CLAYSS in Chile

On October 9 and 10, a service-learning course was held at the Mariápolis Center in Cunaco (O'Higgins, Chile) for 40 directors and teachers from all over Chile, organized together with CLAYSS and REASE.
Throughout the two intense days, interventions were presented by Beatriz Isola (Focolares, Centro Mariápolis), Patricia Dintrans (REASE), Elena Aros (Hogar de Cristo), Paula Luengo Kanakri (COES, Catholic University of Chile) and Nieves Tapia (CLAYSS). Eugenia Cerna Hinojosa, a teacher at Colegio Concepción, and Esteban Mena Saldívar, National Coordinator of Training in Solidarity at Marist schools in Chile, also shared their experiences of service-learning.
The course, evaluated and certified by CLAYSS, made it possible to recover experiences made in Chilean schools since 2001, and to open a new space for dialogue between REASE, composed by mainly by Universities, and school institutions that begin to implement their first service-learning projects.

VII National Service-Learning Seminar of the Chilean Network

REASE, the Chilean National Service-Learning Network, organized its VII National Seminar on October 10-11. On this occasion the Seminar was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, which this year celebrates the first 10 years of its institutional service-learning practices.
During the Seminar, numerous panels, workshops and conferences were held that allowed for a rich dialogue among the 270 teachers, authorities and students present. Among them, a dynamic panel allowed the exchange between Roser Batlle, from the Spanish Service-Learning Network, Nieves Tapia from CLAYSS and the participants. More images of the meeting can be seen on the REASE Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/reasechile/

12th Service-Learning Meeting in Pamplona

The Spanish Service-Learning Network will meet at its traditional annual meeting on December 13th, during which a new edition of the Service-Learning Prize will be awarded.
This year, the Meeting will be held with the support of Pamplona City Council, which will host a "Service-Learning Week" from 9 to 13 December, during which there will be an exhibition of posters of projects carried out in the Autonomous Community, a meeting of Navarra's public and private universities, an inventory of 100 good practices around the Objectives of Sustainable Development will be presented, and an exchange of experiences between local teachers and students will be developed.
Nieves Tapia, director of CLAYSS, has been invited to speak at the meeting of Universities, to offer an open lecture, and to speak at the XII Meeting. More information coming soon at https://aprendizajeservicio.net/

NYLC 31st Annual National Service-Learning Conference

Unmask your potential, NYLC's 31st Annual National Service-Learning Conference is scheduled for April 16-18, 2020, in New Orleans, LA. The conference will bring together more than 400 youth and adults from across the United States and around the world for three days of learning, inspiration and connection. This intergenerational event creates a unique atmosphere, where young people bring energy and passion to debates on education and social policy. For more information, visit: www.nylc.org/page/conference