What is Civic Engagement?
The Community Knowledge Initiative supports and promotes the ethos of civic engagement among students, staff and the wider community.We define civic engagement as:
a mutually beneficial knowledge-based collaboration between the higher education institution, its staff and students, with the wider community, through a range of activities including:
a mutually beneficial knowledge-based collaboration between the higher education institution, its staff and students, with the wider community, through a range of activities including:
- Service Learning / Community Based Learning
- Community-Engaged research
- Volunteering
- Community / Economic regeneration
- Capacity-building
- Outreach programmes
- Community-campus partnerships
- Access / Widening Participation