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Resources to keep updated
The Proceedings of the VII Service-Learning Researchers’ Symposium have been published. Compiled by María Alejandra Herrero, Enrique Ochoa, and Agustina Camaño, it is a valuable resource for researchers and specialists in solidarity service-learning. Its access is free on our website and includes the papers presented and approved at the seventh edition held on 20th August at the UBA Faculty of Dentistry, as part of the International Solidarity Service-Learning Week in Buenos Aires. We trust they are a valuable contribution to those who lead SSL initiatives, encouraging theoretical deepening and new research that will enrich future editions.
They are a strategic resource for institutions seeking to give their projects a solid academic and technical foundation.
Access the Proceedings here [in Spanish]: https://www.clayss.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ACTAS_VII_JIAS_2025-1.pdf
New Handbook on Solidarity Service-Learning in Higher Education. Recently published and available in English and Spanish, the handbook Service-Learning in Higher Education. Volume 1 is a new work by María Nieves Tapia, founder and director of CLAYSS, who worked in collaboration with Alba González, Andrés Peregalli and Alejandra Batista.
It provides concrete suggestions for developing and planning projects, key points to analyze experiences already implemented or currently underway, and numerous concrete examples of best practices worldwide.
English version: https://www.uniservitate.org/2025/10/31/solidarity-service-learning-in-higher-education-volume-1/
Spanish version: https://uniservitate.org/resources/07_Manual_Uniservitate_ESP.pdf
Stories from Around the World, co-published by the Latin American Center for Service-Learning (CLAYSS) and the Universidad Católica de La Plata (UCALP). This digital book is a collection of eight short stories written by authors from various countries and languages, and is available for free download from the Uniservitate repository. This anthology celebrates cultural diversity and the power of shared words. You can read it in Spanish and English, and in some cases, in its original language—Dutch, Filipino, Luganda, or Polish. The stories are also available in both written and audio formats. The book, compiled by Isabel Tresca (CLAYSS) and María de los Ángeles Wlasiuk (UCALP), is intended as an educational and cultural resource to promote values like solidarity, community, respect for diversity, and care for our Common Home.
The foreword, written by María Rosa Tapia and Andrés Peregalli, coordinator and vice-coordinator of the Uniservitate Global Network, explains the purpose of this publication: to foster encounters between individuals and institutions that participated in the 21st International Solidarity Service-Learning Week, organized by CLAYSS in August 2024. As they explain, the initiative sought to ensure that the visit to Santa Clara de Asís Centre, the UCALP solidarity service-learning center, did not limit to passive observation, but encouraged a genuine exchange of stories, gestures, and dreams among people from different parts of the world. They also refer to the genesis of the project: an international meeting that convened representatives from universities in 17 countries in La Plata, Argentina. The participants were invited to tell children’s stories in their native language related to fraternity and the values of solidarity service-learning. These stories were then illustrated by professors and students from UCALP and UNLP and read aloud to children and families in the neighbourhood where the Santa Clara de Asís Centre is located, while the undergraduates carried out their service practices concerning health and nutrition. The production process spanned several months, involving the book translation, edition, rights transfer, and audio recording ultimately becoming its current edition.
The stories and authors included are: The Moon Extinguishers of Mechelen, by Marie-An Knops (KU Leuven, Belgium); Lolita’s Tortillas, by Mónica Haydeé Ramos (DePaul University, United States–Mexico); The Tale of Mariang Makiling, by Romina Eloísa Abuan (De La Salle University, Philippines); The Tale of Mr. Rooster, Mr. Cat, Mr. Dog and Mr. Donkey, by Charles Senteza, Bernard Luwerekera and John Baptist Kalama (University of Kisubi, Uganda); The Legend of Ansenuza Sea, by Daniela Gargantini (Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina); The Lublin Billy Goat Teaches Children to Play Together, by Sylwia Maria Gwiazdowska Stanczak and Katarzyna Małgorzata Łogożna Wypych (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Philippines); The Legend of the Waterfall, by the Uniservitate team; and A Group of Friends, by the Universidad Católica de La Plata, Argentina.
Each story has illustrations created by professors and students from both universities, who participated as “solidarity illustrators”. Professors from the Visual Language 3 department at the UNLP School of Arts were Carlos Pinto, Yanina Hualde, Micaela Brest, Lucía Pinto, and Taormina Lisboa; while professors and students from the Editorial Design department of the Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Design from UCALP were Licia Rizzardi, Josefina Ricci, and Florencia Cuadrado. In addition, the stories are available as audio versions, since the English narrations were recorded by Romina Eloísa Abuan, and the Spanish ones by professors from UCALP secondary schools.
Stories from Around the World presents itself as proof of interinstitutional and global networking that brings together education, art, and social engagement.
Download link and further information: https://repository.uniservitate.org/es/resources-repository/relatos-del-mundo/
Free-download Resources on CLAYSS Website
For those working in education who want to add value to their initiatives, research on the results of projects implemented worldwide, or want to know how to implement a solidarity service-learning project in their institution, for their community, and with their students. Handbooks, case studies and research available in different languages: https://www.clayss.org/en/resources/
Uniservitate collection
Mainly focused on Catholic Higher Education, but open to specialists in solidarity service-learning and the general public interested in education and social change. The collection is available on the Uniservitate website:
In Spanish https://www.uniservitate.org/es/publicaciones/
In English https://www.uniservitate.org/publications/
Uniservitate Repository with More than 900 Free-access Items!
Theoretical and practical resources on solidarity service-learning and its spiritual dimension in higher education, from a multicultural perspective. Here you have free access to download different resources —texts, images, and videos: https://repository.uniservitate.org/