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Cultori dell’Incontro, Journal Online, Issue 7. This journal compiles the conclusions and papers presented at the International Conference of Scholas Chairs in 2024. The papers presented address education as a driver of personal and social transformation, from different theoretical, methodological and experiential approaches. In this sense, the university, as a training institution, appears as a key actor in its engagement with the community, in the democratization of opportunities, and in generating innovative responses to a world in constant change.
“Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario: cuidar la casa común desde la educación (superior) integral [Solidarity Service-Learning: Caring for our Common Home through Holistic (Higher) Education]”, by María Rosa Tapia, Andrés Peregalli and Candelaria Ferrara (CLAYSS, Uniservitate), is included in this publication. It focuses on the care for our common home through solidarity service-learning experiences.
In the presentation given by María Rosa Tapia, Andrés Peregalli and Candelaria Ferrara (general coordinator, vice-coordinator and hub coordinator for the Uniservitate programme, respectively), Solidarity Service-Learning is understood as a pedagogical approach that enables the integration of a holistic education with the principles of the Global Compact on Education (GCE) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is demonstrated through three winning experiences from the 2024 Uniservitate Award: “Never Drop the Microphone” (Faculty of Sciences, Mwenge Catholic University, Tanzania), which empowered students and the community regarding the effects of climate change; “Green Tree Community Campaign” (Business Studies, University of Kisubi, Uganda), a service-learning campaign that fostered students’ ethical responsibility towards the environment and the community (Bakateyamba Home for the Elderly); and the “San Pedro Valencia Professional Application Project” (ITESO, Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico) to tackle a socio-environmental crisis caused by molasses pollution in the De Hurtado Dam.
As the authors point out, the selected projects show “the contribution of Solidarity Service-Learning to the achievement of an integral education that promotes students’ role as protagonists (through a curricular inclusion) and social transformation (from a Culture of Encounter), uniting head, hands and heart to learn, and learning to serve.” Thus, using case studies as its methodological approach, the Uniservitate team’s work aims to explore and gain an in-depth understanding of a specific phenomenon: SSL projects and their contribution to the care for our common home, carried out by higher education institutions, providing experiences of fraternity and solidarity to live in communion with God, our brothers and sisters, creation and ourselves; transforming the world through a culture of encounter. They are Universities that go forth and have a “periphery-bound” approach.
Link to journal [in Italian]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W8-iN6vbh-C16G61SoTFzK2YB7BQxKuD/view (Free access)
Reflexión en proyectos A+S. Cuadernillo A+S Nro. 2 [Reflection in Service-Learning Projects. SL Booklet No. 2]. The Universidad Central de Chile has published a guide to promote reflection in Service-Learning projects. Developed by the university’s Community Engagement Department, the publication provides guidance on how to ensure that reflection is included in every stage of service-learning projects and helps reinforce students’ ethical, critical and professional development. Enrique Ochoa, executive director of CLAYSS, and our founder and director, Nieves Tapia, contributed their insights and expertise to this guide. You can download it for free here [in Spanish]: https://noticias.ucentral.cl/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Cuadernillo-AS-2_Version-Final-Junio-2026.pdf
Free-Download Resources on the CLAYSS Website
Designed for those working in education who want to add value to their initiatives, conducting research on the results of projects implemented worldwide, or those wanting to know how to implement a solidarity service-learning project in their institution for their community and students. Handbooks, case studies and research papers are available in different languages here: 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:
Spanish: https://www.uniservitate.org/es/publicaciones/
English: https://www.uniservitate.org/publications/
Uniservitate Repository Featuring More Than 1,020 Free Open-Access Items!
Theoretical and practical resources on solidarity service-learning and its spiritual dimension in higher education, from a multicultural perspective. Users have free access to download different resources, including texts, images and videos: https://repository.uniservitate.org/es/
