Programme: Intensive progamme IP Erasmus

Project title: Social Work and Sustainable development

Length of the project: 01.09.2010 - 31.08.2011

Participating Faculties: Faculty of Orthodox Theology

Participating Organisations: KHKempen University College - Geel, Belgium

Katho University College - Kortrijk, Belgium

Artevelde Hogeschool - Ghent, Belgium

Universidad Complutense - Madrid, Spain

Instituto Superior Miguel Torga - Coïmbra, Portugal

Mykolas Romeris University - Vilnius, Lithuania

University of Ljubljana - Ljubljana, Slovenia

University of Applied Sciences - Ludwigsburg, Germany

Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences - Helsinki, Finland

University of Presov - Presov, Slovakia

 

This project will give students as well as teachers the opportunity to exchange and to learn about a relatively new connection between social work and sustainability on a multilateral level and in a mutidiscplinary context.

The IP is organized and implemented according to the principles of sustainability as a third pillar of social work ethics (next to HUman Rights and Social Justtice).

 

The tarhet group is composed of mostly second and also third year students (bachelor degree) social work and related departments like biotechnology, teacher training, nursing and midwifery; also future teachers can be involved.

 

There will be 70 students in total. Participants come from Finland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium.

 

The didactical working methods will be:

- active learning in challenge-oriented mulicultural group-works

- anchored learning or learning by doing combined with e-learning

 

Participating students are granted at least 3 ECTS credits from their home university colleges.

 

The outputs expected are a module for teaching sustainable development competences, a guidebook for students, textbook on sustainability and social work, students' project reports, website, articles in local and international magazines.