TEFCE Toolbox: An Institutional Self-Reflection Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education

Thomas Farnell, Paul Benneworth, Bojana Ćulum Ilić, Marco Seeber, Ninoslav Šćukanec Schmidt

As the main result of the TEFCE project, the TEFCE Toolbox is an institutional self-reflection framework that supports universities to improve how they address societal needs through partnerships with their external communities.

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Assessing the Feasibility of Developing a Framework for Community Engagement in European Higher Education

Thomas Farnell, Anete Veidemane, Don Westerheijden

The publication examines how community engagement might become a central part of the higher education policy landscape in Europe in the next decade, proposing various policy options and policy recommendations, and how the TEFCE Toolbox could play a role in this process.

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Building and Piloting the TEFCE Toolbox for Community Engagement in Higher Education

Thomas Farnell, Bojana Ćulum Ilić, Davide Dusi, Emma O’Brien, Ninoslav Šćukanec Schmidt, Anete Veidemane, Don Westerheijden

This publication describes how the TEFCE Toolbox was developed, explains its methodology and presents the results of its piloting, which involved 180 experts and practitioners from eight EU Member States.

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TEFCE Toolbox: An Institutional Self-Reflection Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education

Thomas Farnell, Paul Benneworth, Bojana Ćulum Ilić, Marco Seeber, Ninoslav Šćukanec Schmidt

As the main result of the TEFCE project, the TEFCE Toolbox is an institutional self-reflection framework that supports universities to improve how they address societal needs through partnerships with their external communities.

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Mapping and Critical Synthesis of Current State-of-the-Art on Community Engagement in Higher Education

Paul Benneworth, Bojana Ćulum, Thomas Farnell, Frans Kaiser, Marco Seeber, Ninoslav Šćukanec, Hans Vossensteyn & Don Westerheijden

This publication defines the concept of community engagement in higher education, maps existing frameworks for measuring community engagement and identifies the needs, gaps and opportunities for a new approach.

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