TEFCE policy impact on new EHEA ministerial communique
The 2020 Rome Ministerial communique for the European Higher Education Area has for the first time included community engagement in higher education within its priorities
The project SHEFCE (Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement) will further support universities and policymakers improve community engagement in higher education
The Global University Network for Innovation and the TEFCE Project held the webinar TEFCE Toolbox for Community Engagement in Higher Education – From Theory to Practice
TEFCE webinar: Universities building a better Europe
A webinar on the TEFCE project results was presented at the 2020 European University Association (EUA) Annual Conference webinar series on 22 April 2020; 14.00-15.00 CET
The TEFCE presented on the European Association for International Education Blog
The European Association for International Education has published an article on their blog about the project TEFCE: Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education.
TEFCE project presented at European Quality Assurance Forum 2019
The TEFCE Toolbox was presented to over 50 international experts in quality assurance in higher education at the 2019 European Quality Assurance Forum, which was held in Berlin on 21-23 November 2019.
Successful piloting of TEFCE Toolbox in Dublin, Ireland
Final TEFCE Toolbox piloting took place in the form of thematic focus groups with university-community stakeholders at Technological University Dublin and Dublin City Council (7-8 November 2019).
TEFCE at international ACA conference on the engaged university
TEFCE project promoted by J.M. Vilalta (ACUP/GUNI) by Thomas Farnell (IDE) at conference 'The engaged university: linking the global and the local' held in Bled, Slovenia (17-18 September 2019).
Successful piloting of TEFCE Toolbox in Rijeka, Croatia
The third TEFCE Toolbox piloting at the University of Rijeka and co-hosted by the City of Rijeka (25-26 September 2019) further confirmed its fitness-for-purpose.
TEFCE Expert Team meeting in Zagreb to finalise TEFCE Toolbox
The Expert Team met in Zagreb to confirm the methodology of the TEFCE toolbox and make plans for its piloting at 4 partner universities and their communities.
The first publication within the TEFCE project, "Mapping and Critical Synthesis of Current State-of-the-Art on Community Engagement in Higher Education", has been issued.
Expert Team meeting and consultation with ECIU in Norway
The TEFCE Expert Team held a meeting at the University of Stavanger (Norway) to brainstorm the development of a toolbox for community engagement in higher education.
The TEFCE Expert Team held its first meeting at the Institute for the Development of Education (Croatia) to discuss the results of the mapping of community engagement in higher education.
The TEFCE project manager Thomas Farnell attended the EUA 2018 Annual Conference (entitled 'Engaged and Responsible Universities Shaping Europe” held at the University of Zurich on 3-4 April 2018, due to the close link between the conference theme and the TEFCE project.
How to foster more socially engaged universities in Europe?
The TEFCE project has been launched to address a new priority on the EU’s policy agenda for higher education: the community engagement of universities. The project will develop tools to help universities to better interact with their communities at the local and regional level in order to address pressing social needs.
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