Service Learning (SL) or Aprenentatge Servei (ApS)

Service Learning is an educational method whereby students are trained through participation in a project aimed at solving a real need in a community and thereby improving people’s living conditions or the quality of the environment.

1. Service Learning is:

• A social responsibility of the university
• An educational proposal

2. A project must be designed

• In which learning is related to:
• The academic curriculum
• The development of personal skills
• A community service

3. Involving:

• The identification of a need
• A plan to resolve it
• A thinking process

4. Essential ingredients:

• A social need
• An organisation
• A subject (all or part)

Download the Service Learning brochure here (in Catalan)