The USRN Staff Development Workshop 2023 was hosted by VU Amsterdam from 24 to 26 September. Themed “Cultivating University Communities with a Broader Mind”, the biennial event of the University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) attracted 36 participants worldwide, including 10 USRN member institutions: Ateneo de Manila University, Rhodes University, Sichuan University, Simon Fraser University, The

The USRN is pleased to announce that the Proceedings the International USR Summit 2022 are now available for public access. The Summit, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University Social Responsibility Network (USRN), was held from 16 to 18 November 2022. The event brought together more than 140 speakers and over 640

From 21 July to 6 August 2023, three students from USRN member universities, including Ateneo de Manila University, Beijing Normal University and the University of Pretoria, participated in an international Service-Learning programme organised by the Service-Learning and Leadership Office of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Rwanda, Africa. The student participants engaged in the Rwanda

The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s call to action on the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing humanity and the natural world. The quality and scale of The University of Manchester’s impact towards the SDGs has been among the top ten globally in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings in 2022. They play a

(Presented by Prof. Andrew Furco, Professor and Associate Department Chair for the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, Director of the International Center for Research on Community Engagement, University of Minnesota/ Chaired by Dr Grace Ngai, Head of the Service-Learning and Leadership Office, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) As more higher education institutions across

(Presented by Dr Eban Goodstein, Director, Centre for Environmental Policy, Bard College; Dr Jason Ho, Senior Service Learning Consultant, Centre for Innovative Service Learning, Hong Kong Baptist University; Ms Carla Panyella, Project Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development Goals, University of Los Andes/ Moderated by: Dr Eban Goodstein, Director, Centre for Environmental Policy, Bard College) Moving

Internationalisation and global learning are important learning outcomes in higher education, and an increasing amount of resources are poured into learning programs that facilitate global learning, such as student exchange or study tours. Service-learning is a well-researched pedagogy that is known to be effective at nurturing students’ civic learning. Considering that many service-learning projects require

Digital media have increased the resources available to universities to develop and implement innovative university social responsibility (USR) projects using hybrid approaches of engagement. This webinar will focus on the USR projects developed by three different Faculties at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in order to continue with their USR projects, despite the constraints