Universities and civil society organisations together to learn how to involve local communities in social transformation processes.
Target: Third sector practitioners and managers, researchers, university students.
Partners: University of Turin (IT), Synthesis Center for Research and Education (CY), University of Thessaly (GR), Caritas Vienna (AT), Mind2Innovate (GR), University Politehnica of Bucharest (RO), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES).
Funder: EU programme Erasmus + Key action 2 - Partnership for cooperation.
The project HECSOs (Higher Education Institutions and Civil Society Organisations together for community), aims to improve the capacity of universities to cooperate with civil society organisations in a systematic way to develop innovative skills training pathways in different disciplinary contexts. The project identifies new vocational pathways for the community engagement and outlines guidelines and policy recommendations for training in EU countries.