The Spanish Government collaborates in the promotion of Service-Learning

• It is an educational method that unites social commitment with the learning of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values • The State Service-Learning Meeting will be held on December 15 in Valladolid • The economic estimate assumed by the Ministry will amount to a maximum of 13,000 euros

August 2, 2023.- The Ministry of Education and Professional Training will collaborate with the Spanish Service-Learning Network, the City of Valladolid and the University of Valladolid in the XVI State Service-Learning Meeting, which will be held in Valladolid on December 15.

The Ministry has signed an agreement to make this collaboration effective in the annual meeting that, in person, will be held in Valladolid and will have a telematic extension, with its live broadcast.

The Ministry is committed to providing the service of interpretation of the sign language; the service of stenotyping with the live broadcast in Valladolid; a website, which collects all the information related to the appointment; the registration to the meeting and in the simultaneous workshops, as well as the registration to the meeting and in the face-to-face web seminars and the automated entry to the place of celebration, with a QR code or bar code, which facilitates and speeds it up for a maximum of 350 attendees present.

In addition, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training will hold the chairmanship of the dialogue table, disseminate and promote participation in the meeting through the means usually used and, in particular, the General Subdirectorate of Territorial Cooperation and Educational Innovation.

The economic estimate of expenditure assumed by the Ministry for the celebration of the meeting will amount to a maximum of 13,000 euros, which will cover the recruitment files needed to carry out these committed actions.

The Convention has been published in the BOE of this Tuesday, August 1: Provision 17711 of BOE No. 182 of 2023

Learning by being useful to the community

Service-learning is an educational method that unites social commitment with the learning of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. It is about learning to be competent by being useful to others, providing a service to the community. Each project combines and articulates the processes for participants to learn by working on real needs of the environment in order to improve it.

Spanish Service-Learning Network

The Spanish Service-Learning Network (REDAPS) is an independent, non-profit association that works to promote service-learning in the field of education, social organizations and the environment in which they are located.

Its objectives include the dissemination and expansion of the Service-Learning methodology in Spain and enhancing collaboration between the territorial groups that articulate REDAPS.

REDAPS annually convenes and awards its state prizes and awards them in a different city each year, in order to make its commitment visible and disseminated. On this occasion, Valladolid has been chosen.