The aims
and objectives of the 3-year project are to bring together
engineering students, teachers, the social profit and the profit sector.
This cooperation will develop and build the potential of emerging demands from the social profit sector for better adapted technical solutions. Technology students will be challenged by curricula and learning-by-doing methods to cooperate with the social profit sector and other HEI partners. The teachers will support them to develop innovative technical and tailored solutions for the challenges the social sector is facing today.
In short the Community Service Engineering (CSE) project aims are:
Partners The CSE consortium is a partnership of five higher education institutions Belgium, Portugal, the Nehterlands and Sweden and an NGO striving for a more compelling science communication and a more appealing science education.
Find out more about the CSE partners.
Stakeholders
Associate partners Enterprises, chambers of commerce and local regional bodies, …for each participating country are involved as a link to the market. These associated partners will open up their communication channels. Via these channels students can look for existing technology and translate it for use within the social sector (answer to the formulated needs). Compendia of project results will be presented in the final project stage through the communications channels of the associated partners. Newly developed technology (via the projects) is offered in this way to the market.
Budget and funding by European Commission’s Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program
Duration The project runs for 36 months, from 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2016.
This cooperation will develop and build the potential of emerging demands from the social profit sector for better adapted technical solutions. Technology students will be challenged by curricula and learning-by-doing methods to cooperate with the social profit sector and other HEI partners. The teachers will support them to develop innovative technical and tailored solutions for the challenges the social sector is facing today.
In short the Community Service Engineering (CSE) project aims are:
- to bring better and innovative solutions for the social profit sector
- to link the social profit sector and industry
- to build a curriculum in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment
- to promote geographical and labour market mobility as well as lifelong learning in Europe
- to make the engineering education and job more attractive to young people in general and female students in particular
- to support research and innovation in the social sector
- to create new business opportunities for the social profit sector
- to support the creation of a more inclusive society
- to start a postgraduate joint “Community Service Engineering” degree (30 credit points)
- to facilitate network learning via the online learning framework
Partners The CSE consortium is a partnership of five higher education institutions Belgium, Portugal, the Nehterlands and Sweden and an NGO striving for a more compelling science communication and a more appealing science education.
Find out more about the CSE partners.
Stakeholders
- The partner institutions and their students
- Social profit organisations: both small and large organisations
- Vulnerable groups: elderly, youth at risk, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, people in poverty
- Companies in assistive technologies: CSE partners define assistive technology as any item, piece of equipment, software, product or system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of vulnerable groups in society
- Companies unconscious of the social profit market potential for their products: the partners believe and several cases have demonstrated that businesses often are not aware of the way to enter the social profit market and of the potential their products have within the social profit sector
- Engineering associations
- Employment sector (public and profit)
- Umbrella organisations of both the social profit and the profit sector
- Regional development organisations
- Health services
- Funding programmes
- Bigger companies sensitive for Corporate Social Responsibility
Associate partners Enterprises, chambers of commerce and local regional bodies, …for each participating country are involved as a link to the market. These associated partners will open up their communication channels. Via these channels students can look for existing technology and translate it for use within the social sector (answer to the formulated needs). Compendia of project results will be presented in the final project stage through the communications channels of the associated partners. Newly developed technology (via the projects) is offered in this way to the market.
Budget and funding by European Commission’s Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program
Duration The project runs for 36 months, from 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2016.