Seed Funding
Report
Download the Campus Engage Seed Funding Report.
Background
The Campus Engage project was established in 2007 through SIF1 funding, to promote and support civic engagement activities in higher education in Ireland. The project partners are NUI Galway (lead partner), DCU, NUI Maynooth, UCD and UL. The general objectives of Campus Engage are to:
- strengthen the relationship between institutions of higher education and the wider society through the sharing of knowledge between academic and civic communities.
- widen students' civic awareness and participation.
- develop a coherent national policy framework for civic engagement in Irish higher education.
Civic engagement collaboration between higher education institutions and the wider community is understood as specific and organised activities intended to benefit both the community and the third-level institution, involving individuals, groups and organisations in the implementation of civic engagement activities. Community can be geographically based, eg. local, regional, global; interest-based, eg. environment; identity-based, eg. young people. Civic engagement activities can include, service / community-based learning, volunteering, community-engaged research, capacity-building and outreach.
Successful Seed Funding Projects
There was a large response to the call for the Campus Engage seed funding for civic engagement activities in higher education. There were 43 applications from 19 institutions, and 17 awards were made. Thank-you to everyone who applied and congratulations to those awarded grants, who are listed below. We look forward to circulating the outcomes of these projects at the end of the year.
Institution | Contact Person(s) | Project Title |
Dublin Institute of Technology | Dr. Ziene Mottiar | Socially entrepreneurial students ‘making a difference' in the community |
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | Carina Ginty | Development of a Service Learning/Community Based Learning Toolkit |
Institute of Technology, Tallaght | Marie Kielty | Get ITT Dublin Volunteering |
Institute of Technology, Tralee | Edel Randles | Community Research to Facilitate the Introduction of a College-Wide Module: The Community Service Initiative |
Limerick Institute of Technology | Anna Murphy | GIVE Mentoring Pilot Project |
National College of Ireland | Michele Ryan | Engaging with Older People: Education for Effective Volunteering |
National University of Ireland, Galway | Dr. Josephine Boland & Dr. Padraig MacNeela | Collaborative and Participatory Research Practice for a Structured PhD module |
Royal College of Surgeons | Dr. Maria Morgan & | On-line Mini Med School |
St. Angela's College, Sligo | Dr. Maria Gallo | Effective Community Boards Outreach |
Trinity College, Dublin | Sarah Quinn | Prison Drama through Peer Education |
University College Dublin and Co. Wexford VEC | John Evoy & Dr. John Baker | ‘Bridging the Gap' between community-based learning and third-level institutions |
University College, Dublin | Dr. Thomas Kador | Engaging with Archaeological Heritage at Glendalough |
University of Limerick | Dr. Bernadette Walsh | Development of an online volunteering portal for UL |
University of Limerick | Sharon Nolan | Broadening Horizons: Students volunteering in an Access initiative |
University of Limerick | Dr. Maura Adshead & Dr. Ronnie Greenwood | Identities, Immigration and Integration - Postgraduate research training in Community Research |
Waterford Institute of Technology | Laura Widger | Promoting Self-Awareness in Online Environments: Bilingual resource creation and delivery to Transition Year students |
Waterford Institute of Technology | Mairead Loughnane | Community-Campus Partnership Development and Capacity-Building |
