Training

On this page you will find a database of all Campus Engage publications, tools, case studies, and resources to support you, your staff, students, civic and civil society organisations to embed, scale and promote engagement across campuses and local, national and international communities.

What are you looking for?

Campus Engage Working Group members have developed and delivered training across Engaged Research for Impact and Community-based Teaching and Learning to hundreds of staff across the higher educations sector in Ireland and abroad.

If you would like to avail of future training opportunities, please add your details to the following datab: Engaged Research for Impact List; or the Community-based Teaching and Learning List. We will contact you via email when training is made available.

 

Training

Engaged Research and Innovation for Societal Impact Digital Badge Course

Society & Higher Education – Working Together to Address Societal Challenges.

By participating in this six-week online course, researchers will learn:

  • How to facilitate Engaged Research for Societal Impact capacity-building workshops;
  • How to choose appropriate research methods to engage and involve relevant stakeholders across the research life cycle;
  • How to bring research relevant stakeholders together to plan for research impact;
  • How to effectively respond to engagement and impact criteria across EU Horizon Europe and Irish funding agency calls;
  • How to translate and mobilise knowledge for public policy and engage with policymakers;
  • How to undertake research evaluation to demonstrate research impact; and
  • How to better communicate research findings and outcomes to research users.

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The Campus Engage Community-Engaged Learning Digital Badge Course

Educators – accredit students for solving real world problems

By participating in this six-week online course, higher education teaching staff will:

  • Enhance your teaching by providing students with practical experience of applying academic learning in a real-world setting with community-based organisations.
  • Contribute to students learning outcomes across citizenship, team work, effective communication, leadership, empathy and enhance their social capital.
  • Network with community partners to open up new learning and research projects, interdisciplinary funding opportunities, or publications. No prior experience with community organisations is necessary to take this course.
  • Walk away with a plan and tools to develop learning outcomes, assessment techniques, learning agreements, process guides, and case studies of successful projects.
  • Become part of a national Campus Engage network of community engaged teaching and research practitioners.
  • Get recognition of your CEL activities for institutional promotional criteria
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Testimonials

Engaged Research for Impact Workshop

  • “This type of workshop should be compulsory for all researchers especially Principal Investigators.”  – SFI Research Centre staff members
  • “Excellent facilitators. Positive attitude and approachable.”  – TU Dublin, Research staff
  • “All workbooks have quantity and applicable information and are not too long to turn off reader from reading entire document”  – EU Horizon 2020 National Contact Point
  • “Training was very clear, full of examples and lessons learnt from participants.” –  NUIG Galway, Research Staff
  • “Training coordinators are superb.”  – UCC Research staff
  • “I’d say this training is perfect.”  –  SFI Research Centre staff

The Campus Engage Community-based Teaching and Learning Workshop

  • “The variation of case studies provided in this training are very useful”UCD staff member
  • “Thank you for the high-quality introductory guides are great and very useful”Maynooth University Staff member
  • “This training was very informative and interesting – thank you” – Trinity College Dublin Staff member