Community Engaged Learning is experiential education in which students, teachers and external partners work together on societal challenges. Community Engaged Learning integrates societal engagement with academic study and reflection to enrich and enhance the learning experience and contribute to community needs. Utrecht University wants to contribute to solving social issues. That is why UU stimulates CEL: in CEL education, students use academic knowledge and skills in order to make a contribution to the solving of social issues together with external partners. This lets them not only learn about the complexity of social issues, but also about the value of academic knowledge.

The Centre for Global Challenges has developed a toolkit, in collaboration with the programme Community Engaged Learning and the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning. It covers an explanation of what Community Engaged Learning is (for the UU) and good practices, 5 steps to integrate CEL in your teaching, how to develop and maintain relationships with societal partners and how to stimulate students to reflect. You can download the full CEL Toolbox here or the separate pdf’s per subject.

• Community Engaged Learning Toolkit
• Introductory guide
• CEL in 5 steps
• Partnerships with societal partners
• Learning reflection