During the first three months of the year, the call for the Uniservitate 2024 Award was held and registration for applications in the USA-Canada hub continues until 3rd May. The award is a global recognition of the best solidarity service-learning experiences in Catholic Higher Education and is endowed with a sum of 84,000 euros that will be distributed in prizes and special mentions in each of the seven regions that make up Uniservitate. The winners will be known after June 2024. The awards will be presented during the V Uniservitate Global Symposium, to be held in November in Rome, which will be attended by representatives of the award-winning projects as part of the prize.
All Catholic Higher Education Institutions, both university and non-university, that have developed or are developing SL projects and/or programs from January 2021 onwards are eligible to participate.
The nominated experiences will be analyzed in two instances by SL-qualified evaluators selected by those responsible for each Uniservitate Regional Hub. The evaluation will be supervised by the CLAYSS team, and by the coordination of the Uniservitate Programme. The winners in each region will be determined by a Regional Jury of experts.
For the first edition of the Uniservitate Award, in 2022, nearly three hundred projects developed by two hundred educational institutions worldwide were presented.
Projects, practices, courses or institutional programmes of solidarity service with the community, actively led by students, and intentionally articulated with academic content and research programmes, are eligible for these awards.
In addition to recognizing and making visible Catholic education institutions that best integrate students’ academic learning with solidarity service to the community, the Uniservitate Award seeks to find and highlight experiences that combine science and faith, academic excellence and concrete testimony of a socially committed institution.
Each Uniservitate hub will receive applications within the deadline established by region.
For more information contact: award@uniservitate.org