Role and activity
The University of Sapienza, leader of this Work Package, is responsible for the communication and dissemination of the activities and results of the project.
Description of activities
- Develop and share a communications and dissemination strategy
- Disseminate deliverables at each stage of the project, both within and outside the consortium
- Assessment :
a) Create and distribute satisfaction surveys to assess the impact of the project on the students, teachers and civil society organizations involved, then disseminate the results of these surveys.
b) Interview students, teachers and representatives of civil society who participated in the project.
4. Create and share a YouTube channel with service-learning video clips
Responsibilities of the University of Sapienza and other partners in this Work Package
The University of Sapienza is responsible for leading this Work Package and has drafted the Project Communication, Dissemination and Evaluation Plan .
Each partner:
- involves the communication department of your university, notably for the strategy relating to social networks and institutional communication on university websites,
- implements actions for the dissemination of the results of the project (course materials, examples of Service-Learning projects developed by teachers during the training of Work Package 3, dissemination during the first local events of Work package 4 with the presentation of tools and summary documents for visual mapping of data collected on Service-Learning by Work Package 2, etc.).
Project impact measurement on target groups
The target group within the consortium were partners, teachers, students, civil society organizations (CSOs) representatives and beneficiaries of the projects. Outside consortium target groups were universities, teachers, students and (CSOs) representatives and beneficiaries not involved in the project.
– The creation of a communication, dissemination and evaluation plan helped the consortium consolidate the project activities and guide the partners in achieving the project objectives.
– The dissemination of WP deliverables helped entities outside the consortium to follow the project activities, being updated with the results and deliverables. The dissemination of the deliverables and guidebook (click here to read the guidebook), will enable CSO and university communities to re-creating those activities inside and outside the consortium.
More teachers (from the project consortium and outside) are now involved and are creating their own Service-Learning courses.
The overall benefits of WP deliverable dissemination is that it raised awareness on Service-Learning, bringing practical examples and testimonies of its effectiveness.
– The satisfaction surveys enabled SUR to identify the impact of the project: the level of satisfaction, the strengths and the critical points.
– Interviewing students and teachers helped collect a broader range of experiences. Thanks to the open questions, the interviewees were able to express better their opinions and gave longer and more exhaustive replies.
The results were presented during the 6th transnational meeting in Rome and sprung an exchange between partners. It helped partners to reflect on what to maintain in the next projects and what can be improved.
The dissemination of some of the interviews (on YouTube) helped target groups outside the consortium to understand Service-Learning and its application. It also helped the target group within the consortium to understand the different applications of Service-Learning in other universities’ partners.
– Capsule videos include videos on Service-Learning, sharing experiences and presentation of the projects selected for the European Forum in Bucharest.
These videos helped target groups outside the consortium to understand service-learning and its application. It also helped the target group within the consortium to understand the different applications of Service-Learning in other universities.
In order to measure precisely the project impact on target groups, we referred to qualitative and quantitative indicators. Details about the level of achievement of these indicators are provided in the Report on WP6 activities for “Communication, dissemination and impact evaluation” of SL-ICP project (available here).