The “Success and Failure in inclusion, diversity, and digital empowerment through service-learning” report is an umbrella document summarizing all project outputs and their impact from the SLIDE project for further use in policy-making and research on inclusion, diversity, and digital empowerment through service-learning.

This report describes best practices that have generated interest, were worthwhile intrinsically, and that present problems that have awaken new curiosity, creating a demand for information and are also capable of fostering social development over time. A special emphasis is placed on the description and elaboration of failures for all stakeholders and target groups to understand that it is better to dare to fail in the implementation of service-learning and digital empowerment, than it is to fail to dare.

Beyond the lessons learned, this report serves to establish a culture that emboldens target groups to take risks and leverage their failures for successes. Therefpre, the aim of this report is to encourage target groups for the risk-taking, creativity and continuous adaptation required for innovation. It should create open dialogue about failures and acceptance of them, giving all stakeholders incentives to innovate and fail forward. We hope that the knowledge collected in the report will be further used by service-learning stakeholders to design their own projects as a mean for producing learning from experience.