On May 18th 2022, the “Community-Engaged University” conference organized by the SEA-EU alliance was held at the University of Split, which brought together a number of service-learning experts.

The SEA-EU alliance is made out of six universities:

• University of Cádiz (Spain)
• Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest (France)
• University of Kiel (Germany)
• University of Gdańsk (Poland)
• University of Split (Croatia)
• University of Malta (Malta).

The alliance is oriented towards the development of the third mission and the creation of a socially engaged university. Service-learning has been identified as one of the tools which allows universities to listen to the community needs and respond to challenges through the implementation of social challenges in academic curricula.

The conference had over 80 participants and 39 presentations from the following countries: Spain, Poland, France, Germany, Croatia, Malta, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Romania and Canada. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb) presented the SLIDE project to inform the academic community about the relevance of the project, consortium, target groups, project goals and outputs.