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The State University of Management library hosted a roundtable discussion, "Service Learning: Integration into University Project Work," for SUM faculty and guests from other Moscow and regional universities.
Veronika Balandina, head of the project office for the Service-Learning program at GUU, discussed the differences between the program and volunteering:
"Volunteering is a wonderful way to spend your free time, but service-learning is about education, about the opportunity to develop professional competencies by implementing real socially significant projects while still in college. The Service-Learning program aims to develop students' citizenship, patriotism, leadership, civic solidarity, and traditional values by solving a socially significant problem within the framework of the core educational program," emphasized Veronika Balandina.
Pavel Pavlovsky, Vice-Rector of the State University of Management, also addressed the roundtable participants: "Service-learning is an ideal tool that resonates with the motivational characteristics of the current generation of young people. They want to do good. Those who implement service-learning participate in reshaping society toward positive change."
Previously, the State University of Management team took second place among 590 Russian universities in the All-Russian Competition of Best Practices in Organizing Community and Volunteer Activities in the category "Best Practices in Implementing the Service-Learning Program."
The roundtable discussion was organized as part of the second All-Russian Interuniversity Project Festival, "The Project Path: From Idea to Lessons Learned," with the support of the Interregional Educational and Methodological Center for Project-Based Learning, "Project-Based Learning as a Practical Training Technology," based at the State University of Management.
We thank all participants for their lively dialogue, valuable ideas, and commitment to developing the Service-Learning program at Russian universities. We hope this exchange of experiences will provide a solid foundation for new initiatives that will help students not only gain knowledge but also apply it for the benefit of society.
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