Project
This project draws together a range of existing strengths and initiatives across UL in order to advance an Irish prototype for a "Civic University". The primary objective is to build a sustainable UL infrastructure for community engagement by developing an internal coordination framework, designed to foster information and knowledge exchange between diverse academic and practitioner expertise in existing UL engaged activities.
The development of an integrated approach to community engagement within the university will make better use of existing resources and enable a more strategic deployment of new resources in order to develop both institutional and community capacities to support university-community collaboration that is reciprocal, beneficial and goal-oriented.
UL Meitheal is a collaboration between the University of Limerick, Limerick City and Council and Limerick City Community Development Partnership. It is supported internationally by the UNESCO Knowledge for Change (K4C) consortium and locally by a variety of partnerships with local community organisations and agencies involved in the CWELL programme. CWELL is a UL diploma programme co-designed with local communities to address identified needs in Community, Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership and Lifeskills (CWELL)
This project is included in, and supported by, the UNESCO sponsored Knowledge for Change (K4C) global initiative. The K4C global consortium provides international bench-marking and peer review for best-practice university/community participatory research and scholarship. The project is subject to annual review by our community partners and the Irish Higher Education Authority.