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Actioning Engagement conference at DCU in partnership with the HEA and Campus Engage

Actioning Engagement

DCU has hosted an Actioning Engagement conference in partnership with the HEA and Campus Engage to discuss how best to promote community-based learning and research, and student volunteering across the higher education system.

Opened by DCU President Professor Brian MacCraith, the conference included presentations by Muiris O'Connor of the Higher Education Authority and Paul Manners of the Beacons for Public Engagement in the UK as well as representatives from a wide range of University and Institute of Technology civic engagement projects.

Summing up the outcomes of the event, DCU Head of Civic Engagement Professor Ronnie Munck said,

"Campus Engage can now go forward with broad cross-institutional support to build a national platform for civic engagement which will seek to embed the engagement strand of the National Strategy for Higher Education in the daily practice of our higher education system."