Partnership Experiential
Knowledge

Experiential Knowledge in Higher Education is a strategic partnership between twelve universities from ten countries in Europe and their local partners. In a the three year project we focus on creating educations on experiential knowledge and building strategies for strengthening and individualizing professional educations (for social workers and nurses), to strengthen students in their personal and professional development. We aim to promote awareness for using personal experience as a source of knowledge and to make the education more personalized and inclusive.

“Experiential knowledge is essential for education in human professions.”

 

The partnership are working on several projects or work packages until the end of 2024 you can find our newsletters here. 

Aimed project results

• Key principles and a framework for the integration of experiential knowledge and experiential learning in the curricula
• Digital guide with didactical and pedagogical methods
• Training and coaching toolkits for academics and experts by experience
• Website that serves as an open access platform containing the project, like e-learning programs and toolkit
• A sustainable network, which can be continued after the project ends

Partners

The collaboration is a long-term development work together with social colleges in ten countries. We all have experience in integrating and developing methods in different ways, which means that experience-based knowledge is utilized to strengthen students and to make them better equipped to withstand various challenges in social work, to be enduring and creative in a tough and important work. The students are part of the work of developing new methods to strengthen them as social workers and nurses.

• University of Dundee, Scotla
• UC Leuven University, Belgium
• Lund University, Sweden
• Tartu University, Estonia
• Karel De Grote University of Applied Sciences Antwerp, Belgium
• Vilnius University, Lithuania
• HU Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands,
• Hogeschool Windesheim, the Netherlands
• Agder University, Norway
• Catholic University Milan, Italy
• University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
• The Open University, England

Main coordinator

Jean-Pierre Wilken, University of Applied Science Utrecht
jean-pierre.wilken@hu.nl