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Newsletter Erasmus Strategic Partnership on Experiential knowledge, winter 2024

A new dimension in personalized inclusive education Welcome to the third newsletter and third year of the Erasmus project! We are delighted to start our new year with a special edition newsletter which comes from the experts by experience who have been involved with...

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Newsletter Erasmus Strategic Partnership on Experiential knowledge, summer 2023

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Webinar eight with Swati Banerjee

In this webinar professor Swati Banerjee from Tata Institute, Mumbai, India will speak about "Participatory Methodologies: A Pedagogy in Knowledge - Justice and People-Centered Social Innovation. Please join the discussion. In this webinar Professor Swati Banerjee...

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Webinar five with Jean-Pierre Wilken

Welcome on Friday the 12/5 15.30 CET. Jean-Pierre Wilkens from Utrecht, The Netherlands will talk about experiential knowledge. You can see the webinar in the YouTube link below!  

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Experience included: Towards an educational design with experience as a source of power and knowledge

At the HU University of applied sciences a group of lecturers, researchers and an educational expert is teaming up to create a educational design where experiential knowledge is included and fits in the current design of the bachelor social work. After getting input...

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Webinar four with Kristel Driessens & Pascal Maes

People in poverty as tandem partners in social work education 15/4 CET, Kristel Driessens & Pascal Maes, Karel de Grote University of Allied Sciences, Anwerp, Belgium Kristel Driesssens and Pascal Maes from Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences, Antwerp,...

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The world’s first Master on Experiential Expertise set to launch in September

Zwolle, April 2023 – Windesheim University of Applied sciences is proud to announce the launch of the world’s first Master on Experiential Expertise, starting in September 2023. The master Experiential Expertise is meant for professionals who wish to take their...

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Working with Experts by Experience

By Nicole den Besten, student Social Work at University of applied science Utrecht. My name is Nicole and I am a student in my final year of Social Work at the Hogeschool Utrecht University of applied sciences (HU). Last year I participated in the “Mend The Gap”...

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Experiential knowledge; knowledge with zest!

Experiential knowledge. How do we recognize it? Can you see it, feel it, taste it? What does it mean? How can you harness it and how do you develop it with students? With a diverse group of social work lecturers, we orientated ourselves to questions like these under...

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Greetings from Northumbria

PowerUs colleague Colin Cameron lets us know that he is getting everything organised for the commencement of the new Mend the Gap: Collaborative Learning with Service Users module at Northumbria this Thursday. Eight students and 10 people from outside the university...

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Strategic Partnership, Experiential knowledge

Experiental Knowledge in Higher Education is a strategic partnership between twelve universities from ten countries in Europe. The three year project focuses on creating educations on experiental knowledge and building strategies for strengthening and individualizing...

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PowerUs Lund i ‘Lien Social’

Vår medverkan på konferensen i Toulouse uppmärksammas i den franska tidskriften 'Lien Social'! Min egen franska är sisådär, men jag vet ändå vad det handlar om. Jag var ju där! Missade du konferensen och kan franska? Då kan du läsa artikeln här! [pdf-embedder...

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Twisted

A song about going to the psychologist, from a service user perspective. Written by Annie Ross and performed by Jonas, Sabina and Catrin from the Swedish PowerUs-team. (Rehearsals for the EASSW-UNAFORIS 2017 European Conference.)

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Revitalization of the Norwegian Network

In December 2015 the PowerUs representatives at LUC invited to a meeting in an attempt to revitalize the Norwegian network. The invitation was sent to all schools of social work in Norway. Representatives from five different colleges/universities took part in the...

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New book: All Our Welfare

PowerUs member Peter Beresford has published a highly relevant, non profit book called “All Our Welfare”. Please order it as it gives important directions for social work and social policy. Read more and order here >>>

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Involved Institution

Located near Stuttgart in the south of Germany, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences offers a bachelor’s degree course (7 semesters, 210 ECTS) as well as a masters’ degree course (3 semesters, 90 ECTS) in social work with an intake of 93 students per semester in...

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Critical reflection

Besides all the positive aspects discussed above, we are aware that the work done on service user involvement in our department is only a starting point: coming back to the qualification framework of social work introduced above, there are a large number of areas for...

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Evaluations of the SUI Seminars and projects

All the activities reported so far were carefully evaluated using different methodological approaches. After two one-year user involvement seminars with a total of 26 students and more than 30 service users in the course of the Esslingen BA Social Work curriculum, our...

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SUI Seminar I – a short description

The conceptualisation of SUI seminar I was done collaboratively between the two lecturers (the authors of this text Marion Laging and Thomas Heidenreich) and the student group of 8 students using input from professionals (a platform called “regional practice”) and...

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Approaching service users for SUI projects and EX-IN

Across Europe, different service user groups have already been included in SUI seminars (e.g. users of mental health services, people who grew up in care). Initially, we had no constraints as to which service users to include in our seminar. Rather, we chose a...

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Service User Involvement seminars and projects

Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....

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Esslingen University of Applied Sciences

Located near Stuttgart in the south of Germany, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences offers a bachelor’s degree course (7 semesters, 210 ECTS) as well as a masters’ degree course (3 semesters, 90 ECTS) in social work with an intake of 93 students per semester in...

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Evaluation of the conducted SUI Seminars and Projects

All the activities reported so far were carefully evaluated using different methodological approaches. After two one-year user involvement seminars with a total of 26 students and more than 30 service users in the course of the Esslingen BA Social Work curriculum, our...

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SUI Project Seminar I

The conceptualisation of SUI seminar I was done collaboratively between the two lecturers (the authors of this text Marion Laging and Thomas Heidenreich) and the student group of 8 students using input from professionals (a platform called “regional practice”) and...

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Service user perspective

Service user perspective in social work education in Germany Generally the degree program of Social Work at a university of applied sciences in Germany enables the students to work in practice. Therefore, encounters with service users are systematically implemented in...

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SUI Project Seminars

Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....

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Description of the Projects

Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....

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Imlpementing SUI into Social Work education

Social work as an academic discipline has – at least compared to other disciplines – a relatively short history in Germany (Kuhlmann 2013). After their early history as colleges without university status, schools of social work underwent a process of professional...

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The “HUSK-project”

An important project in Norway is the so-called HUSK-project. In the years 2006-2011 the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Affairs provided funds to establish a university research program for selected municipal social service offices (The Norwegian...

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Practice development

The Housing First Project: Researchers at the School of Social Work are trying to encourage a change in the Swedish homlessness practice and policy. They want to get away from the system of subsistute housing in favour of real housing. Both people who are presently...

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Collapsed Parenthood

Collapsed Parenthood – Disqualified Mothers, Lost Fathers, and Children’s Rights to Their Parents Read the new report done by and about Swedish parents who have had their children placed in foster care. Read it in english >> Från insidan av ett havererat...

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“Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt” kurs 2014

I uke 9,10, og 11 2014 arrangerer vi på HiL påny emnet “Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt ” Kurset avholdes for 6.gang. Personer med brukererfaring rekruttert gjennom brukerorganisasjonene inviteres til å delta på linje med 3-årsstudenter fra bachelorstudiene. Det deltar...

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Service user involvement in social work education

There are weak traditions for involving users in the social work and social education courses. Traditionally people with user experiences are used in single lectures; otherwise the students mainly meet them as clients in their practice placements. Since 2009 the...

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Lærer mer med brukere som medstudenter

Since 2009 Lillehammer University College has offered a course for the students in bachelor of social work, which includes participation of students with user experience. Follow the link to read the press presentation from the course given in 2012. The...

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Nordisk Forsa-konferanse 4-6.10.2012

Den 9. nordiske Forsa-konferansen gikk av stabelen 4.6.10.2012 i Trondheim. Temaet for konferansen var “Partnership in social work – active collaboration with different actors”. Det var mange interessante presentasjoner på konferansen – powerpointene fra disse vil...

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Rainbow Quality System (RQS)

Rainbow Quality System (RQS) is a quality assurance system for user-driven organizations engaged in rehabilitation for people with drug problems. RQS is build on a partnership between academic and service user organisations. It has been developed in Rainbow Sweden in...

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Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions

Foreword The participation of service users, patients, families and carers has been one of the most significant developments in professional education for health and social work over the past decade. The active contribution of people who are ‘experts by experience’ in...

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Carers as Partners (CaPs) in social work education

Forewords by the partners to this project Carers UK Social workers have the potential to transform carers’ lives, to support and listen to them, and to give them the tools to have a life of their own alongside their caring role. Ensuring that from the start of their...

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