The service learning project in the social work degree was created thanks to an initiative from the Trans@net group. This is a teaching innovation group from the University of Barcelona that was consolidated in 2013/2014 with the aim to generate mutual knowledge within the members of the group and find new and common challenges to improve the students social work education.

This program hopes to implement the service learning methodology from the first year until the fourth in the Social Work degree. Its aim is to strengthen the learning process of the students thorough the contact with reality and their commitment as future social workers.

For the past 6 years, service learning projects have been developed as part of some courses and as cross-curricular projects.

Service learning as part of a course:

• Identities and mirrors: The creation of a community identity from the Mina neighbourhood

A group of students from the course communication and documentation with the omnia point PES la Mina do some workshops focused in a critical analysis of news from the local press in the Mina neighbourhood with their neighbours. Their goal is to  change the stereotypes and the district’s image that media projects about them.

• Katxima: New Horizons

This project has been carried out in the Social Community Work course with the Katxima Association support from 2014 to 2017.This project provides knowledge and skills to the students from the perspective of social awareness and solidarity in community action in developing countries.

• Living in la Mina:

In the course Applied Research in Social Work Intervention (2014-2017), students perform a socio-economic and socio-anthropological analysis and assessment of the impact with the support of the Mina consortium, Barcelona Regional and the platform of neighbourhood organizations.

• Social integration itineraries of unaccompanied immigrant minors in Catalonia

In the course Applied Research in Social Work Intervention (2014-2017), students (with the support of Casal dels Infants del Raval and other organizations that serve the community) get to know the phenomenon of unaccompanied immigrant minors from 2010 to 2015 in Catalonia, analysing the new features: changes in the nationalities (sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc.) on the routes in migratory patterns, and in feminisation of the phenomenon.

• Food safety:

In the course Applied Research in Social Work Intervention (2014-2017), students try to define and understand the place that food has in the life of the population who suffer from food poverty and those effects on their wellbeing.

• Arrels

In the course Social Community Work during 2017, students have taken advantage of the campaign done by the organization and have prepared some workshops with the people who participate in it by preparing some materials. Afterwards, the students participated in public events to spread the materials produced, disseminate and explain the reality of homeless people and the work done by the organization.

• LGTBI

Students have collaborated with ACATHI association in a research about the LGTBI collective.

• Placement I

During 2017 a student has participated in the mediator project from the neighbourhood La Mina Nova in order to promote the coexistence and the social cohesion between the neighbours.

Cross-curricular projects:

• Summer Camp's smiles

Cross curricular project (2011-2017) that works towards the tutoring of the kids who live in Tafraout, Morocco.

• Sharing Ideas, University goes to high school

The students have participated in the cross curricular with some conferences and workshops. 

 Partner: Consorci d'Educació de Barcelona

Partners:Alberg de Sant Joan de Déu, Obra Social Santa Lluïsa de Marillac, Fundació Arrels, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Associació ACATHI, Fundació Enllaç, Associació Katxima pel desenvolupament comunitari, Consorci de la Mina, Barcelona Regional, Plataforma d’entitats de la Mina, PES La Mina, Salesians Sant Jordi, Baskin at University, Baskin Mundet, Facultat d’educació andServei d’Esports de la UB, Casal dels infants, Institut Municipal de SS de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oficina Aps de la Facultat d’educació, Universitat de Barcelona (Departament de Treball Social),