The 14th International Service-Learning Week will take place from August 22 to 26 in the City of Buenos Aires. The activities will include the 20th International Service-Learning Conference, the IV Service-Learning Research Symposium, the XIX meeting of the REDIBAS, Ibero-American Network of Service-learning, the First Meeting of Service-learning in the arts and visits to Institutions that develop solidarity educational experiences.
You can download the preliminary agenda of the International Week here.

Afforestation project in the Dominican Republic

The El Pinar Liceo in San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic, is developing the "Sembrando Vidas" (Sowing Lives) project, which aims to plant about 200 avocado trees in order to reforest the community, create sources of income and promote respect and conservation of natural resources. Participants of the experience include 51 secondary school students and 3 teachers from the institution, with the support of the municipal council, the Ministry of the Environment, local councils and other community actors. With this project, the students seek to raise awareness of the population that because of their need to grow crops, work the land and at the same time disforest it.
This experience started after a training offered within the framework of the Project "Promotion of citizens' values in the school environment through service-learning". With the objective of developing the capacities at the national, regional and district levels, technicians of the provinces of Azua, San José de Ocoa and Santo Domingo Oeste coordinated by NGO Alliance and the support of the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic offered the training. 

Videoconference for the International Congress of Scholastic Education

April 18 to 22 in Santiago de Chile Coedupia the International Congress of Scholastic Education was held. Almost 200 participants from the five continents, managers and teachers of the Pías Schools of San Jose de Calasanz, gathered to share experiences and challenges, to seek together a path of renewal and to learn together from each other. In this context, the Director of CLAYSS, Nieves Tapia, presented on April 20 "Educating to build the community". The presentation was made through a videoconference, available on YouTube (in Spanish), at: https://youtu.be/r-CnlFOddo4(a partir del minuto 22:17).

Meeting of the REDIBAS, Ibero-American Network of Service-learning

As usual, we will hold our annual Network meeting within the framework of the International Service-Learning Week in August, on Tuesday, August 22, from 3 to 6 pm. (Argentina time). In this meeting, we will have a virtual space for those who cannot participate personally. The meeting is for members of the Network, one participant per Institution.
To register your participation or request virtual participation, please write to: [email protected] 
More information: http://www.clayss.org.ar/redibero.html

Sirve Quisqueya turns 15

On April 21, the " Volunteering Forum: Service-Learning" was held in the Conference Hall Manuel del Cabral, Pedro Mir Library, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, within the framework of the 15th National Volunteer Fair in the Republic Dominican Republic. During the Fair, the experiences of different educational centers were presented, as well as funding opportunities for young people, and the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Sirve Quisqueya, a network of CSOs working to create opportunities for civic solidarity for young Dominicans.
We congratulate our Sirve Quisqueya friends for these 15 years of wonderful work, strengthening education and youth participation in the Dominican Republic!

CLAYSS attending the Talloires World Conference in Latin America

Prof. María Nieves Tapia will be one of the speakers at the Talloires World Conference that will be held for the first time in our region. Hosted by the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, it will be held from June 21 to 23, 2017. The Conference invites Rectors from all universities around the world, as well as authorities, teachers, researchers and university administrators linked to the most multiple forms of university commitment, including extension, RSU and service-learning. 
For more information visit : http://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/tnlc-2017
To complete your registration visithttp://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/blog/2017/01/04/registration-now-open-for-our-2017-global-leaders-conference/
The invitation triptych can be downloaded here:http://www.clayss.org.ar/archivo_descargas/talloires_inv_2017.pdf
To request personalized invitations, please write to [email protected]

• August 23: 4th Service-Learning Researchers Symposium . Buenos Aires, at the Center for Higher University Studies CAEU - OEI Argentina, Paraguay 1583. More information: http://www.clayss.org.ar/JIAS/IV_jias/index.html
  

• August 24 and 25: 20th International Service-Learning Conference. Buenos Aires, in the "San Agustín" Auditorium at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Alicia Moreau de Justo 1300. More information athttp://www.clayss.org.ar/seminario/index.html

• October 2 and 3: 1st Learning Week-Service in Central and Eastern Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
• October 20: I National Service-Learning Day. Montevideo, Uruguay. UCUDAL from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Aula Magna and Sala Bauzá, Av. 8 de Octubre, Montevideo.