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UB Chair on Service Learning
The UB Chair on Service Learning promotes actions to improve teaching, research and the institutional consolidation of this learning initiative, which aims to improve the community by acting upon real needs through work on academic learning.
The Chair targets the University’s commitment to society and education, and will be active in three main areas: education, research and knowledge transfer.
![Escofet](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/annaescofet.jpg?itok=reBepHPB)
Director
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Presentation
Service learning is a teaching and research project that integrates community service and academic learning, allowing students to train while working on real needs of the community with the objective of improving it.
The UB Chair on Service Learning is focused on the following aspects:
- The need to link academic learning with community service: service learning is not simply the combination of two concepts, but a real and significant integration. Projects must be properly designed to ensure that students learn relevant academic content while contributing to the improvement of their community.
- The importance of involving the community: projects must be co-designed and co-implemented with the community, in order to ensure that they answer its real needs and that students are committed to society.
- The role of the University, which researches and trains to ensure public commitment to addressing the needs of our society: on the one hand, by supporting students and teachers in the design and implementation of quality service learning projects; on the other, by promoting research that enhances these kinds of actions and addresses social challenges.
Team
![Escofet](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/annaescofet.jpg?itok=reBepHPB)
She holds a PhD in Education Science. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, where she is a co-coordinator of the ApS Office.
Editor of the Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio (Iberoamerican Journal of Service Learning).
PI of the recognized research group Entorns i Materials per a l’Aprenentatge.
Member of the ApS teaching innovation group (UB) and PI of the teaching innovation group Innova-THE.
![Morin](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/victoriamorin.jpg?itok=AcTDoLqF)
She is a nurse and an associate professor of the Department of Nursing and Public Health, Mental and Maternal-infant Health of the Faculty of nursing of the University of Barcelona. She is also the coordinator of service learning projects at the Faculty.
Member of the teaching innovation group GIOTEI and the coordinator of the teaching innovation group ApS (UB).
Member of the recognized research group Entorns i Materials per a l’Aprenentatge.
![Buenvaventura](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/21/15/mariaantonia.jpeg?itok=plIfiMXe)
Unit of Training and Research, School of Social Work, Faculty of Education.
She is a member of the Research and Social Work Innovation Group (GRITS).
Coordinator of the Teaching Innovation Group Trans@net.
Her teaching and research fields are social and community development, and service learning.
![Carmona](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/m_carmona.jpg?itok=tZKnXxlz)
He is an associate professor of Community Psychology and a member of the Interaction and Social Change Research Group.
He is the leader of the Community and Sustainability Section of the ICE-IDP.
![esparza](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/mireiaesparza.jpg?itok=S1z8sTHh)
She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education and co-coordinator of the ApS Office. She is a teacher for bachelor’s degrees in teacher training, the master’s degree in Teacher Training in Obligatory Secondary and Upper Secondary School Education and in the bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences, which has a subject taught using a service learning methodology since 2016-2017.
She coordinates the recognized teaching innovation group DsambApS and takes part in several service learning research projects.
![Fernández](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/cecilia-fernandez-lastra.jpg?itok=K6V0whm_)
She is a full professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences.
![Grasa](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/margrasa.jpg?itok=8ZRYj1Z5)
She is an associate professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine, in the section of Nutrition and Metabolism of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona.
![Martinez](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/monicamartinez.jpg?itok=_I4w8h-0)
She is an associate professor of the Department of Material Science and Physical Chemistry. She is the consultant of the teaching innovation line in Service Learning of the Faculty of Chemistry.
She is a member of the research group DIOPMA, and her research is focused on the study of the deterioration of plastics and bioplastics through anaerobic deterioration in order to diminish their impact at the end of their life cycle, and the development of raw materials based on derivatives or residues for low-cost additive manufacturing processes.
![Modamio](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/pilarmodamio.jpg?itok=RL6l0qyI)
She is a full professor assigned to the Unit of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care of the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona.
Member of the Promoter Group of Service Learning of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science, and of the Recognized Teaching Innovation Group in Service Learning and Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care.
PI of the Recognized Research Group in Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy.
Academic coordinator of the official master’s degree in Medication, Health and the Health System and of the lifelong learning master’s degree certificate in Integrated Pharmaceutical Care of the Institute for Lifelong Learning IL3 of the University of Barcelona.
![Poblet](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/cristinapoblet.jpg?itok=PCGg75YQ)
She is an associate professor of the Department of Economy.
Member of two recognized teaching research groups, dalDUB and the Service Learning Group, at the University of Barcelona.
Coordinator of service learning at the Faculty of Economy and Business and co-founder of the Clinica Jurídica d’Economia Social i Familiar de Dret al Dret.
![Playà](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/playaelisabet.jpg?itok=Y43MM6E1)
Associate professor of the University of Barcelona and member of the Research Group of Sedimentary Geology.
![Oms](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/sergioms.jpg?itok=2Le39_7u)
He holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona. He is specialized in philosophy of logic and Language, more specifically in semantic paradoxes and ambiguity, and has also worked in fields like metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and psychology.
Member of the research group Logos and of the Barcelona Institute of Analytical Philosophy (BIAP). He was a visiting researcher at the universities of Sheffield, New York, Complutense of Madrid, at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris) and the University of Turin.
![Porquer](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/joanmiquelporquer.jpg?itok=-VZYWLgB)
He is an associate professor of the Department of Arts and Conservation-Restoration, and of the section of Community and Sustainability of the IDP-ICE of the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the Service Learning Promotor Group of the Faculty of Fine Arts and of the Esbrina Research Group (2021-SGR-00686).
Coordinator of the Drawing specialization of the master’s degree in Teacher Training in Obligatory Secondary and Upper Secondary School Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Recognized Teaching Innovation Group ATESI.
![Puertas](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/puertaseloi150.jpg?itok=GRMjecBG)
He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Barcelona and is a lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Engineering. He is specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Learning.
Member of the research group Visual and Computational Learning, and of the recognized teaching innovation group INDOMAIN. He currently is a teacher of the postgraduate course in Data Science and Big Data of the UB.
![Rius](/catedres/sites/default/files/styles/imatge_200x200/public/content/image/2024/03/19/15/monica-rius.jpeg?itok=JdY1H36W)
She is the director of the ADHUC-Research Centre for Theory, Gender, Sexuality and the chair UNESCO Women, Development and Cultures at UB, where she teaches at the section of Arabic and Islam Studies.
Coordinator the recognized research group Creació i Pensament de les Dones. She is a member of the recognized teaching innovation groups LletraD and ApS(UB).