Centers For Social and Civic Involvement

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• STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN CENTERS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

  Centers for Social and Civic Involvement

  
  

  
  

  
  

  In the CURE project, students have an important role in the program.   They are responsible for student activities within the CURE Centers for Social and Civic Involvement that have been established in 9 Israeli and Georgian  institutions.  This section presents the methodology that has been used both in Georgian and in Israel.   In addition in this section we provide some examples of the activities that were implemented in our institutions.  Included we have units and  folders which have pictures and videos so that the visitor to this page can have an idea of the impact and spirit of this part of CURE's program.  

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  • CCCU summary of Centers of Social and Civic Involvement April 17 File

    This document presents a summary of CURE's Centers of Social and Civic Involvement written by the leading HEI of the working package of Quality Plan.   The evaluation and reflections presented in this summary are based on the summary of all of CURE's internal field monitoring that was done by our EU program partners in our Israeli and Georgian institutions and based on observations and interviews.

  • Engaging Students to be active citizens in their community File

    The purpose of this handbook is to describe CURE’s student activities which were implemented through Centers of Social and Civic Involvement that were established as one of the aims of the CURE project.   The establishment of Centers for Social and Civic Involvement became the focal point of all student activities that have linked CURE’s Israeli and Georgian colleges and universities with their communities.  This handbook provides short theoretical explanations that guided the development of the student activities that are presented in the book as well as on this site page.
    

  • Logos Folder

    This folder gives the students the opportunity of using a variety of CURE logos in the materials that they are developing.  Included is the official ERASMUS+ logo which must appear on all items.
    

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• Methodological Approaches

  • Guidelines for Centers of Social and Civic Involvement (3) File

    These guidelines were developed during the second consortium meeting at GACE in Israel that became the foundation for our centers.   

  • Guidelines for developing student activities within the Centers for Social and Civic Involvement File

    This  file provides CURE's guidelines for designing and implement student activities within our centers for social and civic involvement.

  • The world cafe method at Cure Erasmes+ project (1) File

    This presentation provides important methods for collaborative work and being able to have each person's voices heard.  The world cafe method was used in many of our student activities and provided the students with a tool that enabled them to work together, design and implement activities.

  • Community place making METHOD File

    This presentation briefly explains the general method for Community Place-Making which was used by our students both within our institutions and also in the community.
    

  • Communityplace making - Inspiration and methodology for Cure project File

    This presentation explains the activities that promote creating a "community story" .    This includes hearing the different voices of the community.
    

  • Social sustainabilty to civil activism - Cure project 2016-7-converted File

    This powerpoints summaries the first international leadership training that took place in Tbilisi.

  • Georgian use of VLOGS File

    This video clip in the Georgian language presents Georgian student activities and their VLOG activities.  Other VLOGS are located in the video sections as well as in other units in this site page related to our Georgian universities' student activities.

  • Engaging Students to be active citizens in their community CURE May 28 File

    This handbook presents an overview to the activities that were implemented by the Israeli and Georgian students.   

  
• National and Local CURE's Student Plans and Activities

  • International Student Management Workshop- File
  • 1st consortium at Tbilisi - Cure project 2016-7 for summery File

    This presentation shows the results of the first international student leadership workshop in Tbilisi 2016.

  • TEMPLATE for Student Activities File

    This template was designed through the Student leadership workshops so that these leaders could organize the plan of student activities within the centers of social and civic involvement when they returned to their institutions.   

  • Students Civic Activism in Georgian Universities File

    This Report in Georgian is a mapping of Student Civic attitudes and behaviors at CURE's HEIs that was done in order to help develop relevant student activities at the different Georgian CURE's HEIs.

  • Recommendations for Civic Centers in Georgia File

    These recommendations are based on the needs assessment which students did under the direction of the CDI NGO of Georgia and based on local and national meetings held in Georgia.

  • Presentation of Results of Needs analysis for Civic Activism in Georgia File

    This presentation is in English and summarizes part of the results of examining how Georgian Students perceive civic involvement and activism which the students did under the direction of CDI NGO of Georgia.   From the results presented in this study the Georgian student activities which have taken place within CURE's Centers of Civic and Social involvement were designed and implemented.

  • Student Activity Plans IL Folder

    This folder presents the different plans of our student leadership program for the various activities that they are planning at their HEIs.  These plans were designed in several local and national meetings that occurred in 2016-2017.

  • Student Activities draft 2nd consortium meeting File

    This is a working draft developed In March 2017 (Consortium meeting#1) through the student leadership and management workshops which developed a draft of student activities for each HEI in IL and GE.   This draft was then presented at each HEI where CURE's student leaders then "fine-tuned" the activities and plans with other students.
    

  

• Gordon Academic College of Education

  GACE will be placing all of its community and social involvement activities through our required volunteering program and our continuing professional development department under the NEW OFFICIAL Center for Social and Civic Involvement at Gordon College which was launched in January 2018.
  

  • GACE WORK PLAN FOR CENTER's Activities File
  • Sign for GACE Center for Social Involvement File
  • GACE examples of Center's Activities Folder

    This folder provides examples of some of the student activities which took place within GACE's Center for Social and Civic Involvement.

  • GACE Sign over room File
  • GACE Student Activities: Pictures and summaries Folder

    In this folder we have pictures of our student activities and several summaries of the actual events.

  • Hope of Israel Lightbox Gallery
  • Video Clip GACE Community Activity in Haifa File

    This video clip shows the Center of Social and Civic Involvement's students' community activity in the Ziv Neighborhood of Haifa.  The clip is in Hebrew.

  • GACE's Student Activity summary video URL

    This video presents a glimpse into the types of community activities that the students implemented within GACE's Center for Social and Civic Involvement using the Community Placemaking and World Cafe methods which they were trained in.

  • Good Deed Day --Student activity at GACE File

    This poster announces a GOOD DEED DAY at Gordon college that included a charity Baazar, information booths on places to volunteer, and more.

  
• Sakhnin Academic College for Teacher Education

  • SAK Center of Social and Civic Involvement- report 2020 File
  • Sakhnin college worldcafe for social involvement 2020 File
  • SAK Center of Social and Civic Involvement- report 2020 File

    This report summarizes Sakhnin's Center for Social and Civic Involvement including its structure, aims and activities.

  • Sakhnin's Sign for their Center of Social and Civic Involvement File
  • Sakhnin's Sign in Hebrew summarizing CURE File

    This sign presents in Hebrew the CURE project including its main objectives and outcomes, including the Center for Social and CIvic Involvement.

  • SAKHNIN's PLANS FOR THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT File
  • 2019 Social involvement worldcafe File

    This document provides an example of a student activity within the Center for Social and Civic Involvement at Sakhnin Academic College.

  • SAK: Student Activities: Pictures and summaries Folder

    In this folder there is a presentation on the 2019 World Cafe Happening at Sakhnin that describes the process and the outcome of the activity.  In addition there are pictures.    

  • Sakhnin communityplacemaking 2018 File

    This video shows the transformation of an area at Sakhnin College where the students, through community placemaking.

  

• David Yellin Academic College of Education

  • DYC CSCI File

    This document descibes the formal establishment and structure  of the Center for Social and Civic Involvement at David Yellin College where their student activities are being implemented from.

  • DYC WORLD CAFE File
  • Social and civic involvment centers - DYC to stakeholders File

    This document was used to present the Social and Civic Involvement Centers to Key Stakeholders at DYC so that they would understand the CURE program and the activities that are also a part of this program.

  • Social and civic involvment centers - Cure guidelines Tamar Meirovitz Heb (1) File

    This document was presented to key stakeholders and DYC  so that they understand the importance of creating the Center for Social and Civic Involvement at their HEI.   This document has some Hebrew slides.

  • David Yellin College's work plan File
  • DYC Center for Social and Civic Involvement Sign File
  • DYC Sign CURE 1 File
  • DYC sign CURE 2 File
  • Student events updated DYC 2017-2020 File
  • David Yellin Student Leadership activity -Hebrew File

    This presentation is in Hebrew and is being used to present the student activities in David Yellin College for the students, key stakeholders and faculty.  It presents the placemaking method that will be used as a methodology for student activities within their Centers for Social and Civic Involvment

  • Examples of Students activities 2018-2020 DYC File

    This document summaries some of the activities that were implemented at David Yellin College through their Center of Social and Civic Involvement.

  • David Yellin college worldcafe 2019 File
  • DYC:Student Activities: Pictures and summaries Folder
  
• Givat Washington Academic College of Education

  • Sign for the Center of Social and Civic Involvement at GWACE File

    Sign in Hebrew for the Center of Social and Civic Involvement at GWACE

  • GWACE: Student Activities: Pictures and summaries Folder
  • 3 year CURE plan at Givat Washington college File
  • GWACE Student Activities for 2017-18 File

    This power point presentation describes some of the different Community projects that the students implemented through the Center for Social and Civic Involvement.

  • 2019 placemaking at Givat washington college Media collection
  • GWACE Student Activities 2017-2918 some examples File

    This prowerpoint presentation (in Hebrew and in English) describes several community activities that GWACE initiated or became involved in.

  • 2019 students plans for interventions in public space File

    These pictures show the students' community project through the Center for Social and Civic Activity that created a nicer environment for the whole campus community.  The video clips in this sections shows the transformation of these spaces and some of their projects.

  • Student Activities Impact Campus at GWACE File

    This video clip shows how  The students's activity  through GWACE's Center of Social and Community Involvement used the  combined methods of World Cafe and Community placemaking impacting the campus at Givat Washington.

    
    

  • Community Placemaking at GWAC File

    This video shows the impact of the student activity through GWAC's Center for Social and Civic Involvement in creating a place on campus.  This video reflects the great things that can happen through the world café and the method of community placemaking.

  • Impact on Campus of Community Placemaking File

    A video clip which documents the transformation of the Givat Washington Campus through student activities from the Center for Social and Civic Involvement.

  • GWACE Special education faculty - Exibition for children at risk 1 File
  • GWACE Special education faculty - Exibition for children at risk 2 File
  • GWACE Self advocacy course joined with M.R. people File
  

• Ilia State University

  • Needs Analysis study in Georgia for Student Activities (3) File

    This presentation by the ISU student explains in general the Student Activity plan for Georgian CURE institutions

  • ISU student presentation of Results of needs analysis File
  • ISU Students Activities report File

    This two page summary presents some of ISU's student community activities which included helping to organize a small festival in an outlying village, collaborating with other organizations to help build a library in the village which has no library.  While the municipality contributed rooms, ISU students have been helping in fundraising for rennovating the rooms and in collecting books for the library.

  • ISU student activity in Bukitikhe school: forming a civic club File

    The ISU students helped create a Civic Engagement Club of Bukitsikhe Public School in Chokhatauri Municipality. 

  • In this folder there are summaries in Georgian of the action plan, activities and evaluation questionaire of the student activities that were implemented through ISU Center for Social and Civic Involvement in the Bukitsikhe Public School

    • ISU activities in Bukitsikhe Student Club
      • ISU Student Club action plan, pictures and evaluation questionnaire
        • Clubs action Plan.pdf
        • Clubs evaluation Questionaire for Children in Georgian.docx
        • ISU student community activity-Civic Engagement Club Statute in school.pdf

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  • This folder summarizes in English the different activities that occured in the club.

    • Club's activities that were organized by ISU students
      • Green Action,.mp4
      • Social Project Green Action_Greening the environment.doc
      • Social project of the Civic Mind club Hands Washing.docx
      • Social project three Womens day.doc
      • Social Project_Me Volunteer_Raising awareness and civic responsibility of students about volunteering.doc
      • washing hands.mp4

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  • ISU student community activity-Civic Engagement Club Statute in school (2) File
  • Washing Hand activity in Schools File

    This small video clip shows the"washing hands" ISU student activity  in schools as part of the "International Hand-washing Day" that is celebrated all over the world.  This activity has become more relevant give the Covid 19 pandemic and the importance of hand washing in staying healthy.

  • Planting trees in Schools by ISU students File

    this powerpoint presentation shows pictures of the ISU activity of planting trees in a public school.

  
• Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

  • Center for Social and Civic Involvement TSU CURE APPROVED by HEI File

    Establishing the CSCI at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, TSU 
    

  • TSU Center fo Civic Activity guideline draft File
  • TSU summary of all Student activities 2.4 File

    This file lists and briefly describes ALL of the student activities at TSU.  

  • TSU Student activity First meeting File
  • Protocol in GEORGIAN LANGUAGE for approval of CSCI TSU File
  • TSU student activities Folder

    This folder presents some examples of the activities that were implemented by the students at TSU.

  • TSU hotline for Coronavirus File

    This particular activity (hot-line for all citizens relating to the Covid-19 virus) was not "initiated" through our Center for Social Involvement at TSU, it reflects CURE's mission of involvement in the wider society and this program was the initiative of the Faculty of Psychology and Education which was very active in CURE's program at TSU.   
    
  • Engaging Students to be active citizens in their community CURE May 28 File
  

• Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University

  • BSU: Pictures and Summaries of Student Activities Folder
  • BSU Centers for social adn civic involvemetn for website File

    This file summaries in the Table of Acheived results format BUT IN GREATER DETAIL the different activities that were implemented at BSU.

  
• Samtskhe-Javakheti State University

  • SJSU-Official Establishment of CSCI by HEI File

    This document summaries in English the formal establishment of the  Civic Education Involvement Center at SJSU.
  • SJSU- Civic Education Center- Planned Activities-2018-2019 File
  • SJSU's Civic Education Involvement Center Activities Folder

    This folder has a detailed list and summary of the different activities that were implemented by students through their Civic Education Involvement Center.

  • SJSU students and faculty express their views on being an active citzen URL

    This short video clip interviews different students from SJSU and how they perceive the importance of active citizenship.

  

• Kutaisi University

  • Activities planned for CSCI KU File
  • Kutaisi - Sign over room File
  • Kutaisi University Activities Folder

    This folder includes materials such as videos and presentations created for the activities carried out by the Center for Social and Civic Involvement

  • KU Center for Civic and Social Involvement Folder

    This folder has pictures of the Center for Social and Civic involvement, including the new area that was renovated to establish the center.

  • KU student activity in detail File
  • Motivational talk of Dr. Rhonda Sofer to KU students URL

    This 10 minute video clip (in English) is a motivational speech by the coordinator of CURE, Dr. Rhonda Sofer for Kutaisi University students .  In this speech Dr. Sofer shares the philosophy, ideals and values that motivated her to design the CURE project as well as DOIT (TEMPUS IV project that promoted Diversity and Children's Rights in Israel and in Georgia).   She also shares the importance of setting high goals, being willing to try new things and using failure as a stepping stone for future success.   In addition, she expressed the importance of Diversity and Human Rights and each individual's responsibility to the community for promoting these values.   She concludes with some wishes to the students to be leaders who embrace the importance values needed in the 21st century who can lead us to a better world.

  
• Other Videos and pictures from our student leadership workshops, activities and more!

  In this section we have some examples of videos and pictures that have been created by the students during their activities.  The first video below is from CURE'a second consortium meeting in Haifa  and summarizes several key moments including the results of our STUDENT LEADERSHIP training  and the WORLD CAFE that our student leaders organized for the whole consortium.

  
  

  
  

  • Fourth Consortium meeting in Batumi File

    This is a short video clip of CURE's 4th consortium meeting in Batumi that reflects some of the work and events that we experienced.

  • CURE's Center for Social and Civic Involvement Activity at KU File

    This video clip documents a project in sustainability that was implemented by the students through Kutaisi's CSCI.   The project was funded by a grant of the Civic Development Institute and included implementing programs in schools and running debates.   There are explanations combined with pictures of the different phases of the activity within this video

  • video Clip that includes Student Leadership and management program File

    This video is from the second consortium meeting and presents the importance of student activities.

  • Georgian Student reflects on Civic Responsibility and Involvement File

    This video clip in the Georgian language presents one of the CURE student activists reflections on the activities that he was involved on and the overall importance of civic responsibility and involvement for students.