As a student in a work-study master's programme in communication, I completed two years of internships at Ucoopia, where I experienced the organisation's identity change from the inside. Between…
Bastien Lejeune
Services for Higher Education Faculty
Universities and colleges are ideal places for learning about citizenship. As an inter-university NGO, Ucoopia supports teachers in integrating social, environmental, political, and cultural issues into their courses through innovative teaching approaches.
Our goal: to educate conscious, critical, and committed citizens and future professionals who are capable of integrating these issues into their professional lives and society, whether they become scientists, doctors, architects, engineers, or any other profession.
To design and implement our interventions, we draw on our own expertise as well as that of the Uni4Coop consortium, whether technical, methodological, educational, or organizational. Some of these areas form the pillars of our work: agroecology, knowledge management, multi-stakeholder coordination, project methodology, etc.
Our global citizenship and solidarity education (ECMS) offering:
- Occasional contributions from professionals in the field and the non-profit sector, from Belgium or other geographical areas, to break down barriers between different areas of knowledge.
- Support in organizing thematic activities related to global issues
- Support for the integration of citizenship issues into specific courses and disciplines
- Co-creating new training courses related to global issues
- The provision of educational tools that address specific issues of global citizenship (ecological transition, food sovereignty, debt, intercultural encounters, migration, etc.).
- Service learning or learning through community service
- Participation in consultation forums with education professionals
Our offerings related to action research, internships, and theses:
- Contributing to the development of action research projects in the countries where we operate
- Support for dissertations in Belgium and in the countries where we operate
- Internships in Belgium and in the various countries where we operate
- Preparing students for international mobility and debriefing them upon their return
Are you a professor or lecturer interested in our offer?
Please feel free to contact us, whether out of curiosity or for an initial discussion, to find out more about our projects, explore opportunities for collaboration with Ucoopia, or share a project idea.
Contact
For civic education, internships, and theses, please contact Claire Wiliquet.
For action research and collaboration with one of our countries of intervention, please contact Christophe Goossens.
Our testimonials
As a final-year Master's student in Population and Development Sciences at the ULB, I undertook this internship in order to gain experience directly related to my studies and to discover both the…
Anouk TINEZ
As an agricultural engineer and Master's student in project management at Senghor University in Alexandria, I chose to do a professional discovery internship at ULB-Coopération in order to better…
Floriane AHOUANMENOU
