Patterns+of+campus-community+partnership+and+community-based+research+-++Developing+a+competence-model+for+experience-based+teaching+and+research+as+a+tool+for+enhancing+participation+and+social+innovation+in+society

**Patterns of campus-community partnership and community-based research: Developing** **a competence-model for experience-based teaching and research as a tool for enhancing**  **participation and social innovation in society.** Wolfgang Stark, Professor, Director, Center for Societal Learning and Social Responsibility, University of Duisburg-Essen [wolfgang.stark@uni-due.de] Karsten Altenschmidt, Center for Societal Learning and Social Responsibility, University of Duisburg-Essen [karsten.altenschmidt@uni-due.de]  Joerg Miller, Center for Societal Learning and Social Responsibility, University of Duisburg-Essen [joerg.miller@uni-due.de]

** Keywords: ** Transdisciplinary campus-community partnership, social innovation and language patterns, competence models, Design Thinking, hands-on participatory research

** Track: ** Theoretical or conceptual frameworks to advance research

** Format: ** Interactive workshop on research methodologies

**Date & time:** Friday 10:50-12:00 **Location:** Salon 7

**Summary:** Based on a five-year experience of service-learning and transdisciplinary campus-community partnership processes for social innovation, the authors will discuss a research concept designed to develop competence models for experiential learning. The aim is to develop the competence model as a pattern language for experiential learning and research based upon competencies developed for students, teachers, and community actors. Based on the idea of design patterns and the pattern language developed by Christopher Alexander (1977), our research concept aims to identify, describe, measure and validate patterns and pattern families developed in experiential learning based on campus-community-partnership processes.

In order to develop radical social innovations and to use the potential of transdiciplinary approaches to participatory challenges in society, we use the “Design Thinking” methodology developed by IDEO (Brown 2009). Design Thinking (DT) can be described as a systematic user-centered approach to design innovation processes in product and service development both in business and social fields. DT is an iterative process generating and evaluating social innovations that is based on a three-step approach using (1) an elaborated user-centered research process, (2) an ideating process to foster new solutions to problems identified, and (3) a rapid prototyping to provide quick response.

This model can enhance a culture of campus-community partnership and to develop a new identity of science and research based on societal responsibility, scientific community needs to develop expanded forms of competence models for experiential learning which take into account different learning patterns and interface patterns needed for campus-community partnership. Participating students will experience hands-on participatory research and practice and social responsibility and develop useful social competencies for their future career.

** References ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Alexander, C. (1977). //A Pattern language: Towns, buildings, construction//. USA: [|__Oxford University Press__]. [|_ISBN 978-0-19-501919-3__].

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Bringle, G. R., Phillips, A. M., & Hudson, M. (2004). //The measure of service learning: Research// //scales to assess students experiences//. Washington, DC: The American Psychological Association.

Brown, T. (2009). //Change by design: How design thinking can transform organizations and inspire innovation//. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Schuler, D. (2008). Liberating //voices: A pattern language for communication revolution//. USA: [|__MIT Press__]. [|__ISBN 978-0-262-69366-0__].

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