This course is following up service learning I, respectively is aiming at the concrete implementation of the project concepts which were developed in service learning I. Students are encouraged to bring their own service learning project to life in the Austrian context. Based on the learning outcomes of the prior phases of project development and related stakeholder feedback, students will face the opportunities of a transdisciplinary learning environment and will have to tackle the “real life problems” of interactions between science and society.

• Real-life experience in a transdisciplinary environment
• Students involvement in the regional community
• Critical understanding and holistic perspective on the concept of socio-ecological transformation
• Students not only learn from the experience of the service alone, but by reflection on and creating meaning from the experience
• Individual personality development
• Communication and group skills
• Complexity awareness, problem analysis, critical thinking and cognitive development

The course will offer an improved understanding of socio-ecological transformation in its economic, ecological, social, cultural and political sphere in practice. It offers students the opportunity to understand different perspectives, and barriers of sustainability via an experience-based learning approach/service learning method.

• Group preparation and ability to respond to questions in presentations and following discussions (30%)
• Individual Research Diary (40%)
• Final Group-Based Poster summarizing the SL project (30%)