Defining Societal Mission for University

The Good Practice Compendium showcases good practice examples of how universities have managed to bring internationalisation closer to their communities. These examples emerged from the ECEM project's Community of Practice, established for institutions new to Service-Learning to collectively explore, design and implement their own activities and community partnerships. It creates a valuable repository of practices that can be adapted and applied in other institutional contexts, provides evidence that internationalisation can generate tangible social benefits, and builds capacity among higher education institutions and practitioners. By situating these good practices within the broader framework, the Compendium underscores the central argument that higher education should not treat internationalisation as an isolated strategy but as an integral component of its societal mission.