Community, communities
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24 September 2021 | Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
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Maria Lopes Cardoso
Director of Partnerships, Alumni and Employability Alumni in Porto
Alumni
Like a boomerang, the university experience returns with new questions, new knowledge, and renewed hopes.
Focusing on the lifelong bond between a university and its graduates, this text describes alumni as mediators who carry academic values into wider society. The relationship is compared to a “boomerang,” where the university’s values return enriched by the lived experiences of its alumni.
Maria Alexandra d’Araújo
Fellow of the Postdoctoral Programme in Integral Human Development at the Católica Doctoral School – CADOS
Maria Vânia da Silva Nunes
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursin
Ageing
Community participation and social integration among older adults are associated with positive indicators of well-being, including greater life satisfaction and reduced depressive symptoms.
This article addresses demographic ageing as a major social transformation, highlighting how community engagement determines well-being. It proposes a university model that bridges academic research and professional elderly care, preparing younger generations for a society shaped by longevity.
Peter Hanenberg
Vice-Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Francisco Mendes-Palma
Transform4Europe Coordinator. Católica Lisbon School of Business and EconomicsEditorial
Editorial
The contributions to this volume have become an invitation themselves, an invitation to the reader to pick up those who might interest most.
The editors present this volume as an invitation from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa to reflect on the relationship between individual disciplines and the concept of “Community”. Rooted in the T4EU alliance, these diverse perspectives seek to understand the institution’s role within national and global contexts
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Preface
T4EU can be understood as a microcosm of what a global community might become – not a uniform structure, but a constellation of interconnected communities committed to the common good.
This preface explores the university as a dynamic community of knowledge that blurs the lines between organic social bonds and rational organization. It introduces the Transform4Europe (T4EU) alliance as a microcosm of a potential global community—a constellation of interconnected groups committed to the common good.
