Kaat Somers works at the University Centre Sint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA) as coordinator of the European Association for Service-Learning in Higher Education (EASLHE) and the Flemish Network for Service-Learning in Higher Education. She is engaged in multiple project on community engagement and service-learning in European higher education, and is project manager of the Erasmus+ project ‘Service-Learning as a pedagogy to promote Inclusion, Diversity and Digital Empowerment’ (SLIDE). Kaat holds a teachers degree (University of Antwerp) and a master’s degree in Social Work and Social Policy (KU Leuven).