DA Open Company
- Denmark,Denmark - national level
- 2019
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When children and young people discover how STEM qualifications become acquired by learning and training at school and become used by companies “in real life”, it makes more sense to learn. This can motivate students and affect their future choice of career. Ultimately, the initiative “Open Company” has the purpose of influencing choice of education and career and thereby enhance the work force with Vocational Education and Tr... show more
When children and young people discover how STEM qualifications become acquired by learning and training at school and become used by companies “in real life”, it makes more sense to learn. This can motivate students and affect their future choice of career. Ultimately, this initiative has the purpose of influencing choice of education and career and thereby enhance the work force with Vocational Education and Training (VET) o... show more
The collaboration between the teacher and the local company is based on a didactical methodology that aims to qualify the visit from the school class so it lives up to the competences and learning outcomes teachers and pupils are evaluating on. The local company does not have pedagogical staff and therefore, there has been a developed generic visit and teaching manuals fitting to the specific company-type in order to qualif... show more
It is funded by the Confederation of Danish employers and the local companies opening their doors for the school classes.
The results and outcomes are still scarce since the programme has not been running for a long time. The first evaluation points towards the systematic availability of company visits and collaborations on a national scale are of great value to the teachers.
It is an inspiring practice, because there is an approach to make collaborations happen with private companies on a systemic level and on a national scale. Experience from the past shows that it can be very difficult for companies and schools no matter how close they are geographically, when it comes to understand how they could work together or use each other in the context of a local educational landscape. The open company i... show more
Visiting a company - mostly focusing on STEM, will often lead to applied science and engineering methods. This will not always be the case since 320 local sites are involved.
The companies have research, development, sales, marketing and production. There are many possibilities for addressing math, science, creative processes, demographic analysis, etc.
The cooperation has a great potential and is yet to be exploited to its full, since the project is still very young.
For each DA Åben Virksomhed course DA has made agreements nationwide with a number of companies within a sector, which have all agreed on participating in the course. They are provided with a short and clear company guide and their contribution to the courses is pre-defined in times of content as well as resources. The companies in general find it attractive to engage in this initiative. It gives them an opportunity to be an ... show more