Makerspaces for All in the Municipality of Tønder

The goal is integrate technology and digitisation into the educational activities of all children and young people in Tønder Municipality both during and after school. Accordingly, the municipality is gathering a number of stakeholders in a coordinated effort to ensure that children and young people can engage in continuous, structured learning processes in its makerspaces, giving priority to local content and real-life problems. 
Daycare centres, private schools, preparatory basic study programmes for young people and youth study programmes will be involved to raise awareness about the project among as many people as possible. After school, children and young people should have the opportunity to play and create in makerspaces facilitated by libraries, schools for young people and voluntary communities.
Stationary makerspaces will be established at all ten primary and lower secondary schools in the municipality, featuring a variety of technologies, materials and work spaces. Basic preparatory study programmes for young people, private schools and ‘Mind Factory by Ecco’ will be the physical environments for the youth study programmes and the municipality’s 10th grade offerings.
The process involves the training of at least one technology literacy counsellor at all municipal primary and lower secondary schools and the training of a number of key employees across grades and subjects.