Makerspaces as a driver of knowledge

Frederikshavn Municipality wants to provide the prerequisites that will enable all children and young people to lead rewarding lives in childhood and adolescence. The ability to navigate a digital world is a focal point of the municipality’s scholastic vision.
The municipality’s strategy for digital learning and literacy aims to strengthen the technological and digital literacy of children and young people in day care, schools and evening youth schools, as well as after school clubs. These initiatives include the setting up of three makerspaces at three selected schools, and teachers have begun their skills enhancement processes. In 2022, the municipality allocated funds for the establishment of makerspaces at eight more of its sixteen school departments.
The grant will be used to train 48 makerspace drivers, 90 specialist teachers and 100 graduating students as co-drivers to establish the best prerequisites for enabling all children and young people to boost their level of learning in terms of technological literacy.
For the setting up makerspaces as practical, hands-on learning environments, the municipality has established a so-called business playmaker scheme, aimed at creating learning processes for primary school pupils in close collaboration with the business community and in so doing move the learning space out to local businesses.