Make it Open

Scope

The consortium supported schools, teachers, educators and students of all ages to make synergies between science, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. Itl offered tools for collaboration between formal, non-formal and informal educational providers, enterprise and civil society, and supported schools in becoming agents of community well-being where families are encouraged to become real partners in the learning process. Importantly it worked closely with teachers and school administrators to set their own vision for open schooling, and tailored a model which worked with their context, needs and opportunities.

The Make it Open team brought together pioneers in maker education with three networks of educators covering both formal and non(in)formal science education. The project created open schooling hubs in 10 European countries where more than 150 schools collaborated with enterprises and civil society organisations in order to run activities where children solved challenges in and with the community using tools and approaches from maker education.

Make it Open received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 872106

Resources

Make it Open Schooling toolkit

Communication, dissemination and sustainability plan