Karolien: "Novaplus pays a lot of attention to STEM at school. During the STEM lab, pupils learn, for example, to investigate socio-economic and scientific problems, ask critical questions and look for solutions from a STEM perspective. Learning from and with each other is central there."
"Yet teachers felt the need to make a connection with the world outside the school walls. After all, how do you know that the issues pupils are working on actually are societally relevant? And how do you know that the solutions pupils bring in are also actionable? Those questions remained a blind spot. With the COSMOS project, the school hopes to open the door to the outside world and start structural partnerships with social players in the neighbourhood."