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Briefly about the School Project
The purpose of the School Project is to inspire young people to take school and education seriously and to motivate them to focus on the many job oppor- tunities and freedoms that continuing education can offer.
Through the School Project, Plesner has established a long-term partnership with selected lower secondary school classes at Nørrebro Park School, where many pupils face both language and social challenges. In August 2019, the three-year partnership with two new 7th grades will start.
Since the beginning in 2011, more than 150 pupils have participated in the School Project and the vast majority
of these have chosen to continue their education.
Claus Brandt Jacobsen, teacher, Nørrebro Park School:
"As class teacher it has been my experience over the years that the School Project role models are people who want to become involved in the lives of young pupils and help them make the right decisions in terms of education and choice of career, even if there are not always any easy solutions.
Through the partnership the pupils are able to put a human dimension to abstract job func- tions. You may have all sorts of ideas of what a metalworker or a lawyer does. But when you visit a company the abstract ideas become more concrete, and the pupils discover that human beings are involved.
The greatest advantage for the pupils is that the meet "real" people. Parents and teachers do not always count in the minds of the pupils but they see the role models as real people from the real world, just as the people we meet when we visit companies."
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