Scientists and teachers jointly unlocking knowledge for education

Teaching packages for schools, instruction days for teachers, or masterclasses for pupils. This is how Applied Plant Research gives green education access to research information. Always in close cooperation with green education itself.

Research and researchers have a wealth of knowledge. Knowledge teachers wish to use in education but which is hard to come by. Often they do not know what scientists are precisely doing or they have no direct contact with scientists.

Cooperation with education

Against this background PPO scientists are looking for possibilities to cooperate. They are also developing ways to give education access to scientific knowledge. In doing so they focus on the third and fourth year intermediate vocational training and the first two years of higher vocational education.

The Green Knowledge Cooperation (GKC) plays a central role in all this. GKC is the innovation platform in which education and research organisations and industry are collaborating. And this is where demand from education is meeting supply from research.

Education demands

Collaboration always starts with a question from education. These questions originate directly from teachers, via the GKC, or other national structures such as the Bulb Academy or the Fruit Academy. Scientists are then, together with one or more teachers, developing a product. Examples are a masterclass Diagnostics for students who are following a flower bulb training or a teaching module about fruit quality, trade and logistics….

Knowledge from research does not only reach education via specific products. All relevant reports, articles, messages or blogs written by scientists can be consulted via the website www.groenkennisnet.nl.

This collaboration of scientists and teachers closes the bridge between knowledge and education.