AUTENS global

Autens has global in it’s DNA. We were forged in global mindsets and international collaboration. We deeply believe that we need to embed global citizenship in our curriculums and foster real global learning experiences for both students and teachers.

We are a profoundly connected company, offering our Scandinavian approaches to human-centered education through an international lens, and bringing global experience back to Scandinavia and to communities anywhere.

We thoroughly enjoy connecting educators and students globally in various formal and informal sharing-is-caring communities.

We are truly thankful for our second-to-none global network that enables all of us to pull off almost anything we can dream of together.

The Future of Education is created by all of us, all across this Globe that we share.

Imagine the Future If We Reimagine Education Together…

cases on AUTENS international

21st skills: Unfolding Creativity - Lene in a Podcast with West Virginia Department of Education

4. November 2020

Creativity can be taught, learned and developed. Hear Lene in conversation with West Virginia Department of Education on 21st. century…

21st skills: Unfolding Collaboration - Lene in Podcast with West Virginia Department of Education

4. November 2020

How can collaboration be understood in a school context and what does it look like in the classroom? Hear Lene…

Association for Learning Environments Europe event!

28. October 2020

Getting ready to air live from Søllested Landsbyordning last week for our Association for Learning Environments Europe event. Head teacher…

A4LE October 21: Learner-led Design Across Europe

18. October 2020

Join professor Stephen Heppell, Terry White and our founder Lene Jensby Lange this Wednesday for the A4LE-Association for Learning Environments…

Students redesigning the classrooms at Søllested School

23. September 2020

At Søllested Village School head teacher Bitten Maria Svendsen and her colleagues have shown both bravery and vision: They have places…

Lene on learning spaces at Spazio Leo T.V. in Modena

13. April 2020

Lene is keynoting online at the upcoming IC3 Spazio Leo event i Modena. Istituto Comprensivo 3 di Modena is a progressive…

Autens at LEGO Idea Conference 2020 - virtual edition

1. April 2020

On the 10th and 11th of March Lene and Thea moved the office from Roskilde to Billund – more specifically…

Autens Social Online - PBL in the jungle and in Denmark

26. March 2020

Friday 13th of March Autens went online with our first mini pop-up conference and Autens Social. It was originally planned…

Spaces Matters - Deeper Learning Conference

9. March 2020

Welcome fellow educators! We are looking at why and how spaces matters – and we are getting creative about the…

Study trip to High Tech High in San Diego

25. November 2019

Peter and Lise Lotte were both in November 2019 on a study trip to the High Tech High schools in…

Documentary on the future of Work and Learning

6. April 2019

Last year Marlen and Finn from The Future of Work Documentary team from Forever Day One caught up with Lene…

Global Schools Alliance at Liger in Cambodia

30. September 2018

At fall in 2018 we met with the leaders of our Global Schools Alliance schools at Liger Leadership academy outside…

Autens named Top 100 Innovator for Learning Space Design Lab

20. November 2017

We were humbled last September to receive international recognition for our work on Learning Space Design Lab, selected for ‘100…

Japans Ministry of Education visits Denmark

12. October 2017

Fascinating week experiencing Danish education through the eyes of a Japanese delegation from the ministry of education NIER. So much…

KEYNOTE ON SCANDINAVIAN EDUCATION FACILITIES AND LEARNING SPACES IN JAPAN

8. January 2017

Of course, we brought our new-found bit of fun, our Virtual Reality glasses, to Japan last week. Great to be…

Bedford-Copenhagen Learning Exchange

20. February 2015

In 2012 Autens was approached by Bedford Borough Council, England, to initiate and support a rolling programme of facilitated study…

Copenhagen - documents & info

8. September 2014

Here you can find useful resources to give you a bit of background on Danish education. Further down you will…

Foundation Phase Team, South East Wales: Visit to Copenhagen & Malmö

30. October 2013

The Foundation Phase Team from South East Wales visits Copenhagen and Malmö in November 3-7. Their role is to support…

Designing new teacher training college

29. March 2013

We have just won the bid for expansion of the teacher college at UCN in Aalborg. Designing 6000 sqm extra…

International Partnership Programme

1. January 2012

Autens works with Human Scale Education, as their Danish partner, to set up partnerships between British and English schools. The…

Specialist Schools & Academies Trust, SSAT: Study Trip 2010

22. June 2010

A group of head teachers from England paid us a visit: It was a study tour of five Gentofte schools…

BSEC: Workshop and presentations in London, February 2010

21. June 2010

March 2010 In collaboration with Grontmij, Lene Jensby Lange gave two talks on recent Danish school design and the learning vision…

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Global Schools’ Alliance is a family of ground-breaking schools that stand out from the crowd and inspire far beyond their local reach.

Autens is humbled to lead the alliance that allows courageous schools to work with peers, learn from each other and share their practices on a global stage: empowering educators to continue developing and creating globally inspired change everywhere to the benefit of all students.

Global School Alliance (GSA) is led by Lene Jensby Lange and our mission for this global school network is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to participate in a good quality education no matter where in the world they live. Our mission is, through collaboration, to raise the standard of education worldwide by providing a network of the most progressive schools for:

Knowledge sharing about how children learn the best and knowledge of the latest methods and ways to form and educate children.
Share the best methods to teach and learn in practice.
Continue to further develop the school members' teachers by visiting each other's schools.
Creating joint projects between schools as transnational is relevant to each other.
Facilitate educational related visits between members to understand and experience diverse cultures and ethics.
Evaluate, adapt and share the emerging technologies of learning.

members of GSA

Autens is an active member of A4LE – an organisation with around 4,500 members from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Middle East, UK & Europe. This network aims to promote health, safety, resilience & sustainable 21st century learning environments that inspire

transformation in education and support a culture of community engagement and strength: fostering local, national, and international dialogue around expertise in designing learning environments.

TOP 100 INNOVATOR

HundrED.org is a non-profit organization founded in Finland in 2015 by a group of people with a passion for education, innovation and authentic change.

In 2017-2018 and 2019-2020, our tool ”Learning Space Design Lab” has been selected as one of 100 inspirational innovations in education and highlighted as innovative, effective & scalable. Our workshop tools provide the framework for a collaborative process of designing and reorganizing learning environments, while also providing space to transform educational practice through a playful and creative approach.

ERASMUS

For many years, we have supported Erasmus projects where teachers and leaders across Europe learn from each other and have the opportunity to see their own practice through the eyes of others. It creates a reflective and perspective-rich learning space and at the same time develops relationships and networks in which Danish schools are lifted into a European context.

We have learned a great deal about Danish schools and day care through outsiders looking at what we experience as given here. The Danish school system from the outside is characterised by freedom and confidence – for the professionals and for children. Then we can think about it – and there is something about it 😉

We have partnered with England, Portugal, Finland, Estonia – and across schools, youth education and universities. Do you want to know more? Then take a look on twitter – or facebook

VEGA

Vega Schools resides in Gurgaon a sillicon Valley area outside New Dehli in India. Vega Believes in active learning with focus on learning spaces for the 21 st century skills and problem based learning.

It is the schools mission, to educate their student to become great citizens, who have competencies that will remain useful for all of their life.

High Tech High

High Tech High is one of the most mentioned schools in the world. High Tech High consists of 13 charter schools in San Diego – elementary schools, middle schools and high schools – which are based on the same methods and philosophy opportunities for everyone.

What is particularly inspiring is their significant results in closing the gap and seriously reducing the importance of social background.

CEO and founder of HTH, Larry Rosenstock is one of our close friends here in Autens. Larry Rosenstock and Jean Kluver have visited Denmark, and we are keen to hear more about their thinking and methods. Lene herself has has the pleasure og being behind the scenes at California schools to understand how they work to create the results they do.

The methods make a different: We have several of their methods in the toolbox adapted to Danish context and are happy to come out and tell about this. We also work closely with a mutual HTH friend David Price, founder of Engaging Learning, change consultant and author of the best-seller book in the school field “Open – How we will live, learn and work in the future“.

Want to see the movie? The schools are portrayed in the much discussed debate-documentary Most Likely To Succeed about school and education in light of the future we face. We would love to put up a show with you. Some exciting hours where the film is a good starting point for debating school in the future with your colleagues, staff, politicians, parents, students and other collaborators.

Contact us at lene@autens.dk