students
We are entering new times and new socio-economic landscapes.
Modern society is complex and needs people who are able to navigate such complexity. Knowmads belong to a new generation; they are curious and creative young people with the ability to lead, start new businesses and add value-thinking to society’s many agendas.
Knowmads is the school that attracts the creative outsider. Knowmads demand much of themselves and life in general. They are entrepreneurial young adults with their hearts in the right place ; individuals who want to make a positive difference in the world.
Learning by doing
One of the overall objectives of Knowmads is to combine theory and practice. The school is best described as a dynamic cultural system based on fundamental and principal idea’s of what it takes to motivate its students to learn, to learn how to learn and to innovate. You want to know what students themselves say about it: check this!
Risk and Reality
In order to attract students of top motivation and with a high level of commitment to their own learning, the 1 year-program is based on the concept of student investment . Because one of the underlying qualities and values behind successful entrepreneurship is to be willing to take risks and consider the underlying business model of all professional activities.
Taking risks by investing financially in one’s own education is an additional factor that will allow students to grow and be trained in a maximum reality setting. Asking potential students to invest in their own education ensures they each do develop the sense of ownership that is always a decisive factor when entrepreneurial ventures are carried out in the ever-changing context of reality outside the classroom.
To emphasize a reality-oriented learning environment the students will work with assignments and projects defined by real clients that reflect real needs and challenges outside the school.
Throughout the one- year-programme the school, together with the students, will explore learning by earning projects as a means to support, not only the school’s business model but also the financial investment of the individual student.
With the World as a Playground Knowmads strive for the ability to navigate turbulent chaos, not only from the safety of their home, but wherever, and whenever. Therefore an important part of the education is to temporarily relocate and try out new things and different cultural contexts . Hence, after 1 year of their education, – , for a period of three months – students have the possibility to go abroad and work on international projects as one and the same team. This part of the education is called International Project Design and can take place in any country and/or continent: Knowmads students decide. and set the destination.
Joining the school.
Knowmads has a comprehensive student applications –program in two phases. Phase 1 consists of entering an application form and send it to us.
Candidates will be invited into Phase 2 of the application process which consists of , a 2-day- application workshop in The Netherlands. The essential aim of the workshop is to observe how the candidates function and perform within different processes both individually and in groups. The objective is to assess the overall potential of each candidate and compose a team that constitutes a maximum potential learning unit. Traditionally, application workshop, canditate observation and canditate assessment , is facilitated and carried out by former students in collaboration with the school staff.
