Ross Lab School for Educational Innovation has proactively sought to share its resources with public schools, both nationally and internationally. The Ross School serves as an example to inspire others to align in addressing the challenges of a rapidly changing increasingly globalized world. In partnership with the City of Stockholm, the School has developed a joint venture with Tensta Gymnasium, a Swedish school with a high proportion of immigrant and refugee students. This pilot effort, started in 2002, reflects the emerging conception of a set of globally distributed, networked and fundamentally local efforts, each embedded in an extensive context. For example, each will have a university partner and a corporate or industry partner. Each will be deeply connected to its policy environment — for example, 
a school authority or an educational ministry. And each will be nested within a set of local expectations for the radical reform of secondary schooling — one aimed at fostering intellectual agility, cultural understanding and tolerance, and individual and community wellness. For all these reasons, each of the local efforts will operate on the assumption that its work is not just to build a good school, but to generate knowledge applicable to other schools within its context and even beyond. The diagram below illustrates the synergism that has been generated in the context of the Tensta/Ross partnership now involving the City of Stockholm, its educational administration, RJ Foundation, Electrum Foundation and Kista Science City, as well as three major research universities — KTH, LHS and KMH. Related links:Electrum FoundationElectrum Foundation -- or the Electronics Centre Foundation -- works to extend Swedish expertise in the field of information technology. This is achieved by initiating, supporting and promoting the development of close cooperation between business, research and education.The Electrum Foundation assists and supprts small-size companies with their development by facilitating their contacts with university units. It also works alongside major, well-established companies. The Electrum foundation is a member of Swedepark. 
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