Creation of hand picked teams of experts

Fab Connections will source solution providers from the global Fab Lab network. We will align the skills and knowledge of the network to meet your business needs, and will be the project management interface between you and participants to provide a fitting answer to your questions while keeping a keen eye on deadlines, budgets and outcomes.

Setting a challenge for the network

Fab Connections can translate your problem into a program. We will then run on the multi core processor that is the Global Fab Lab network. Would you like to find a solution, or re-think your company in a linear way? Or would you prefer having skilled professionals from all over the earth working in sync to help you realize the potential of your business?
Energise this by setting a challenge with a tight timescale, and incentives for the best solution.

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Extension of your team to improve your business

Fab Connections works for the network, from within the network, and it knows the human resources that can lift your company to the next level. Whether you need temporary brainpower, or you want to strengthen your globally oriented team, we provide people who see the world in a new, connected way.

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Training Workshops / Executive Education

PPrograms that expose business leadership to the transformative journey into digital fabrication and the impact this is having on today’s business models. Fab Connections can help your team understand how the Fab Lab mindset can be applied to your field of work, improve business opportunities, and identify new markets. Your team will develop a deep understanding of the future of fabrication, education, and problem solving. We take you on a transformative journey around the globe that will change the way you see yourself, and your company.

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Fab Lab Connect brings resources to the Fab Lab network.

Fab Lab Connect offers a Fab project funding platform that showcases Fab Lab social & business innovation projects. Fab Lab Connect runs challenges to get projects funded and mentored by sponsors to benefit the individual, the team and the community.

• Track 1 - New idea, concept or design
• Track 2 - Project with a basic working prototype
• Track 3 - Project ready for replication, commercialization, and/or social change
• Track 4 - Fab Lab workshop project (Workshop is defined as a set of hands-on activities in Fab Labs designed for participants to learn and start fabricating. Workshops can provide the best practices for the operation and running of a Fab Lab.

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Fab Lab Connect brings a whole new world of opportunities. Work with sponsors to see your innovation impact your local community and rise to a global scale.

Fab Lab Connect sponsorship will provide:

• Opportunities to support the entrepreneur from an idea to a prototype or to fabrication
• Access to Sponsor employees for mentoring the innovators
• Opportunities to support Fab Lab local capacity: education, job creation, and resolution of local issues with the support of a global Sponsors network

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Take your project to the next level, whether it is a commercial startup or intended for social change.

By joining the Fab Lab Connect platform to showcase your project and participate in challenges, you get a chance to gain funding and mentorship Sponsors.

Imagine a place where all the amazing Fab projects disseminated around the world come together, where you can easily connect and collaborate with people with similar ideas and share the best practices.

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In Fab Labs you can find tools, materials and expertise that can help you to locally produce almost any object you might need. And the Fab Lab Network allows you to design or event invent solutions to current and future needs.

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Maker Camps (Europe, Asia, USA)

The European Maker Camp is a mind-blowing experience on Learning by Making. A race against the clock to learn and fabricate in a diverse program based on technology processes and digital fabrication tools while travelling across Europe, and other parts of the globe, in an intensive six-week journey. Meet local people, eat the local delicacies, and build your dreams with modern tools.

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You are on the front wave of a new, international movement in personal fabrication—and therefore you would be considered an “early adopter. The cheapest and fastest method to get a fab lab is to buy and assemble it yourself. This approach does require that you have some good expertise on hand to help you set up, install, debug and train. There are a few other ways to get a lab, but they are more expensive and require some contractual transactions.

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The Fab Lab Network is composed by thousands of labs around the world, that could help you working on your project idea.

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The Fab Academy is a Digital Fabrication Program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy began as an outreach project from the CBA, and has since spread to Fab Labs around the world. The program provides advanced digital fabrication instruction for students through an unique, hands-on curriculum and access to technological tools and resources.

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