Phablabs 4.0 – Combining the World of Photonics and Fab Labs

Phablabs 4.0 – Combining the World of Photonics and Fab Labs

Stijn De Mil, Coordinator for Fab Labs in PHABLABS 4.0, will present this project and its' first results during "Vilnius Mini Maker Faire".  PHABLABS 4.0 aims to achieve a lasting, positive impact on the way photonics is integrated into the rapidly expanding ecosystem of European Fab Labs and Makerslabs, resulting in a larger and better skilled photonics workforce with superior innovation capacity in photonics to support the next revolution in digitization.

Combining the forces of top experts from 11 European photonics institutes with the Fab Lab stakeholders, PHABLABS 4.0 will devise and deliver a comprehensive suite of 33 Photonics Workshops, 11 Photonics Challenger projects and Photonics Toolkits to enhance Fab Labs and Makerslab with photonics activities aimed at 3 specific target groups: young minds (10-14y), students (15y-18y) and young professionals and technicians. These activities, developed in PHABLABS 4.0, will be extensively tested in 14 existing Fab Labs with the purpose of rolling them out to the entire growing network of European Fab Labs as a proven model at the end of the project.  They will stimulate hands-on design, fabrication, experiments, and the building of innovative systems with photonics, and in this way nurture the 21^st Century skills of the participants in the PHABLABS 4.0 activities.

This content is taken from Phablabs.eu website.

More information: http://phablabs.eu/combining-world-photonics-and-fab-labs