mAkE
mAkE is a new project focusing on makerspaces as key drivers for local digital innovation in Africa and establishing mutual relationships and sustainable networks with European Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs).
The Challenge
The challenge of mAkE is to strengthen existing networks of makerspaces as key drivers for local digital innovation in Africa and establish mutual and sustainable networks with European DIHs. The goal is to equip African and European hardware DIHs and their members with the relevant skills, infrastructure and regulations in order to support local businesses and start-ups in implementing local digital innovations.
Our Solution
By providing makerspaces, entrepreneurial makers, SME and start-ups with educational resources, access to networks and new open standards and tools, mAkE enables DIHs build equitable businesses, train their members in employment relevant digital skills, offer their machines and services creating new revenue streams and networks of local, smart production, as well as foster cooperation between European and African DIHs and other relevant stakeholders.
Type of Project
Innovation Action for Industrial Leadership in information and communication technologies funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement 101016858.
Project Outputs/Applied Technologies
Communication, Dissemination and Outreach plan (CDO)
Project identity, website and social media
Guidelines for capacity building tools for social innovation
The Project
mAkE is a transdisciplinary project from EU and Africa that will enable Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), specifically makerspaces, to maximize their potential as spaces for digital innovation, skill building, job creation and contact points for global collaboration networks. mAkE will address key issues from financial stability, enabling policies and to skill building and technical capacity development for makerspaces in order for them to become key connectors for local smart production, creating economies of scope and sustainable contributions to the digitization of different sectors and communities in Africa and Europe.
Our Contribution
Leading the communication package of the project, our core objective is to raise awareness of the mAkE project, by developing sustainable dissemination of project outputs and findings by activating global networks and developing a clear project identity. This objective is achieved through the communication, dissemination and outreach (CDO) strategy common to all the partners in the consortium with the aim of maximizing the project impacts.
Who is it for?
The wider networks of mAkE represents the largest network of makerspaces in the world and includes hundreds of makerspaces and grassroot or community DIHs around the world. Target audiences in African and European countries will be the core target group, but also be on a global scale due to the global reach of the consortium member networks. Among the mAkE audience we will have general public, makers, designers and engineers, private corporations and industry, investors and funders, policy makers, scientists and researchers, press, citizens (potential, future members of the DIH community), makerspace, Fab Lab, DIH leaders, schools, scientists and researchers, entrepreneurs, private corporations, industry, local government.
mAkE resources
Discover the projects’ outputs within the mAkE ecosystem, such as the Venture Building Handbook, the Business Models Catalogue, or the Open Makerspace Toolkit. Read here below a summary of the Policy Agenda for makerspaces:
