FabEdu: digital fabrication in youth work Erasmus Project

Project Title

FabEdu: digital fabrication in youth work

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

FabEdu is a european cooperation project that aims to bring innovation in the field of youth work. The initiative is lead by Digijeunes, in partnership with Vectorealism (Italy), Fablab Pau (France), the municipality of Alba Iulia (Romania), and Combustible Numérique (France).

OBJECTIVES

Over a period of 18 months the project cosortium produced a set of open educational resources on the topic of digital fabrication. The project’s deliverables are expected to facilitate the implementation of educational digital science workshops across Europe, thus contributing to improving digital literacy among youth, and challenging the digital divide.

RESULTS

We have produced a number of tutorials and physical objects to enable youth workers across Europe to launch their own hands-on workshops on digital fabrication.
Our educational resources rely exclusively on free and open source hardware/software, and are dvided into 3 modules :
– Introductory activites on digital fabrication
– Hands-on activities on 3D modeling, 3D printing, laser cutting, 3D scanning, and traditional DIY
– Tutorials on how to build and use mini diy cnc machines

The complete set of outputs is available on : www.fabeduproject.e, as well as on Instructables.com : just type « Digijeunes » in the search bar

COMMUNICATION

Our communication campaign covered all participating organizations’ countries, thus reacing several hundreds youth practictioners and young people across France, Romania and Italy.
The FabEdu team was notably involved in a number of public events on maker and digital culture such as  the Toulouse Mini Maker Faire, or the Manifattura Milano.
If you’d like to comment on our work or get in touch with the FabEdu team don’t hesitate to contact us at : info@digijeunes.com
You can also gain further insights into our communicatio efforts by searching for #FabEdu on social networks, or by visiting the project’s facebook page :
https://www.facebook.com/fabeduproject/

LASERCUT STACKED EINSTEIN

To get a taste of the educational ressources we’ve developed, you can check out the lasercut stacked object tutorial. This activity is about assembling a 3D item made of cardboard or MDF, to understand how 3D printing works.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Cut-Stacked-Einstein/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47382 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIGIJEUNES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Digital Fabbrichetta srl
• Fablab Pau
• MUNICIPALITY OF ALBA IULIA
• Combustible