#M4inclusion:

Makerspaces for Inclusion

Year: 2018-2020

Territory: Europe

Links: https:/m4inclusion.com/ | https://twitter.com/hashtag/m4inclusion

Through this international cooperation, a series of educational tools around the theme of the digital Do-It-Yourself are produced and tested, aimed at young people with fewer opportunities.

Concrete project reports will help achieve the following objectives:

– Develop team spirit, self-confidence, entrepreneurship of young people with fewer opportunities touched by partner organizations in their respective countries

– Develop the technical, artistic and digital skills of the target audience

– Fight against the digital exclusion of young people with fewer opportunities

– Spark debate about new technologies

– Arouse young people’s interest in careers and / or studies in the fields of digital manufacturing, mathematics, engineering, design, architecture

– Arouse the interest of young people for the communities of makers and digital DIY movements

– Improve the employability of young people with fewer opportunities

– Sensitize organizations active in the youth field to new working methods centered around digital DIY.

Makerspaces4Inclusion is a strategic partnership project, funded by the European Union’s Erasmus + programme from September 2018 to August 2020  (project code: 2018-1-BE05-KA205-002425). 

Five organizations participate:

Digijeunes, Maker Convent – Trànsit Projectes (Barcelona), Nod Makerspace (Bucharest), HorizonLab (Naples). The project is coordinated by Timelab (Ghent).