An important task of the Fab Labs and Makerspaces is STEM education and the strengthening of digital skills for all age groups. They enable contemporary and practical education. Fab City also supports this valuable work in light of the shortage of skilled workers and will continue to expand it in the future together with the network and the community. However, the offer is already diverse and colorful! Below we present a selection of the offers.

Make Your School

Make Your School is an initiative of Wissenschaft im Dialog. Make Your School Hackdays are three-day events for students at their schools in which prototypes for hacks that improve school life are developed and built. For this purpose, trained mentors, working materials and material suitcases are provided. Fab City Hamburg is the network hub Hamburg of Make Your School. If you as a school management want to bring the offer to your school we invite you to fill in this form.

OpenLab Mobile

Our member, the Growth Initiative Süderelbe comes with the OpenLab Mobile free of charge to schools in the metropolitan region and organizes 3D modeling and 3D printing workshops.

The workshops are aimed at students aged 16 and older. A workshop lasts 180 minutes (excl. breaks) and is designed for young people. The truck has 12 workstations. If the group is larger (up to a maximum of 30 people), the workshop can be started in an appropriately sized group room on site and the participants then use the truck one after the other.

Concept (german) Workshop modules (german)

If you are interested in inviting the OpenLab Mobile, please contact Jo Jung.

Jo Jung

Workshop instructor

Fab Support for non-commercial educational institutions

As a pilot project in 2023, we are offering technical assistance to non-commercial educational institutions for broken 3D printers.

Do you have one or more 3D printers in your school or educational institution?

That’s already a first step, but often the use doesn’t work out because different circumstances prevent you from using it.

The device is defective
You have no spare parts
The results are not satisfactory

Fab City Hamburg wants to assist you in these cases with advice and support.

Our offer for you:

Narrowing down the cause together with our team. If required, we will send you a test kit. This can often be used to quickly identify the causes of poor results. If a repair is necessary, we will organize the transport and provide you with a replacement device. If you do not come from an educational institution and find this offer worth supporting, please contact us. We regularly organize volunteer repair and maintenance events. If you have unused 3D printers in your company or organization and would like to donate them to non-commercial educational institutions, please contact us.

Just write a mail to hardwaresupport@fabcity.hamburg

MiSHN

Fab City Hamburg is a supporter of the Makerspaces in Hamburger Schulen Netzwerks (MiSHN). We offer assistance in setting up Fab Labs at Hamburg schools or Maker Events.

Codeweek

Some of our members offered and continue to offer workshops as part of Codeweek.

In 2023:

Here’s a look back at offerings from previous years

Attraktor e.V.

Come solder - assemble a flashing light from small components

Fabulous St. Pauli

Programming animations workshop
Code 3D models for 3D printing
Programming animations and projecting them onto house walls
Digital craftsmanship - building computer-controlled furniture Cutting your own designs, constructions and inventions with the laser
Interaction design with eTextiles and smart textiles
Introduction to version management with git
Programming photo filters and generating images
Pimp your bike
Codeweek workshop for children and young people: computer-controlled knitting
The energy consumption of the Internet

HoFaLab

BlocksCAD - Introduction to design for 3D printing
OpenBikeSensor Workshop
DIY LoFi Sampler
Building a microcontroller thermometer with LED strip display

Fab City Lab Hühnerposten

Learn to solder

Lifelong learning

Fab Labs provide low-threshold, needs-based STEM education. Together with our members and partner organizations, we support youth in career exploration and skills development through Fab Labs.

Since job requirements and personal interests often change as well, we show and support best practices in Fab Labs in the topic area of lifelong learning.

Courses and workshops

The Hamburg Fab Labs offer courses on topics such as 3D modeling, 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics development, computerized knitting and much more.

INTERFACER Massive Build Workshops

As part of the INTERFACER project, a free workshop series on sustainability, open source principles and production techniques started in January 2023. The hands-on workshops are conducted in collaboration with local associations and companies from the Fab City network. For research, they serve to further develop open-source hardware documentation and the use of the “Fab City Operation System”. More information is available on the INTERFACER website. While the program has ended, the documentation for running the workshops can be found here.

FabAcademy, Fabricademy und Master in Design for Distributed Innovation

The worldwide Fab Lab community offers its own educational formats for adults. We will be happy to inform you about the individual formats and the possibility to participate.

Project funding

The Fab City Build Workshops were funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

The INTERFACER Massive Build Workshops were funded by the EU.

The Make Your School Hackdays are funded by Wissenschaft im Dialog.

What else is offered in Hamburg

The city of Hamburg supports the establishment of “Makerhubs” at eleven Hamburg schools.

Contact person for education at Fab City

Axel Sylvester

Managing Director

Fab City Hamburg e.V.

Education