On Friday, March 8, the New Production Institute (NPI) from the Helmut Schmidt University launched the new OpenLab Tunis with a soft opening at CETTEX, the Technical Center for the textile industry, in collaboration with GIZ Tunisia, to invite Tunisian Technical Center members to utilize the innovative space for problem-solving in their respective fields.
Improving the competitiveness of the Port of Hamburg depends to a large extent on various innovative factors. The revolutionary technology of 3D printing plays a central role in sustainably strengthening competition. To give interested and enthusiastic actors from the maritime and logistics sectors an insight into the current state of the technology, the Fab City Haus is inviting them to open its doors as part of the Discovery.Hamburg tour.
The Pop-Up Circular Hub (PUCH) exhibition was a temporary hub for circular economy actors in and around Hamburg and took place from November 20 to December 8, 2023. The New Production Institute set up a microfactory to bring local production closer to Hamburg's citizens with individual building workshops.
At the beginning of March 2024, the New Production Institute leads a one-week hackathon to solve industry-relevant problems in the OpenLab Tunis at the CETTEX technical center in Tunis, Tunisia. In the hackathon, the work in an open laboratory for production technologies will be tested in a practical way using various industry-specific cases and the prototyping process will be monitored.
The 'Center for Transnational IP, Media and Technology Law and Policy' at Bucerius Law School is tasked as a project partner in the dtec.bw project 'Fab City - Decentralized Digital Production for Urban Value Creation' with the legal examination of the Fab City and Open Lab infrastructure.
Locally produced. Globally connected. The Fab City project aims to establish resilient and sustainable cities by pursuing an integrative approach. This approach includes the sharing of knowledge within a global network and the systematic characterization of infrastructure technologies for local production.
Tunis, November, 2023, Participants of Open Source Hardware Building Workshops at CETTEX and at CETIBA learned how to build CNC machines and Laser Cutters.
On 28th November 2023 the project partners from the research project "Incubation sites: Self-replicating, open production spaces as innovation incubators in Tunisia" (PISWI) visited and assessed the current status of the OpenLab at the neotex 4.0 center at Pôle de Compétitivité de Monastir EL Fejja (mfcpole) in Monastir, Tunisia.
Circular Economy in the heart of our city. From November 20 to December 7, 2023, the former Karstadt Sport building (now Jupiter Campus) at Mönckebergstraße 2-4 will provide information, events and contacts on a wide range of topics relating to the circular economy.
Exhibition at EMO-Hannover 2023 on the possibilities of local, circular production through an open microfactory. With open source hardware machines and data-based operation in the form of digital product data and automatic measurement of electrical energy consumption, for example, statements can be made about energy consumption per machine use.