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.
Nine OpenLabs, acting as real laboratories, to explore the possibilities of sustainable urban development and social participation in socio-economic and technological development processes.
The Laboratory of Production Engineering (LaFT) has been supporting research and teaching with its own Open Lab at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since December 2016.
The central goal of the project is to promote bottom-up innovation and interdisciplinary research in Tunisia through open fabrication and open-source hardware laboratories as part of the German government's Africa strategy.