An international
ecosystem
approach

Scaling and strengthening existing networks

mAkE builds on active networks of hardware-focused Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and makerspaces in Africa and Europe, and also forges increased linkages between African and European networks. Through these activities, mAkE seeks to scale the benefits received, on both continents, by the innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups who collaborate at DIHs/makerspaces.

 

 

 

Find machines
in makerspaces
around the world

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Meet the largest network of DIHs and makerspaces in the world

The wider networks of mAkE project members combined include hundreds of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and makerspaces around the world.

Africa Makerspace Network

Africa Makerspace Network

The African Makerspace Network is a community of African Makerspaces comprising researchers, innovators, using tools within a structured space for skills and knowledge sharing, community problem solving towards attaining a sustainable development in Africa.
AfricaOSH

AfricaOSH

AfricaOSH is a community of makers, makerspaces, digital innovation hubs, etc. from Africa and around the world who seek to promote African innovation through open hardware principles.
Distributed Design

Distributed Design

Europe-wide programming for design and maker communities. Engaged as an interested community for dissemination of project results.
GIG - Global Innovation Gathering

GIG - Global Innovation Gathering

GIG contributes to creating and using open, inclusive and sustainable technologies and meaningful connections between innovators, positively impacting the policies and frameworks for grassroots innovation.
Fab City Global Initiative

Fab City Global Initiative

Community of practice that takes the ideals of the Fab Lab and scales them to the contexts of the city. Engaged for knowledge exchange and dissemination results.
Forum for Digital Manufacturing of Nepal

Forum for Digital Manufacturing of Nepal

A unique, formal national network of small companies in a developing country context that supports the digital manufacturing industry. It exemplifies not only a successful model of association, but also the benefits of collective action.
Internet of Production Alliance

Internet of Production Alliance

Europe-wide programming for design and maker communities. Engaged as an interested community for dissemination of project results.
Make.Works

Make.Works

It connects small to medium fabrication enterprises to like-minded local actors as well as new market opportunities. mAkE will go beyond the current limited European geographic scope of Make Works
Manufacturing Change

Manufacturing Change

A think-and-do tank working to make manufacturing more circular, local, and flexible. It discovers, develops, and shares open knowledge on how to make this new system work.
Makernet.global

Makernet.global

Europe-wide programming for design and maker communities. Engaged as an interested community for dissemination of project results.
MakerNet.org

MakerNet.org

A start-up infrastructure for the contracting of makers and designers. mAkE develops the state-of-the-art system with direct development of the innovation into a one-to-many distributed contracting system for the very first time
Makernet.work

Makernet.work

It connects small to medium fabrication enterprises to like-minded local actors as well as new market opportunities. mAkE will go beyond the current limited European geographic scope of Make Works.
Open Bioeconomy Lab

Open Bioeconomy Lab

A multifaceted international research group that develops open source tools for biotechnology. The project contributes to case studies and concepts around the potential role of open approaches to intellectual property in the bioeconomy.
WikiFactory

WikiFactory

A collaborative product design and development online platform, regularly used to document and share hardware designs. mAkE creates maps of manufacturing capabilities to provide ways to distribute contracts for local production across Europe and Africa.
Welder.app

Welder.app

A file sharing and version management solution that supports features and provides 'back-end' to sites hosting products/projects for particular communities. mAkEl takes this vital infrastructure and combines it with maps of manufacturing capabilities, then provides ways to distribute contracts for local production across Europe and Africa