European Maker Week is a massive series of workshops and informative courses, conferences and talks about innovative maker projects, project exhibitions and shows, meetings with the business world and local institutions happening in 28 countries with the support of more than 200 local organizers happening from 30 May 2016-5 June 2016.
The launching event will take place in the Committee of the Region.
It will gather main players and historical European figures in the Makers movement, EU political authorities and the curators of the European Makers Week The European Maker Week is an initiative promoted by European Commission and implemented by Maker Faire Rome in collaboration with Startup Europe. For this launching event, the Committee of the Regions is our supporting organisation. European Makers Week goal is to draw European citizens to the “Maker world” and the FabLab, Makerspaces, Hackersapce and the Hardware Startups Environment.
The objectives of European Maker Week are two folds:
We particularly want to reach out to new players (e.g. Schools) who have never organized a maker event before.
Jonathan Austin, Makespace – Micro:bitRodrigo del Prado, BQ ZumJeroen de Boer, FryskLab and FabLab Benelux Foundation