At the beginning of August, we once again welcomed a large international group to the Fab Lab: 35 students and professors from Palestine and Tunisia took part in our TRANSFER Tech Entrepreneurship Summer School. Over 14 days, the participants received a comprehensive introduction to our Fab Lab, creative methods and basics for start-ups.
The first week included a crash course on how to use 3D printers, laser cutters and thermoforming machines. They used CAD programs to develop their own projects with a great deal of creativity, including chocolate molds. Our laser cutters were also put to intensive use. The participants used Adobe Illustrator, inkscape and other vector-based graphics programs to create their own designs, which they then cut and engraved from wood and acrylic sheets. The results included earrings, pictures, cell phone holders, bookmarks and decorative caskets.
In addition to the technical workshops in the Fab Lab, we went to the areas of our neighbors, the Entrepreneurship Center and Startpunkt 57, where we tried out soft skills and ideation methods, and completed the theoretical part with pitch training and business model canvas development. Finally, business ideas and corresponding pitch decks were developed and presented.
“It’s always exciting to have international guests here, most of the guests have left their home country for the first time or are in Germany for the first time, so we are naturally proud to make a first impression,” explains Marios Mouratidis. The Transfer Tech Entrepreneurship Summer School not only offered participants the chance to get to know modern manufacturing technologies, but also to strengthen their entrepreneurial skills. The 4th Summer School took place as part of the “TRANSFER” project funded by the European Union and served as the project conclusion.
