Context
In today’s fast-evolving world, learning must spark curiosity, cultivate creativity, and prepare learners to navigate a rapidly changing landscape. That’s where FabLabs come in—transforming traditional education into immersive, hands-on, and future-ready experiences.
Short for fabrication laboratories, Fablabs are becoming game-changers in STEAM education. But they’re more than just tech-filled rooms. FabLabs are ecosystems where students, teachers, entrepreneurs, and communities come together to create, prototype, and solve real-world problems.
This meeting, hosted by the ETF Community of Innovative Educators, will spotlight inspiring success stories from FabLabs in France, Georgia, Moldova, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hear directly from inspiring leaders and discover how these spaces are helping educators and policy-makers:
- Embed innovation in national education strategies
- Empower youth and lifelong learners through STEAM
- Strengthen cross-sector partnerships that support sustainable change
Save the date
Whether you're an educator, school leader, policy-maker, or STEAM enthusiast, this is your chance to explore the power of learning-by-doing and see how FabLabs can drive both educational and social transformation.
🗓 24 September | 🕑 14:00 – 15:30 CEST | 🌐 Online
👉 Register HERE to get the zoom link
Agenda
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Time |
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14:00 - 14:05 |
Welcome and news from the STEAM Innovation New Learning Club Fabio Nascimbeni, ETF |
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14.05 – 14.30 |
Opening keynote: Fablabs as tools for systemic innovation Romain Di Vozzo, Founder and Director, FabLab of Paris Saclay University, France |
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14:30 – 15:10 |
Panel discussion: High impact and sustainable FabLabs Moderated by Merab Labadze, content leader of the New Learning Club Giorgi Kezherashvili, Head of Tech Parks, Georgian Innovation & Technology Agency, Georgia (TBC) Victoria Belous, Managing Director, National Center for Digital Innovations in Education - Future Classroom Lab, Moldova Edin Skaljic, Director and founder, Sarajevo FabLab, Bosnia & Herzegovina |
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15:10 – 15:20 |
Open Discussion |
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15:20 - 15:30 |
Conclusions Olena Bekh, ETF |
Why FabLabs Matter
Imagine a space where students don’t just learn about engineering or science—they build, test, fail, and try again. In a FabLab, learning becomes doing, and theory comes alive through project-based, interdisciplinary activities. Learners collaborate on real-world challenges, unlocking critical 21st-century skills like:
- Problem-solving
- Collaboration
- Digital literacy
- Design thinking
The New Learning Club on “Innovative STEAM education”of the ETF Community of Innovative Educators is a group of educators, managers and experts from different countries who work on a theme related to STEAM as a learning innovation for a defined period of time. Within the Clubs, participants share their practices and discuss how to improve their teaching approaches learning from each other.
Find out more: New Learning Club on “Innovative STEAM education”
Explore the tool collectively developed by the Club:
- Low-tech, High-impact - STEAM Club output (in English)
- Low-tech, High-impact - STEAM Club output (in Georgian)
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