iPRODUCE’s third plenary meeting sets foundations for the project’s upcoming activities
The 20 partners of the iPRODUCE consortium met online this past 4-5 November 2020 for the project's third plenary meeting, second of which fully online. Despite the situation that has affected the world, that has had a negative impact on the possibility of engaging...
German cMDF holds its fifth online workshop
What do agile product design, x-mas and 3D printing have in common? On 28 October 2020, the German cMDF invited SMEs, makers and consumers to an X-Mas special of the online-workshop series “Innovations from the makerspace”. This time, the topic coverd 3D-printing for...
iPRODUCE present at the HABITAT Congress 2020 (Valencia, Spain)
iPRODUCE was present at the HABITAT Congress 2020, which took place on 22 October 2020. The HABITAT Congress is one of the most important meetings about strategies in the home furnishing sector (called “Habitat” in Spanish) in Spain. It is geared to managers and...
Danish cMDF held its fourth workshop and sets foundations for its future mobile unit
On 22 October 2020, the Danish cMDF organised their fourth workshop, and second that focused at working with schools to define how social manufacturing can be included into their teaching curriculum. The workshop focused on the defining the requirements and next steps...
Partner SIEMENS organises a summer school with reference to iPRODUCE
In September 2020, Siemens together with the Technical University Munich organised an 5-days on-site summer school devoted to different aspects of Digital Twins (DT). Due to the COVID-19 situation, only 20 students were admitted to participate in this event. During...
Danish cMDF holds its 1st women makers’ meeting
On 7 October 2020, the Danish cMDF held another workshop activity, this time focusing on expanding the use-case demographic, by holding a women makers’ workshop. With a total of 14 attendees, the Danish cMDF partners presented the iPRODUCE project and discussed...
Save the Date: iPRODUCE online event
Save the Date! -- Register here -- iPRODUCE will be holding its first large event next 26 November 2020 from 09h30 to 12h00 CET (Brussels time). The title of the event is The social manufacturing paradigm: co-creating with manufacturers, maker spaces and consumers....
Successful Danish cMDF co-creation workshop & kick-off event
On 27 August 2020, the Danish cMDF kick-started their activities with a co-creation workshop with local schools followed by the official cMDF kick-off event. In this meeting, the cMDF representatives presented the iPRODUCE project and its goals, while we also heard...
Report on stakeholder requirements for user-driven innovation in the consumer goods products sector
iPRODUCE has recently finalised a in-depth report that aimed to gain insights on the main drivers that boost the acceptance of maker spaces and collaborative production projects. The report also outlines possible barriers and gaps that have been found to limit the...
Discover methods and tools for co-creation and social manufacturing
Based on an extensive literature review and the application of surveys, iPRODUCE (via partner CBS) has exhaustively mapped and assessed methods and tools with a strong application in Design Thinking and co-creation/ co-production projects and approaches, as well as...