PHABLABS 4.0 (DFM.AD005.168)
Thematic area
Physical sciences and technologies of matter
Project area
Fotonica: dai processi fisici ai componenti e sistemi e relative applicazioni (DFM.AD005)Structure responsible for the research project
Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies (IFN)
Project manager
FABIO CHIARELLO
Phone number: 06415221
Email: fabio.chiarello@cnr.it
Abstract
PHABLABS 4.0 aims to integrate photonics in a durable way into the rapidly expanding ecosystem of European Fab Labs and Makerslabs, resulting in a larger and better skilled photonics workforce with superior innovation capacity to achieve a lasting, positive impact on the next revolution in digitization. Combining the forces of top experts from 13 European photonics institutes and STEM-oriented organizations with the Fab Lab stakeholders, PHABLABS 4.0 will devise and deliver a comprehensive suite of 33 Photonics Workshops, 11 Photonics Challenger projects and Photonics Toolkits to enhance Fab Labs and Makerslab with photonics activities aimed at 3 specific target groups: young minds (age 10-14), students (age 15-18) and young professionals and technicians (age 18+). These activities will be extensively tested in 14 existing Fab Labs with the purpose of rolling them out to the entire growing network of European Fab Labs as a proven model at the end of the project. They will stimulate hands-on design, fabrication, experiments, and the building of innovative systems with photonics, and in this way nurture the 21st Century skills of the participants.
Goals
The PHABLABS 4.0 project will harness the power of the growing innovation ecosystem of the Fab Labs
and equip it with sufficient material to really engage, excite and educate youngsters, students, technicians and young
professionals alike in the skills of working and innovating with light. The ultimate impact of PHABLABS 4.0 will be
seen in the emergence of a much larger and better trained workforce with 21st Century skills capable of translating the
potential of photonics as a key enabling technology into tangible products for the benefit of society.
Start date of activity
01/12/2016
Keywords
lighting, lasers, imaging
Last update: 04/08/2025