Fab Lab Barcelona was the first Fab Lab funded in the European Union in 2007 and is a benchmark in the powerful network of over 2000 Fab Labs in over 100 countries, it is part of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Our mission at Fab Lab Barcelona is to provide access to the tools, knowledge and means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything. We create the opportunity for communities and citizens to improve global and local lives and livelihoods.
We produce world-leading research and innovation based around the digital fabrication laboratory which is located at our heart. Here, we exhibit some of our latest projects dedicated to the application of digital fabrication for positive social impact. This includes European Research projects under the Horizon 2020 program including CENTRINNO, Reflow Project, FoodSHIFT 2030; the European Platform Distributed Design Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union, Makers eXchange a pilot policy program co-funded by the European Union as well as student outputs of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures, co-delivered by Fab Lab Barcelona.

CENTRINNO is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No 869595 and Distributed Design Platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
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Reflow Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820937.

FoodSHIFT 2030 project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 862716.