Makers’eXchange (MAX)

The project

MAX (Makers’ eXchange) project is a pilot policy project, co-funded by the European Union, that aims to define and test policies and actions supporting the mobility and exchanges of experience between the cultural and creative industries, creative hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs and formal and non-formal learning and skills development systems in a cross-sectoral way and embed makers’ mobility schemes for skills development and inclusion into mainstream CCIs support programmes, policies and ecosystems across Europe.

Our Contribution

MAX project is implemented by the European Creative Hubs Network, Fab Lab Barcelona, UPTEC and Makery; a consortium with a strong background, expertise and knowledge of the cultural and creative industries, creative hubs, maker-spaces and fab labs. ECHN is the leading organization of the Consortium and Fab Lab Barcelona leads the project focus on ‘experimentation’, that is exploring the potential of mobility schemes that represent makers and ensure skills development and inclusion.

Objectives

• To conduct a MAPPING and SCOPING of existing and upcoming makers, creative hubs and fab-lab community’ mobility programmes and relevant initiatives; guidance, methods, and tools on embedding mobility schemes and evaluation metrics to collate robust and commonly accepted guidance for interested organizations.
• To develop a set of metrics for MEASURING and EVALUATING the impact of makers’ mobility programmes in value creation, inclusion and skills development.
• To run a European demonstrator of makers mobility scheme including selecting and supporting makers for EXPERIMENTING and PILOTING.
• To integrate makers’ mobility schemes into CCI’s policies and programmes, through ADVOCATING and UPSCALING the impact of the demonstrator and sharing best practices, highlighting their contribution for inclusion and skills development.
• To build capacity and raise awareness of makers’ mobility schemes among diverse stakeholders by COMMUNICATING and PROMOTING the outputs and impact through pan-European networks and targeted promoting activities.

Who is it for?

Makers
The project takes a wide and inclusive approach to identifying makers, focusing on actors who participate in the production of goods or practice of local making and production.

Policy Makers
The project aims to develop policy recommendations by advocating and upscaling to embed makers’ mobility schemes for skills development and inclusion into mainstream CCIs support programmes, policies and ecosystems across Europe.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under grant agreement No. 2015 – 2145 / 001 – 001.