Ongoing & completed projects

Here we summarize our most important ongoing and completed projects at national and international level. However, detailed information can be found on the websites created specifically for these projects.

International projects

We prefer to implement international projects within the framework of H2020. This particularly well-known funding framework from the European Commission makes it possible to pursue unusually comprehensive and courageous research and innovation goals that, for financial reasons, would have little chance of being implemented outside of the funding framework. Last but not least, a highlight of H2020 projects are the international consortia, through which you get to know an enormously wide range of opinions and knowledge within the European Union.

REFLOW (H2020)

REFLOW is an EU funded project under H2020 that aims to understand and transform urban material flows and to develop and test regenerative solutions at corporate, administrative and citizen levels to create a resilient circular economy. Six pilot cities across Europe will test different approaches to circular economy in cities by focusing on different resource flows. At the heart of these pilots is a productive approach that empowers citizens and engages policymakers and industry leaders.

OPENEXT (H2020)

OPEN NEXT brings together SMEs and makerspaces across Europe to develop new products based on open source principles. In close contact with local designers and communities, we help companies go from 0 to a prototype and commercial roadmap with the power of open source. OPEN NEXT consists of 19 project partners from seven European countries. Our expertise ranges from business and data management to design processes, manufacturing and communications.

CAREABLES (H2020)

The "careables - making healthcare" project combines the forces of care design and the maker movement to create personally tailored solutions for barriers. Among other things, scientists, people with special health needs and their caregivers, as well as specialists in the health sector, are involved in order to develop personalized health concepts. The project also promotes the exchange of experiences related to personalized healthcare or legal advice.

SHAREPAIR (Interreg)

The project aims to reduce the amount of electrical and electronic waste by expanding citizens' repair initiatives through the use of digital tools: digital tools that stimulate and facilitate repairs by citizens by collecting repair solutions and using them make it easily accessible to citizens. The tools are aimed at consumers at home as well as more skilled repairmen in repair cafes. They will also direct citizens to high-quality professional repair services and, with the help of designers, will compile a database of 3D printed blueprints (open source) for printing spare parts.

National & regional projects

We use various funding frameworks and tenders at national and regional level. So it also happens that we are commissioned directly by clients to implement projects that coincide with our association's purposes. Projects at national and regional level often lead to concrete results more quickly than internationally oriented projects, which can be an advantage.

TPL (BMBF)

Set up by an interdisciplinary consortium from the fields of design, research and industry, theTextile Prototyping Labthe opportunity to realize complex textile projects. Open innovation, knowledge transfer and resource sharing are just some of our guiding principles.

ecoMaker (BMBF)

In the "ecoMaker" research project, scientists from the TU Berlin are working together with large makerspaces to cluster the collective knowledge of the German maker scene on the subject of ecological sustainability and to develop specific solutions. Sustainable products are collected on a platform with copy instructions and in-depth knowledge is offered. In addition, a sustainability tour for makerspaces will be developed as an AR application for the most common materials and processes, which will be made available to the maker scene open source.

RollWerk (Initiative)

Prototypes for Europe eV supports the RollWerk, a workshop community that deals with various facets of a sustainable and circular economy. The workshop community is currently working on opening up the common part of the workshop and offering it to the general public for their own activities.

The workshop should open weekly and pick up people with and without experience.

Monthly workshops, machine courses and repair cafés are offered at cost price.

SSL Mannheim (order)

The Sustainable Living Lab Mannheim is a NEXT MANNHEIM funding program that supports research groups, startups and innovative entrepreneurs in testing ecologically sustainable products or services in the city area. For this purpose, public and private real estate is provided as test areas for up to 6 months. In this way it is possible to test under realistic conditions what can still be improved in your solution and what already works well.