FabLab Ed NL started
The Dutch informal working group has had its first meeting hosted by FabLab Amersfoort on January 15th. Some of the main actors in Dutch FabLab education land gave an update on their activities:
- Rotslab Utrecht have their own mobile FabLab; and together with Waag Society’s Creative Learning Lab they are looking into the possibilities of sharing educational content via Instructables.
- FryskLab works together with the regional library on a library/FabLab bus and on a prototoype for sharing metadata on educational content via Liked Open Data (together with Peter Troxler, Roland Cornelissen, Rotslab Utrecht and FabLab.NL).
- FabLab Amersfoort reported on a sponsoring approach of businesses sponsoring workshops for schools through “LabVouchers”.
- Various labs are collaborating with national and regional STEM programmes (“betatechniek”): e.g. Enschede, Rotterdam
- Atendees were pointed towards the international FabEd group on facebook, and a local one just has started at
The minutes (in Dutch) are available at this location

