1. Research

We are conducting interviews, surveys and observatory studies to understand the current practices and the community needs.

  1. Hardware publication platform

We will gather a community of interest to co-create an ecosystem for hardware publication, including a peer review system, that will provide recognition for the hardware makers. The platform will be tested with use cases from the participating labs.

  1. Impact maximisation

We will produce open books to guide makers and PIs in their path to open and FAIR hardware production as well as work with the community to drive further acceptance of the developed workflows.

Team

Researchers from three Berlin universities are collaborating to make this project fly.

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Student assistant position available

on October 25, 2021

In Open.Make we are looking for three motivated student assistants to support our research team and enrich it with your own unique and complementary skillset. Any student of a Berlin university can apply to any of the three positions (salary 12,68 € brutto according to TV Stud III). The majority of the work needs to be done on site. Yet, some of the work can also be carried out remotely.

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Scope of the Open.Make project.

on September 27, 2021

The problem(s) Have you ever tried to follow instructions on how to assemble something and get stuck, either due to a lack of clarity or missing information? This can be annoying enough when you are trying to setup a new piece of furniture, but when your goal is to replicate someone’s research1, these annoyances create an additional burden. In the worst case, the research cannot be replicated and the research process is significantly slowed down.

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Genesis of the open.make project.

on August 31, 2021

On September 1st the Berlin university alliance project Open.make: toward open and FAIR hardware has officially started. Three labs that work together for the first time will collaborate and design a social and technical infrastructure, in order to foster open and FAIR hardware publication and recognition. In this post, we will describe how the idea was developed over a short period of time following the publication of a BUA call.

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Funding and partners