Hello!
This Blogpost is about what I am actually doing my internship on, and what is my internship project for this summer. As you may (or may not) know, I am currently doing my internship in the CRI-like open FIESTA department of Tsinghua university in Shenzhen (China). This department hosts a few summer activities for university students, including one in partnership with the university of Geneva, where students work in with international organisations in Europe to prototype open source hardware projects before arriving in China to actually manufacture their products. There are a lot of similar team project based summer activities happening worldwide, and my goal is to connect them in order for the staff and students to collaborate and exchange. My internship tutors have an idea called the United Labs. Their long-term objective is to create a network of Labs, Universities, maker spaces and social innovation incubators. Anyone from one of the branches wanting to create a project for sustainable development would have access to the whole network, and this would facilitate the process of grassroot sustainable change. However, this idea is for now simply an idea. My role for this summer is then to create a small scale template for what this project could become in a few years. By working closely with maker spaces, companies and universities, I have to show that the United Labs could - and already does - work. Then, we will be able to present not only the results but a plan for scaling things up, and hopefully get the sufficient international support and fundings to turn this idea into reality. Cool, right?
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