Our publications range from reports, guides, toolkits, and perspectives to showcase the results of our collaborative projects, events, and research activities, as well as the insights and experiences of our diverse community members. Here, we aim to share our knowledge and practices to inspire more people to join us in creating positive change through open and inclusive innovation.
Policy Brief: Improving Visa Policies for African Innovators in International Cooperation Projects
Untransparent and unfair visa policies are undermining international cooperation efforts by restricting access to key opportunities, particularly for African innovators, creating systemic barriers to participation and collaboration.
Open Catalogue of Business Models for Makerspaces
This catalogue is intended to be a source of inspiration. It cannot tell
you what business models will work in your community, but it can
give you ideas and guidance on what might work. The elements in the catalogue are designed to be used like building blocks to create a unique model for your space.
Ministers Meet Makers Dialogue Report
This unified policy framework aims to provide the necessary support for makerspaces to advance innovation, education, and economic growth globally. The framework informs governments, policy makers, foundations, and donors about the transformative potential of makerspaces and their alignment with broader development goals
Right to Repair Policy Directive
The Right to Repair is an instrument for green and digital transformation. It can help reduce waste and resource use, democratize access to technology, as well as promote economic and social justice by empowering citizens and upholding consumer rights.
Recommendations for Policy Makers
The insights provided in this report highlight the significant role that makerspaces play in contemporary societies and economies. Makerspaces strengthen communities with job creation and facilitate technical skills development through educational programs such as skill training, hackathons, innovation challenges, events, and workshops.
Community Activation and Engagement Strategy
The context draws on the autonomy of already existing communities and networks of makers, innovators, hubs, and spaces within their own systematic cyclic orbits providing an opportunity to add value to and nurture them both on the individual and community level through the mAkE project.
Blueprints of Change: Inspiring Journeys fromthemAkE Ecosystem
In this compilation, you’ll encounter narratives that span continents and contexts, each showcasing the ingenuity, determination, and creativity of makers. You’ll meet youth empowered with entrepreneurial skills, metalworkers introduced to new horizons, and communities energized by the possibilities of distributed manufacturing.
Artificial Intelligence Uses Within GIG Network
The report, made in partnership with Brot für die Welt, details the journey from conception through implementation, shedding light on the challenges encountered by GIG members and the adaptive solutions they have developed. It captures the varied aspects of these AI projects, including the rationale behind their inception, the steps taken to realize these concepts, and the obstacles overcome during implementations.
Critical Making Practical Guidelines
Critical Making has been exploring the potential of the maker movement for social and responsible innovation. By engaging directly with the communities in participatory research processes the consortium aimed to show how maker spaces and maker practices can offer new opportunities for young makers of all genders to contribute to an open society via open source innovation.
2023
Critical Making Open Hardware Programme
The Critical Making Open Hardware Mentorship Program aimed to support global makers and innovators in shaping a sustainable future of making. Over the span of nine months, 18 mentees received guidance and input from our esteemed teachers on key principles of the sustainable making framework for their projects.
2023
Critical Making Final Report on Communication, Exploitation and Dissemination
The report showcases the project’s milestones, which include extensive community engagement through diverse case actions, scholarly papers that have been published, active participation in academic and popularised conferences, and the creation of comprehensive guides to promote inclusivity in making practices.
2023
Open Science for Peacebuilding Toolkit
Open science offers the means to develop and build tools to help us overcome conflicts. Open science and data literacy equip us to think critically about the root causes and potential solutions to many struggles. And finally, open science can serve as a vehicle for peace building in communities through collaborative events such as hackathons or marathons.
2022
Global Perspectives on Citizen Social Science
Bringing together together voices from around the globe to unpack what CSS needs to account for to be inclusive. Voices from diverse contexts share what science should look like when accounting for multiple voices, needs, and traditions worldwide. During ten months, we collected contributions from around the world in five key topics, compiled in this publication.
2022
CoAct Final Report on Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation
This document is the final report for CoAct’s consortium Communication and Dissemination activities led by the Global Innovation Gathering e.V. (GIG). During 36 months, CoAct delivered the Citizen Social Science concepts and practices to more than 1,6 million people, using a wide range of communication strategies and tools, combined with intense resilience and creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
Covid-19 Response From Global Makers: The Careables Cases of Global Design and Local Production
Open science offers the means to develop and build tools to help us overcome conflicts. Open science and data literacy equip us to think critically about the root causes and potential solutions to many struggles. And finally, open science can serve as a vehicle for peace building in communities through collaborative events such as hackathons or marathons.
2021
Careables Final Dissemination and Sustainability Report
This report sums up the most important communication and outreach activities, shows the reach we gained overall for the Careables activities during the H2020 funded project duration and gives an outlook into the future work on the Careables platform the partners agreed to.
2020
Engagement strategy & documentation of events
In this deliverable we first describe how we plan to engage the different stakeholders with
the final aim to make them users of the careables services, namely co-design sessions and
the careables platform. This document has been elaborated in close collaboration with the
team responsible for project communication, dissemination and outreach.
2019
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