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The action we created as a following step of Vulca Tours is enabling the community to interconnect with each other, deepening the sense of belonging to the network Vulca is developing.

Every year Vulca organizes a seminar in a different place and country in Europe to keep the association and its actions decentralised.

Meet, share, discuss and scale up

About our seminar

Our journey made us enthusiastic to gather people with various backgrounds and different professions, to create a community of people working towards solutions for collective problems.

Around 100 participants come from all over Europe believing you don’t have to be a professional stakeholder to make a contribution to the future of the european society. And we think citizens’ ideas can and are already making changes.

Through this action, we want to emphasize different communities in Europe. Each year, seminar is organised in different place/country. Each year, topics are adapted based on key efforts of the welcoming community (i.e. social inclusion, STEAM education, particular SDG, rural challenge…).

Connecting communities in smaller groups around different topics made us understand better the geographical distribution of similar activities. Therefore, we become proficient in interconnecting members of different communities for peer-to-peer exchanges between spaces in different countries.

4 MAIN OBJECTIVES

Networking & Team building

Network & team build in a multicultural, interdisciplinary environment

Making RESIDENCY MAKERS more accessible

Helping makers and spaces to interconnect around existing exchange programmes

Facing global challenges

Discuss the impact makers’ movement and mobility of individuals have on solving global challenges

Impacting the future of policymaking

Discuss the way citizens’ initiatives with « on-the-field » approach can influence the future of policymaking

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VULCA SEMINAR 2017

The first VULCA Community meeting was organised in the city of Moulins (France) with the collaboration of the French Fablab Network that organised at the same time their national meeting called #OctoberMake. (October 2017)

We all agreed that it is needed to extend our knowledge of the makers’ movement in Europe by launching more VULCA TOURs + participating in more European conferences. We were encouraged to organise a meeting with MEPs in the beginning of 2018 to introduce our vision of #MakersMobility in Europe.

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VULCA SEMINAR 2018

The second VULCA SEMINAR was organised in the city of Clermont-Ferrand and le Puy-en-Velay (France) in July 2018.

We had a long discussion about several meetings we had in January 2018 in the European Commission with several MEPS interested to developp a makers’ mobility pilot project in Europe.

How do we position Vulca in this Pilot Project and in the future since we are all volunteers?

We had the chance to have as a main speakers Paulo Rosa (DG JRC of the European Commission) that presented his work.

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VULCA SEMINAR 2019

For the very first time seminar was held outside of France, in Poznan, Poland. It was organised as a joint effort with community from Zaklad Makerspace, based in an old chocolate manufactory. We were divided in 2 working groups – makers and researchers, to work 3 topics:

  • How to do an efficient « match-making » process between a maker and fablab/makerspace?
  • How to finance makers’ mobility exchange experience?
  • How to properly document a residency?


As an outcome, we need to continue to bridge the gap between makers and researchers. We should also include policy makers for the next seminar, and teachers to try to implement makers’ activities even more in STEAM education programs.

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MAKERS MOBILITY - E_WEEK
2020 & 2021 (Due to Covid-restriction)

Due to the pandemic, we are all having a difficult time. Locally, labs have been closed (or partially closed) for a year now. National makerspaces/fablabs networks can’t organise in-person their annual national meetings. Similar problem reached us, Vulca, since we cannot organise our yearly seminar as well.

In 2020 we had to postpone the VULCA SEMINAR, planned for April, in Zadar – Croatia.

With our partners, Fablab.hr and the City of Zadar, we have decided not to cancel, but postpone the event for another year when european regulations will allow us to make it possible.

In april 2020, we organised a day online with members and partners to share feedbacks regarding our experience in the pandemic and also to hold the Vulca General Assembly 2020 with a new board election this year.

In 2021, we also organised a gathering online and if that wasn’t enough, MakerTour decided to stop their activities and close their association.

Fortunately, before MakerTour definitely stopped, we decided to team up and organise one week of sharing documentation and good practices related to our tours all over the world, that are documented on the MakerTour website.

Also, this week was the opportunity to highlight several makerspaces that inspired VULCA, especially their approaches of hosting or sending makers in residency !

VULCA SEMINAR 2022

After three long years, Vulca Seminar is happening in person again!
 
Now we are more than ready to help put more makers in mobility. We believe distributed projects are the first step of starting your own #MakersInResidency adventure, and building a stronger network among makers.

Here are the topics we want to explore with you:
    • – How to conduct Distributed projects in Manufacturing, Agriculture, Education, Research..
    • – How to create new #MakersInResdiency opportunities?
    • – How to improve Makertour, a collaborative platform to foster residency for makers?
    • – Is there a need for creating a new European organization to coordinate and support distributed makers’ initiatives


Join us in Fundão, Portugal, where local makers’ community will host the 4th Vulca seminar under the moto: “From distributed initiatives to Makers in Residency”.

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VULCA SEMINAR 2023

Previous editions of VULCA Seminar brought us to several European countries such as France, Poland or Portugal. In 2023 VULCA community was reunited in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

We visited Slovenia in 2017, meeting Kreator Lab in Maribor, and then Zavod 404, Poligon and Rog Lab in Ljubljana. Years after, we kept relations with some of them through different projects and events.

2023 was the right moment to organise something together, and the new CENTER ROG was the perfect place to host the VULCA community for 3 days of conference, workshops and networking.

« LEARNING NETWORK »

Here was our motto for 2023. We are all taking part in different networks, in different countries and involved in diverse projects. It’s quite complicated to understand networks but they are essential when it comes to cooperation and especially hosting the right international maker in residency ! 

More information about this 6th edition

There are different ways you can take part of the seminar. You want to share your thoughts, help us to run the event smoothly or you want to support our initiative in a different way?

JOIN THE 2024 SEMINAR

become a speaker

You saw an interesting topic in our program and you think your voice can add more value?

Contact us on seminar@vulca.eu

VOLUNTEER

You have skills and want to help? Or you want to learn more about what we do, but from « behind the scenes »?

Contact us on seminar@vulca.eu

become a sponsor

You like our dynamic and would like to make a contribution? You want to talk about us or make a donation?

Contact us on seminar@vulca.eu