Maker Faire Rome

Deadline: June 24, 2019

The purpose of the “Call for Makers 2019” is to promote innovation by spreading the digital culture and developing individual and collective entrepreneurship, rewarding the best projects.

You can participate in several ways:
Projects worth exhibiting: selected applicants will be given a pre-set free booth (table + chairs) inside the exhibiting halls, strategically located so to be visited by the large audience that attend Maker Faire Rome right for the sake of discovering interesting projects.

Amazingly entertaining presentations: selected applicants will be given a free room (or a stage) to give project presentation/speech, tell a story, engage the audience in the issue they are keen to discuss.

Super cool workshops: selected applicants will be assigned a workshop area where they could hold interactive sessions and engage participants – adults and / or children – in “hands on” activities.

Performances: selected applicants will be given a free space (or a stage) for them to perform in creative, technological, robotic, musical, pyrotechnic performance.

What are we looking for:
Inventors and innovators: innovative products, prototypes, patents, research projects, startups, crowdfunding. When makers want to meet the market, they must come to Maker Faire Rome! Every year we build the future together.

Innovative craftsmen: tools and techniques for digital fabrication, from 3D printing to CNC machines, from creative woodworking and metalworking to digital techniques for fashion and design, but also high quality craft products and any process involving hand-making.

Electronics: from microcontrollers to retrocomputing, from sensors to Internet of Things, from circuit bending to hacking, from machine learning to open hardware.

Food and agriculture: innovation in food (including machines, robotics, techniques for preparation and conservation) and agriculture (agro-tech, rural innovation, automation, monitoring).

Robotics and intelligent machines: from wheel robots to animatronics, from humanoids to Goldberg machines, from artificial intelligence to industrial automation.

Health and quality of life: projects for improving life of disabled people, biomedical products, accessories for sport, projects about human body.

Art, interaction and games: projects using light, darkness, sound, music; robotic art, creative coding, musical instruments, virtual reality and interactive installations.

Science, chemistry, engineering: science exhibits and experiments, laboratories and shows for kids and adults.

Sustainability, Circular Economy, Bioeconomy, Green TECH, Smart Energy Green Building: from renewables to upcycling, from recycling of materials to repair culture, from water and environment, from green architecture and smart mobility.

Open Source: from Open Source Hardware (OSHW) to Open Design, collaboration and sharing has always been one of the key points of maker movement

Large-scale projects: innovative or playful, static or moving, sculptural or technologic, giant projets are always the great attraction that visitors always remember.

FabLab & Community: maker laboratories, gathering places for experimentation, maker groups and communities about technologies and creativity.

Spaceflight and its applications: ideas, technologies and prototypes for a more valuable exploitation on ground and in flight of space environment benefits and for a more effective, both human and robotic, exploration of the Solar System

Projects about this year’s topic: future belongs to everyone, innovation (when open, inclusive, bottom-up) is the only way for a better world.

…and then drones, bicycles, projects for cultural heritage, photography, security and any other topic not listed here.


No entry fee

Details:
https://2019.makerfairerome.eu/en/call-for-makers-en/