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impart starts in December

Fixing laptops and giving them a new lease of life – that is what refugees learn in the new project ‘impart’. Starting in December tutors will pass on solid knowledge of IT in a series of workshops. The Tübingen-based FabLab Neckar-Alb e.V. is organising an educational project for refugees funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg. The participants refurbish donated laptops which are then passed on to refugee organisations. In a series of workshops refugees learn to repair hardware, install operating systems and select appropriate software. They also learn about configuration of networks and the topic of internet security. By attending regularly refugees improve their employability. At the end of the course a certificate documents the skills acquired. FabLab requests hardware and monetary donations to support the project.

The ‘impart’ workshops begin on 7 December with a practical introduction to hardware.

Registration and enquiries: impart@nullfablab-neckar-alb.org

Information on the project: www.fablab-neckar-alb.org/impart

2. Fräs-Workshop

Aufgrund des großen Interesses hab es gleich noch einen zweiten Workshop an der Fräse.

Ich weiß, es gibt zahlreiche weitere Interessent*innen, aber als nächstes wird es erstmal “Führerschein”-Kurse an der Fräse geben. Mitglieder im FabLab, die den Fräs-Führerschein haben können dann endlich selbstständig eigene Ideen umsetzen.

A new life for serveral laptops

You’ll probably want to know what happened to the 20 laptops, that were ready after the last reboot-day: Most of them are already given away to serveral groups and users.

Six laptops are not at Asylcafé in Französisches Viertel in Tübingen, three have been given to www.weststadtasyl.de, two are used by underaged refugees via TeamTraining GmbH and four laptops are at Hirrlingen for German classes.

Again thanks a lot to all our donators and to everyone who contributed to finish the laptops!

Another very successfull reboot-day

Thanks a lot to all who helped to make an amazing day! We were able to fix about 20 Computers!

An evening for Reboot – 8th October

We will end our summer pause at 8th October! Now is the time to restart repairing old laptops for refugees. We have received several laptop donations during summer, our boxes are full and waiting for someone to care for it.

Do you want to help us? We are searching for Linux-Experts and hardware specialists but we are also looking for cake and salad donations. Do you just want to have a look and see what we are doing? You are also welcome! We’ll start at 4 pm at 8th October.

If you are searching for a laptop for a refugee oder a group helping refugees let us know.