
Build digital skills. Share what works.
skillNest connects learners, educators and FabLabs through practical workshops, RE/UP programmes and shared experience across Europe.
How do you want to use skillNest?
For learners, students, employees and makers
I want to learn and create
Find hands-on workshops, develop practical digital manufacturing skills and connect with labs and experts.
- Discover workshops and RE/UP programmes
- Find a FabLab near you
- Learn skills you can use in real projects
For FabLabs, educators and training teams
I teach or work in a lab
Explore how other organisations design practical training, discover programme formats and connect with experts across the network.
- Explore RE/UP programme approaches
- Discover labs and their expertise
- Find educators and industrial experts
- Share your own experience
Representing a company or institution?
Identify a skills gap, propose an industry challenge or collaborate on a training programme.
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Current opportunities across the skillNest network.

Vibe Coding is an AI-supported approach to software development where users collaborate with AI assistants to create digital solutions more efficiently. This workshop provides a practical introduction to building web-based prototypes with modern AI tools. Participants set up Visual Studio Code and use AI coding assistants such as Continue with OpenRouter, Codex, or Claude Code to generate, improve, and debug code. They create their own website using HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, test and refine their projects, and publish them via GitHub Pages. The workshop also covers best practices for AI-supported development, including effective prompting, iterative testing, error analysis, secure handling of API keys and private data, and testing applications across different devices.
Target: Other
This module explores the difference between 2D and 3D shapes and the aesthetic, informational, structural and visual role of 2D patterns in design and digital fabrication. By assembling pre-cut laser-cut 2D elements into a 3D form, exploring the moiré effect, and working hands-on with a diode laser, students learn vector-file preparation basics, the difference between cutting and engraving, and laser safety procedures. The workshop follows a 'hand before software' principle — an analogue chisel/pyrography exercise always precedes the digital (CNC/laser) equivalent.
Target: Unprivileged

Apprentice Innovation Workshop Series – Digital Manufacturing & Emerging Technologies
brigk Makerspace/ Germany
The Apprentice Innovation Workshop Series equips participants with practical skills in digital technologies and innovation processes. Throughout the program, apprentices are introduced to Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 3D printing, laser cutting, embedded electronics and programming, artificial intelligence, and project management. Participants work on a practical innovation challenge that is defined in collaboration with their training companies, ensuring that the learning experience is directly connected to real business needs. Between workshop sessions, participants complete manageable assignments that allow them to deepen their knowledge and further develop their projects. Working in interdisciplinary teams, they apply newly acquired skills to design, prototype, and refine innovative solutions while strengthening collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Target: Other
How skillNest connects the ecosystem
From an identified skills gap to a practical outcome — every workshop on skillNest traces back to a real need.
Need
Companies and labour-market stakeholders identify a concrete skills gap.
Programme
Partners design a RE/UP programme package to address it.
Workshop
The programme is delivered as hands-on workshops in a FabLab.
Practical skills
Participants leave with skills they can apply immediately.
About DiSTT
skillNest is built as part of DiSTT, an Interreg Central Europe project developing shared digital upskilling and reskilling programmes across five countries. Six partner FabLabs designed and piloted the RE/UP programmes you can explore here.

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