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skillNest connects learners, educators and FabLabs through practical workshops, RE/UP programmes and shared experience across Europe.

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Industrial Robotic 3D Printing with Polymers
IntermediateIn Preparation

Industrial Robotic 3D Printing with Polymers

strojLAB/ Czechia

Lecturer: Vojtěch Florián , David Škaroupka, Petr Krejčiřík, Petr Křivohlavý

An intensive three-day workshop covering the complete workflow of large-scale robotic 3D printing with polymers. Participants will learn how to design and generate toolpaths in Grasshopper, understand robotic motion and process limitations, and validate their designs through real-world printing on a six-axis robotic system. The focus is on connecting parametric design with manufacturing reality—what you design, you will actually print. 14. - 16. 7. 2026 price: 9 900 Kč plus VAT

Target: Other

Professional studio
26h
10 max
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Advanced Strategies for Clay 3D Printing
IntroductoryIn Preparation

Advanced Strategies for Clay 3D Printing

strojLAB/ Czechia

Lecturer: Jan Vítek

This hands-on workshop offers a complete introduction to ceramic 3D printing using parametric design. Participants will work with a pre-made Grasshopper script to customize a design and generate printable G-code. Each customized object will then be printed from clay, giving participants the opportunity to experience the full workflow — from digital design to physical fabrication. The process includes an explanation of the technology, printing setup, and advanced clay printing strategies.

Target: Other

Short term workshop
4h
35 max
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Upcycling workshop
BeginnerIn Preparation

Upcycling workshop

strojLAB/ Czechia

Lecturer: Jan Vítek

The semester project focused on the topic of upcycling and the creative reuse of waste and surplus materials originating from industrial production and manufacturing processes. Students worked in teams and were tasked with sourcing various discarded or leftover materials from factories, workshops, or other production facilities — such as textile remnants, cardboard tubes, broken hockey sticks, reinforcing steel bars, and other unused components — and designing a new value-added product from them. The emphasis was placed not on conventional recycling, but on the principles of upcycling, meaning the effective reuse of existing materials and their original forms while minimizing additional energy-intensive processing. Students were required to analyze the specific properties, potential, and limitations of each material and incorporate these characteristics into a product design that meaningfully utilized their advantages. An important aspect of the assignment was also the role of constraints — the availability, dimensions, and existing shapes of the collected materials directly influenced the resulting designs and acted as significant compositional and structural limitations. The project therefore encouraged students to think more critically about the relationship between material, form, manufacturing processes, and the final function of a product.

Target: University students

Weekly studio
39h
9 max
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How skillNest connects the ecosystem

From an identified skills gap to a practical outcome — every workshop on skillNest traces back to a real need.

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Need

Companies and labour-market stakeholders identify a concrete skills gap.

2

Programme

Partners design a RE/UP programme package to address it.

3

Workshop

The programme is delivered as hands-on workshops in a FabLab.

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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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