Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

SENAI Open Laboratory


Description

The Open Lab is a learning environment created to welcome people with different profiles and skills. Offering free access to equipment, it encourages collaborative work for product, process and business development.
Located in the Center for Innovation and Technology SENAI FIEMG CIT , the Laboratory is located in a region known as the "City of Knowledge", because it houses several institutes, universities, incubators and research promotion entities.
By adopting the "do it yourself" concept, the Open Lab promotes the connection between entrepreneurs to solve technological challenges. it encourages interaction among users so that they can work on joint solutions, strengthening the technological bases and aiming to foster entrepreneurship based on innovation from the creation of new companies and also from the support to companies in the growth phase.
It is an environment for entrepreneurs, small businesses, inventors, students and all those who have an idea and want to execute it to start the process of transforming into a business, testing and validating their products.It is a space that stimulates people through the creative economy, innovation and knowledge.

Project website

https://www7.fiemg.com.br/regionais/sede/unidade/senai---laboratorio-aberto


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C4. Capacity building 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education

Coverage
  • Brazil

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2017

End date

Not set


WSIS values promotion

Capacity building


Entity name

SENAI FIEMG CIT

Entity country—type

Brazil Private Sector

Entity website

https://www7.fiemg.com.br/cit/mais-cit

Partners

The Open Lab has a partnership with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), SENAI and Sebrae to provide key resources, technical and financial support.