SAMSax - Sustainable Additive Manufacturing in Saxony

• 12.1 IMPLEMENT THE 10-YEAR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION FRAMEWORK
• 12.2 SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
• 12.3 HALVE GLOBAL PER CAPITA FOOD WASTE
• 12.4 RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICALS AND WASTE
• 12.5 SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE WASTE GENERATION
• 12.6 ENCOURAGE COMPANIES TO ADOPT SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
• 12.7 PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PRACTICES
• 12.8 PROMOTE UNIVERSAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES
• 12.A SUPPORT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES’ SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• 12.B DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT TOOLS TO MONITOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

• 12.1-3 2. Community Engagement and Education + Workshops and training (sustainable practices, such as DIY repair, sustainable material use, or composting systems) + Living lab experiments: Living labs involve citizens in co-creating sustainable solutions, fostering awareness of responsible consumption and production behaviors. + Behavioral research: Living labs can study user behavior to identify barriers to sustainable consumption and test interventions to promote eco-conscious choices.
• 12.1-4 3. Supporting Local and Inclusive Production + Localized production models: Fablabs enable decentralized and small-scale production, reducing transportation emissions and supporting local economies. + Collaboration with local businesses (SMEs): to modernize traditional crafts with sustainable techniques and materials. + Social innovation: Living labs can involve underrepresented communities in co-developing solutions that address their specific sustainability challenges.
• 12.1-5 4. Advancing Policy and Collaboration + Policy prototyping: Living labs provide a real-world environment to test new policies for RCP before scaling them regionally or nationally. + Collaboration networks: Fablabs and living labs serve as hubs for connecting academia, governments, businesses, and citizens to implement 10YFP programs and share knowledge internationally.
• 12.1-6 5. Resource Efficiency and Circular Practices + Material innovation: Fablabs can explore and promote the use of bio-based, recycled, or non-toxic materials in production. + Repair and maintenance hubs: labs can serve as centers where people can repair and upgrade products, reducing waste. + Energy efficiency demonstrations: Living labs can showcase sustainable energy use in everyday life, serving as examples for communities.
• 12.1-7 Other contributions (please specify): + Test before invest: Living labs support SME in making decisions towards integrating sustainable production into their processes by providing access to technology to evaluate up until use-cases & demonstrators. YES
• 12.2-9 2. Fostering a Circular Economy + Upcycling and remanufacturing: Fablabs can serve as hubs for upcycling waste materials into new products or remanufacturing parts, keeping materials in use for longer. + Product life-cycle extension: Both fablabs and living labs can focus on repair, maintenance, and modular designs that allow products to be disassembled and reused rather than discarded. + Resource loops in local communities: Living labs can implement closed-loop systems at the community level, such as composting organic waste or reusing gray water for agriculture.
• 12.2-10 3. Developing and Demonstrating Sustainable Technologies + Resource-saving technologies: Fablabs can prototype devices that use fewer natural resources, such as water-saving irrigation systems, energy-efficient appliances, or renewable energy solutions (e.g., small-scale solar panels). + Smart resource management systems: Living labs can pilot IoT-based systems for efficient resource monitoring, such as sensors to reduce water or energy waste in households and businesses. + Showcasing innovations: Living labs can demonstrate technologies for sustainable natural resource management, serving as real-world examples for broader adoption.
• 12.2-11 4. Educating and Empowering Communities + Workshops on resource-efficient practices: Fablabs can educate individuals and small businesses on using resources more efficiently, such as through precision manufacturing techniques or sustainable sourcing. + Citizen science in living labs: Living labs can involve citizens in monitoring and managing local resources, such as tracking water quality, air quality, or energy use in their neighborhoods. + Behavioral change programs: By co-creating solutions, living labs encourage sustainable consumption habits and better awareness of resource conservation.
• 12.2-12 5. Collaborating for Resource Policy Development + Policy prototyping and scaling: Living labs can test resource management policies (e.g., waste reduction programs, sustainable agriculture practices) on a small scale before implementing them regionally or nationally. + Business and government partnerships: Fablabs and living labs can act as innovation hubs where businesses, governments, and academia collaborate to solve resource-related challenges.
• 12.3-17 3. Promoting Circular Economy Solutions for Food Systems + Upcycling food waste: Fablabs can experiment with ways to turn food waste into new products, such as creating edible powders from fruit and vegetable scraps or animal feed from byproducts. + Community composting initiatives: Living labs can implement community-based composting systems to process organic waste and return nutrients to local food systems. + Bio-based material innovation: Fablabs can explore using food waste as raw materials for other industries, such as creating bioplastics from potato starch or coffee grounds.
• 12.3-19 5. Empowering Small-Scale Farmers and Businesses + Post-harvest technology development: Fablabs can provide small-scale farmers access to low-cost tools and technologies that reduce post-harvest losses, such as solar dryers for preserving fruits and vegetables. + Training programs: Both labs can train farmers and food businesses in best practices for storage, transportation, and handling to minimize food loss. + Collaboration hubs: Living labs can create spaces where small businesses, local farmers, and researchers co-develop strategies to reduce food waste across the value chain.
• 12.3-21 Other contributions (please specify): + utilising food production residues (e.g. chaff, husks, shells, stones) in new technologies to promote full usage of the plant; promoting knowledge and networking between farmers and businesses who could be users of the material YES
• 12.4-23 2. Supporting Responsible Waste Management + E-waste recycling systems: Fablabs can design and implement low-cost e-waste recycling solutions, such as tools for extracting valuable materials like metals from electronic waste. + Waste-to-resource innovations: Both labs can explore ways to repurpose chemical or industrial waste into usable products, such as turning construction waste into building materials or plastic waste into 3D printing filament. + DIY waste management tools: Fablabs can create accessible tools or machines (e.g., small-scale shredders, bioplastic molding kits) to help communities safely manage and repurpose waste.
• 12.4-24 3. Promoting Circular Economy Models + Material recovery and reuse: Fablabs can develop processes and technologies for recovering and reusing materials from industrial or chemical waste, such as recycling rare metals from batteries. + Living labs for local waste systems: Living labs can co-develop community-level circular economy initiatives, such as centralized facilities for collecting, sorting, and repurposing hazardous materials like paints, oils, or batteries. + Closed-loop experiments: Living labs can test systems where chemical by-products are reused within the community or local industry rather than discarded.
• 12.4-26 5. Supporting Industrial Innovation + Cleaner production methods: Fablabs can work with local businesses to prototype and test cleaner production processes, such as non-toxic coatings or safer manufacturing techniques. + Pollution monitoring technologies: Both labs can develop low-cost devices for monitoring the release of hazardous substances into air, water, and soil, helping industries comply with environmental regulations. + Collaborative innovation hubs: Living labs can serve as platforms where industries, governments, and researchers co-design solutions for reducing hazardous waste and emissions.
• 12.4-27 6. Policy Development and Piloting + Testing waste and chemical management systems: Living labs can work with governments to test policies or systems for waste segregation, hazardous material collection, or chemical bans. + Community input on regulations: Living labs can engage citizens in co-creating solutions and providing feedback on waste and chemical management policies. + Tracking and reporting systems: Fablabs can help design open-source tools or platforms to track the life cycle of chemicals and hazardous waste to ensure compliance with regulations.
• 12.4-28 7. Advancing Sustainable Technologies + Safe waste treatment systems: Fablabs can prototype technologies for treating hazardous waste, such as small-scale incinerators with emissions controls or chemical neutralization kits. + Bioremediation innovations: Both labs can explore the use of natural methods, like bacteria, fungi, or plants, to detoxify contaminated environments. + Renewable energy-powered systems: Fablabs can develop renewable energy-powered solutions, such as solar-powered water treatment systems to address chemical contamination in water bodies.
• 12.5-31 2. Advancing Recycling Innovations + Upcycling technologies: Fablabs can create tools and machines for upcycling materials, such as converting plastic waste into 3D printer filament or fabric scraps into new textiles. + DIY recycling machines: Inspired by initiatives like Precious Plastic, fablabs can develop small-scale, low-cost recycling machines that allow individuals or small communities to recycle materials like plastic, metal, or glass. + Material sorting innovations: Fablabs can prototype devices or systems to improve waste sorting and recycling efficiency, such as AI-driven sorting machines or affordable manual sorting systems.
• 12.5-34 5. Developing Circular Economy Solutions + Closed-loop systems: Living labs can test local circular economy systems, such as collecting organic waste to create compost for urban farms or repurposing construction waste into building materials. + Resource sharing platforms: Fablabs can design digital platforms to facilitate resource sharing, such as swapping or donating items rather than discarding them. + Community-scale circular economy initiatives: Both labs can co-create solutions for turning waste streams (e.g., food, packaging, textiles) into resources for local industries or communities.
• 12.5-35 6. Supporting Businesses in Reducing Waste + Waste audits: Living labs can work with local businesses to identify waste reduction opportunities in their operations, such as reducing packaging or transitioning to reusable materials. + Eco-innovation incubation: Fablabs can serve as incubators for startups focused on waste reduction, providing resources and tools to test and develop their ideas. + Prototyping sustainable packaging: Fablabs can prototype alternatives to traditional packaging, such as biodegradable, compostable, or reusable options.
• 12.5-37 8. Exploring New Waste Conversion Techniques + Energy recovery technologies: Fablabs can prototype small-scale systems to convert non-recyclable waste into energy, such as bio-digesters for organic waste or pyrolysis systems for plastics. + Bio-based solutions: Both labs can explore biological methods for reducing waste, such as using fungi to break down plastics or bacteria to digest organic waste. + Industrial symbiosis: Living labs can facilitate collaborations between industries to reuse one industry’s waste as input for another (e.g., reusing fly ash from power plants in construction).
• 12.6-41 3. Encouraging Circular Economy Business Models + Business model co-creation: Living labs can facilitate collaboration between businesses, researchers, and policymakers to develop and test circular economy models that reduce resource consumption and waste. + Industrial symbiosis experiments: Living labs can pilot initiatives where one company’s waste becomes another company’s raw material, fostering cross-industry sustainability. + Product-as-a-service models: Fablabs can prototype and test product-as-a-service solutions (e.g., renting instead of selling products) to help companies transition to more sustainable business models.
• 12.6-42 4. Developing Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains + Blockchain for transparency: Fablabs can prototype blockchain-based solutions to help businesses track the sustainability of their supply chains, ensuring ethical sourcing and reducing environmental impact. + Sustainable logistics solutions: Living labs can test and refine low-carbon logistics solutions, such as electric delivery fleets or shared transportation networks. + Eco-labeling and certification support: Both labs can help businesses navigate eco-certification processes, such as Fair Trade, Cradle to Cradle, or Carbon Neutral certifications.
• 12.6-45 7. Demonstrating Business Value of Sustainability + Showcasing successful case studies: Living labs can document and share case studies of companies that have improved profitability and brand reputation through sustainable practices. + Sustainability impact assessments: Both labs can provide businesses with data-driven insights on how sustainable practices lead to cost savings, risk reduction, and market competitiveness. + Public-private partnerships: Living labs can facilitate collaborations between companies, government agencies, and NGOs to create large-scale sustainability initiatives.
• 12.7-49 3. Enhancing Transparency and Sustainability Standards + Blockchain for sustainable procurement: Fablabs can prototype blockchain-based tracking systems to verify the sustainability credentials of procured products, ensuring fair trade and ethical sourcing. + Sustainability certification support: Living labs can help suppliers comply with green procurement standards (e.g., eco-labeling, ISO 14001, Fair Trade) through training and technology assistance. + Green procurement databases: Fablabs can develop digital platforms listing sustainable suppliers, making it easier for governments to identify eco-friendly procurement options.
• 12.7-50 4. Encouraging Public Sector Adoption of Sustainable Procurement + Pilot programs in local governments: Living labs can work with municipalities to test sustainable procurement policies, such as requiring all public events to be plastic-free or purchasing only recycled paper products. + Procurement training and awareness: Both labs can organize workshops for government procurement officers on integrating sustainability criteria into their decision-making. + Public-private partnerships: Living labs can facilitate collaborations between governments, businesses, and researchers to improve public procurement sustainability practices.
• 12.7-51 5. Driving Innovation in Sustainable Services + Green infrastructure solutions: Fablabs can prototype smart energy-efficient street lighting, modular public furniture from recycled materials, or sustainable building materials for public projects. + Eco-friendly transportation procurement: Living labs can test low-emission transport solutions for public procurement, such as electric buses or bicycle-sharing programs. + Sustainable IT procurement: Fablabs can help develop guidelines for procuring energy-efficient computers, printers, and digital services that minimize electronic waste.
• 12.7-53 7. Scaling Up Best Practices in Sustainable Procurement + Sharing procurement success stories: Living labs can document and share case studies of successful sustainable procurement initiatives to inspire other regions. + Policy recommendations and advocacy: Both labs can work with policymakers to advocate for stronger sustainability criteria in national procurement laws. + Replication of successful pilots: Living labs can help scale up tested sustainable procurement models, ensuring their adoption across different government levels.
• 12.8-57 3. Developing Open-Source Sustainability Resources +Educational toolkits: Fablabs can create and share open-source sustainability guides, helping educators and individuals implement eco-friendly practices. +Sustainability-focused online platforms: Living labs can develop digital tools that provide sustainable living tips, track personal carbon footprints, or connect people with local green initiatives. +Localized sustainability content: Both labs can translate and adapt global sustainability knowledge to local cultural and environmental contexts.
• 12.8-58 4. Raising Awareness Through Public Engagement Initiatives +Sustainability festivals and expos: Living labs can organize events that showcase green innovations, sustainable food systems, and responsible consumption practices. +Community-led awareness campaigns: Fablabs can support grassroots movements by designing posters, infographics, and digital content that promote sustainable behaviors. +Public art and sustainability storytelling: Living labs can work with artists to create murals, exhibitions, or interactive installations that communicate sustainability messages.
• 12.8-60 6. Bridging Science, Policy, and Community Action +Policy co-creation workshops: Living labs can bring together policymakers, scientists, and citizens to develop and test sustainability policies. +Sustainable business incubation: Fablabs can support startups and entrepreneurs in developing green businesses that align with sustainable consumption principles. +Collaboration with schools and universities: Both labs can partner with educational institutions to integrate sustainability topics into curricula and research projects.
• 12.8-61 7. Demonstrating Practical Solutions for Sustainable Living +Sustainable home and city prototypes: Fablabs can showcase model eco-homes, urban gardens, and renewable energy solutions as real-life examples of sustainable living. +Eco-friendly technology demonstrations: Both labs can test and demonstrate innovative solutions, such as water-saving devices, composting systems, and solar-powered appliances. +Living lab experiments for urban sustainability: Living labs can test new approaches to sustainable mobility, food production, and waste management in real-world settings.
• 12.A-64 2. Capacity Building and Skills Development + Technical training programs: Fablabs can offer workshops on sustainable manufacturing, repair skills, and circular economy practices to empower local communities. + Entrepreneurship support: Living labs can incubate green startups by providing mentorship, funding access, and testing spaces for sustainable business models. + STEM education for sustainability: Both labs can engage youth in hands-on learning about sustainability-focused science and engineering.
• 12.A-65 3. Promoting Localized Sustainable Production + Circular economy prototyping: Fablabs can experiment with waste-to-product solutions, such as turning plastic waste into construction materials. + Sustainable agriculture innovations: Living labs can test climate-smart farming techniques, such as vertical farming, aquaponics, and organic composting. + Eco-friendly small-scale industries: Both labs can support the development of low-impact textile, food, and handicraft production methods.
• 12.A-67 5. Facilitating Knowledge Exchange and South-South Cooperation + Global maker networks: Fablabs can connect innovators from different countries to share best practices in sustainable production. + International sustainability collaborations: Living labs can foster partnerships between local communities, NGOs, and global organizations. + Scaling up traditional knowledge: Both labs can integrate indigenous sustainability practices with modern science to create locally adapted solutions.
• 12.B-71 3. Supporting Local Communities and Cultural Heritage + Community-led tourism platforms: Living labs can help local artisans and tour guides develop online marketplaces for authentic, sustainable tourism experiences. + Traditional craft revival: Fablabs can support local artisans by providing modern tools (e.g., laser cutters, 3D printing) to enhance traditional handicrafts sustainably. + Storytelling and cultural preservation: Living labs can use digital tools (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) to showcase indigenous knowledge and history.

Other education offerings

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Education for Kids and Students

• kids-5 STEM & Digital Fabrication → 3D printing, laser cutting, coding, and robotics
• kids-6 Sustainability & Smart Cities → Eco-friendly innovation and IoT
• kids-7 Prototyping & Research → Hands-on experience with AI, sensors, and design thinking

Education for Professionals & Entrepreneurs

• prof-9 Startup & Product Development → Prototyping, MVP (Minimum Viable Product) creation, and business incubation
• prof-10 Industry 4.0 & Tech Upskilling → AI, IoT, automation, and CNC machining

Other equipment

• — Digital Fabrication: Binder-Jetting (BJT) machinery Digital Fabrication: Binder-Jetting (BJT) machinery
• — Digital Fabrication: Powder Bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) metal machinery Digital Fabrication: Powder Bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) metal machinery
• — Digital Fabrication: Directed Energy Deposition (DED-ARC/M) wire arc additive manufacturing (metal) Digital Fabrication: Directed Energy Deposition (DED-ARC/M) wire arc additive manufacturing (metal)
• — Measurement equipment: Microscopy (optical, confocal) and Software Measurement equipment: Microscopy (optical, confocal) and Software
• — Measurement equipment: 3-coordinate measurement machinery Measurement equipment: 3-coordinate measurement machinery
• — Measurement equipment: mechanical testing machinery Measurement equipment: mechanical testing machinery
• — Material preparation: Particle milling equipment Material preparation: Particle milling equipment
• — Material preparation: Particle mixing equipment Material preparation: Particle mixing equipment
• — Material preparation: Filament extrusion equipment Material preparation: Filament extrusion equipment
• — Material preparation: Material humidity measurement equipment Material preparation: Material humidity measurement equipment
• — Climate controlled and drying cabinets Climate controlled and drying cabinets
• — 3D-Scanners 3D-Scanners

Digital Fabrication

• digfab-5 3D printing: Fused deposition moulding (FDM)
• digfab-6 3D printing: Stereolithography (SLA)
• digfab-7 3D printing: Selective laser sintering (SLS)
• digfab-8 Laser Cutters & Engravers
• digfab-9 CNC Machines (router, milling)

Electronics

• elec-12 Soldering Stations
• elec-13 Multimeters & Oscilloscopes
• elec-14 Microcontrollers & Development Boards (Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
• elec-15 Basic Electronic Components (resistors, capacitors, sensors)

Computing & Software

• compsw-17 High-Performance Workstations (for CAD, simulation)
• compsw-18 Design & Programming Software (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Adobe Suite)

Collaboration & Innovation Tools

• collab-23 Whiteboards & Projectors
• collab-24 Workbenches & Modular Furniture