échofab

Since 2011, échofab is a participatory space where everyone has access to technology and can learn to create, carry out projects and share knowledge with other community members. It is a digital manufacturing lab and a place where information is passed on to the masses. It is also a place to invent and generate concrete solutions through the co-creation of new-generation objects that are documented, replicable and improvable. échofab promotes knowledge transfer and sharing to improve quality of life and innovation on the scientific, economic, social and technological fronts. échofab subscribes to a vision of a community of learning that supports sustainable development. Moreover, it encourages entrepreneurship by attracting personal and group projects and offering participants the right conditions to develop their ideas in a collaborative setting.

échofab brings together the driving forces from several areas (digital manufacturing, scientific and technical skill building, sustainable development and business mentoring). The combined effect aims to stimulate and facilitate innovative entrepreneurial projects for both the green and digital economies.

échofab offers unique services and training to high school and college students as well as entrepreneurs in the making. Throughout Greater Montréal and the province of Québec,.échofab expresses an ambitious unifying project and holds the promise of a bright future.