Fab Lab UCL has a “simple” business model. The majority of the funds are coming from the Odense University. Some came from the European Union as the team and the members of the space worked on 4 European projects.
The vast majority of prototypes are student work for their courses. Using these machines give them the opportunity to work on real products and get a digital badge at the end. This badge can be used on their resume and different kind of professional networks like Linkedin. They are used to justify the experience of the user and can easily be used to find a job.
Fab Lab UCL works also with high schools, kinder garden and other parts of the University. With more than ten thousand students and different fields like nursing, multimedia, IT, economic or tourism, the team has the challenge to adapt their teaching for these different groups.
Fab Lab UCL has a connection with other Fab Labs in Denmark but also with others on different Northern countries. They participate to different events in Denmark too, like Maker Festival. But the people in the team are workers and do not have necessarily the time to participate to all events. Four years ago, they also created one of the first meeting in Denmark to connect all makerspaces together.
FabLab UCL is involved inside the world FabLab Network but using its old name “FabLab EAL”.