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African Drive Reaches Crowdfunding Target on Bolero Crowdfunding

Stephanie Benoit
August 10, 2016
African Drive Reaches Crowdfunding Target on Bolero Crowdfunding

African Drive is an initiative that was founded three years ago by a group of Belgian entrepreneurs led by our CEO, Fried Vancraen. With the aim of creating a safe and dependable method of transportation for the inhabitants of Benin, African Drive’s affiliate, Baobab Express, started providing locals with a secure, low-cost way of getting from city to city.

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All aboard the Dream Bus: Materialise Takes 3D Printing to West China

Stephanie Benoit
June 14, 2016
All aboard the Dream Bus: Materialise Takes 3D Printing to West China

Born as an initiative from one of our colleagues at the Materialise China office, Tom Yan, the Silk Road project aims to spur innovation and development in the Western part of China. Together with Chinese charity organization, Adream, and TEACH, a company that provides courses on 3D Printing, Materialise organized a mobile Dream Bus, that will drive through Western China and stop in several locations to allow local children to learn about 3D Printing.

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How Do You Design and Realize a Customized 3D-Printed Hand?

Ayishwariya Menon
February 18, 2016
How Do You Design and Realize a Customized 3D-Printed Hand?

We had the opportunity here at Materialise Malaysia to start off 2016 by living up to the Materialise motto: working towards a better and healthier world. With the help of some talented and generous people, I was able to make a real difference in a wonderful little boy’s life, with a 3D-printed hand. But between the original inspiration to do this, and the final, happy, day when Padmaloshn tried on his new hand for the first time, lay months of dedicated effort by various people. This is how we created Padmaloshn’s new 3D-printed hand.

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A High Five to Padmaloshn for His New 3D-Printed Hand!

Radhika Dhuru
February 09, 2016
A High Five to Padmaloshn for His New 3D-Printed Hand!

Meet Padmaloshn Vijayan, a cheerful little LEGO-building schoolboy from Kuala Lumpur. In all his young life, this capable 7-year-old has been performing his daily activities single-handedly: Padmaloshn was born without a fully developed right hand. Last year, he met Ayishwariya Menon, a volunteer teacher for a human values education program run weekly in his community — who also happens to be the clinical team manager at Materialise Malaysia. A few months later, Padmaloshn received his first 3D-printed experimental hand, designed by open-source community e-NABLE and printed by Materialise. Here’s how it all unfolded.

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Benin Summer School 2015: What We Learned from Organizing a Scholarship Summer School in Papané

Julien Deckx
December 18, 2015
Benin Summer School 2015: What We Learned from Organizing a Scholarship Summer School in Papané

In early August, I reached Benin with my partner Lotte, Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen and Executive Vice President Hilde Ingelaere. The goal for the next month was to conduct a summer school at the hospital in Papané, with 17 students—the best performers from four high schools in the region—and guide them through the developmental projects they had chosen to work on. At the end of three weeks, three students would be chosen to receive a scholarship to aid their further education. Looking back at my notes over the following month, I think we had as much to learn as the students did.

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Throwback to Summer: Run4Benin Fundraiser Race at Materialise HQ

Radhika Dhuru
November 11, 2015
Throwback to Summer: Run4Benin Fundraiser Race at Materialise HQ

Late every summer at Materialise, there comes a day when professionally dressed people suddenly transform into runners in full gear. That’s when you know it’s the day to Run4Benin. The race, which takes a route through in the green fields around Materialise HQ, raises funds to co-organize a summer school in the small West African country Benin. It also gets people off their office chairs and into their running shoes, which is great.

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Materialise Malaysia Runs for Benin!

Firdaus Abhar
April 10, 2015
Materialise Malaysia Runs for Benin!

Run for Benin is a yearly Materialise event to collect money for Benin, a country in West Africa. The run is hosted annually at Materialise HQ, but this year Materialise Malaysia also took part in hosting a run to help with the fundraising.

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Benin Summer School Week 4: All Good Things Must End

Jamie Milas, Pascale Notté
September 23, 2014
Benin Summer School Week 4: All Good Things Must End

It was hard to believe that our time in Benin was already coming to an end. You could feel that the “heat was on” as every student worked on their computers every minute that was possible. They all clearly were dedicated to their projects and hoped they would be selected for one of the three available scholarships. 

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Benin Summer School Week 2: Female Role Models, Prosthetic Hands, Garde Malades

Jamie Milas, Pascale Notté
September 09, 2014
Benin Summer School Week 2: Female Role Models, Prosthetic Hands, Garde Malades

After an amazing first week of brainstorming with the students, we were happy to begin to really work on the projects with the selected 8 students. It was an incredibly busy week as we went around to cities all over Benin to conduct research, but very exciting to work on the details of the projects and to work with the students on developing their project management skills. The progress of each project and personal development of each student have advanced in just these first two weeks and we’re looking forward to seeing how the next two weeks will go. But let’s first give you an update about the Benin Summer School’s second week…

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Benin Summer School Week 1, Part 2: Get to Know Some Projects

Elizabeth Boorman
September 04, 2014
Benin Summer School Week 1, Part 2: Get to Know Some Projects

Now that you've read our previous blog post and learned about the Benin Summer School and how the 8 students in the summer school were selected, here’s a bit more information on some of the projects a few of the students are working on.

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