Accreditations

Fab Academy is a fast-paced, hands-on learning experience where students plan and execute a new project each week.

It offers a distributed rather than distance educational model: students learn in local workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connected globally by content sharing and video for interactive classes. The individual labs (nodes) are supported and supervised regionally by supernode sites with more advanced capabilities, expertise, and inventories.

Each student builds a portfolio that documents their mastery of different certificates taken individually and their integration into a final, larger project. These are reviewed by their local instructors, regional gurus, and then centrally to ensure that each student meets global standards and follows evolving best practices.

The Fab Diploma is awarded by the Fab Academy. The Fab Diploma is earned by progress rather than the calendar, for successful completion of a series of certificate requirements. The instructional sequence requires six months to cover, although the time to finish can ranged from that up to a few years.

In the last years, numerous institutions started accrediting the skills developed in the Fab Academy course. Some of these institutions are listed below:

Local Fab Lab	Accrediting body	Country	Credit offered	Status
FabLab Siena	University of Siena	Italy	ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)	active
FabLab Madrid CEU	Madrid CEU University	Spain	ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)	active
Fab Lab Oulu	University of Oulu	Finland	ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) in curricula	active
Fab Lab TECSUP - Instituto de Educación Superior de Peru	Tecsup	Peru	Specialization Diploma	active
Fab Lab Kamp-Lintfort	Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences	Germany	Working on a integration with existing degree programs	active (not credit-wise yet but as a course within our university)
Fab Lab Bottrop	Hochschule Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences	Germany	18 ETCS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)	active
Fablab Digiscope	Paris Saclay University	France	Diplôme d'Etablissement (DE)	Active since jan 2019
Fab Lab Facens	Sorocaba Engineering College (Faculdade de Engenharia de Sorocaba)	Brazil	Specialization	work in progress
Fab Lab Wgtn	Massey University	New Zealand	Masters level	work in progress
Litchee Lab	Shenzhen University	China	TBD	work in progress
Vigyan Ashram Fab-lab	Savitribai Phule Pune University	India	TBD	work in progress
Vigyan Ashram Fab-lab	Indian Institute of Technology	India	TBD	work in progress
Fab Lab FCT	Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia)	Portugal	Certified Specialization Course in Digital Fabrication	active
Fab Lab Barcelona	Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)	Spain	75 ECTS Certified inside a Master Program	active
AgriLab	Unilassalle Polytechnic Institute	France	ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)	work in progress
Fab Lab Powered by Orange	Politechnika Warszawska	Poland	ECTS Overlapping existing courses	work in progress
Aalto Fablab	Aalto University	Finland	ECTS overlay as a set of courses; 21 - 27 ECTS	active in 2021