Bilbao, an international reference in 3D printing projects through the #FABulous accelerator of which bizkaia talent is a member of the managing Consortium

The third meeting of the FABulous community was on 5 and 6 April 2016 in the Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao and brought together 26 innovative business initiatives based on the manufacture of products using 3D printers. Bizkaia talent is a member of the Consortium which manages this European project.

FABulous, the Future Internet Business Acceleration Program for 3D printing Services, brought together the 26 projects selected in the second call opened in Bilbao to present the development of new web services based on 3D printing.

The 26 SMEs and promoters selected in the previous stage defended their projects before an evaluation panel which  choosed the best projects with chances of becoming a business application.

The projects are constantly evaluated to guarantee their viability. Amongst other actions, several projects presented at the meeting, such as platforms which bring 3D designers together, 3D food printing with a revolutionary system to improve culinary creativity and 3D jewellery showing imprints of a baby’s hands or feet.

The selected topics comprise a number of concepts related to Crowd-sourced and Cloud-based Design and Services for 3D Printing, Manufacturing and Logistics Tools and Services, Advanced Content Management related to 3D printing and Mobile Apps and Services for 3D printing.