In late December, MyMachine Wallonie (Belgium, Europe) organised two Work-In-Progress events. A key step in our methodology: primary students discover the concept models of their Dream Machines, developed by higher education students. A moment full of exchange, creativity and inspiration, where ideas come to life! The moment when university students understand that working for brutally...
Higher Education Students go through an amazing hands-on experience of their future jobs:– They learn to listen to their customer, in this case, the Primary School Child (a very demanding customer, by the way).– They learn to use their own knowledge and know-how to translate the idea into a concept. – They learn to take...
Last week, we announced that MyMachine Wallonie’s (Belgium) creativity is hitting an all-time high, now, we’re here to touch base on MyMachine Flanders & Brussels’ kick-off. Because the new MyMachine season in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium has also started! Students in primary schools in all provinces of this region have been invited to invent...
MyMachine Wallonie (Belgium)’s creativity hits an all-time high! The new MyMachine season in the French-speaking part of Belgium has started! Students in primary schools in the provinces of Liège and Luxembourg have been invited to invent their Dream Machine. Anything goes, as long as they really, really want it. These children remind us —the adults—...
This is the kick-off of the new MyMachine Liège (Belgium) season! No, it’s not. It’s MyMachine Wallonie from now on! After initiating MyMachine in the province of Liège, we’re now ready to grow. In this coming year, there will be schools joining in the province of Luxembourg as well. Both Liege and Luxembourg ar part...
This video teleports you to MyMachine Liège in Belgium (Europe). You’ll discover inspiring testimonies from all MyMachine stakeholders! Students in primary, technical secondary, and higher education, industry professionals, and educators all explain how they experience MyMachine. Thank you so much to our amazing MyMachine Liège team at Basse-Meuse Développement!
The vibrant city of Liège (Belgium, Europe) provided the vibrant space for a vibrant celebration party of vibrant students, educators and sponsoring companies! Yes, that’s a lot of ‘vibrant’! Obviously, the child-inventors know the Dream Machine they’ve been working on with their team. But then they get to discover the work of all the other...
It was an extraordinary day full of creativity and wonder. 130 child inventors had the opportunity to discover the scale models of the machines they imagined. These scale models are made by university students from HELMo – Gramme and HEPL – Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège. Watching the eyes of the ‘clients’ (the...
The metropolitan area of Liège (Belgium, Europe), with 1.1 Million inhabitants, has developed a roadmap for the future. And MyMachine is part of it! The objective of Liège Cap 2030! is to identify strategic priorities and structure projects to be implemented by 2030. Based on an in-depth diagnosis, the decision has been made to make...
This is how it looks like when grown-ups take the ideas of children seriously! University students, university professors, and industry professionals all come together to discuss the vast potential of all these profound ideas for new Dream Machines. University Students from HELMo – Gramme and HEPL – Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège testified...
From Primary School Students of course! A new school year has started in Belgium. A couple of weeks in, this means that ideation starts for sourcing new Dream Machines! MyMachine Liège has launched the participating university students to go into the primary class with the open-ended question: “What Is Your Dream Machine?”. Anything goes, as...
We’re excited to share this testimony, shot by MyMachine Liège (Belgium). Clément, a student at Gramme University in Liège, describes his MyMachine experience in one word: déroutant, which means baffling in a very positive way. He explains how participating in MyMachine is out of the ordinary and excitingly out of your comfort zone. Thank you...
This excellent brand new video in French, is made by MyMachine Liège (Belgium). You’re taken on a tour by an elementary school child who explains beautifully the three steps of the MyMachine methodology. All of which is captured with authentic footage taken from past year’s run of MyMachine Liège. Thank you so much to our...
“MyMachine gave me the vision that entrepreneurship should be about improving the life of others”, says Ferdinand de Meeûs d’Argenteuil on stage at the annual Donors Assembly of Pulse Foundation. This event in Brussels, Belgium, annually gathers the donors of the Pulse Foundation to exchange insights on the importance of entrepreneurship. We were honoured to...
Child-inventors, university students, vocational/technical secondary students, teachers, professors, ministers, and other stakeholders gathered in Saive, Belgium, last week for the final exhibition of this year’s run of MyMachine Liège (Belgium). While they obviously know the Dream Machine they worked on, all involved could discover all the Dream Machines, like the Arathe-Shoe-Cleaner-Spider, Holographic-Alarm-Clock-Poke and the Interactive-Trash-Can....
We were so busy last year that we forgot to celebrate reaching a 7 figure milestone: 💪🏼1 Million student-hours of building creative confidence! We’re now at 1.3M, which is like going to school* for 738 years. * Not just any school, but probably the most creative Dream Machine School on the planet. The MyMachine Co-Founders Filip Meuris,...
MyMachine Liège is building the working prototypes! The 3 steps in MyMachine are not divided. Students from primary, vocational/technical secondary, and university level co-create the Dream Machines! Here’s a great example of that from MyMachine Liège (Belgium). Last week, the technical secondary school l’Athénée Royal Princesse Elizabeth organised a workshop for the primary school children....
Right before the winter break, something amazing happened in Liège, Belgium! The Work-In-Progress Event by MyMachine Liège invited the Primary School Students to visit the university. As inventors, they are the customers to cater. This event invites these demanding and brutally honest customers to giving feedback on the designs elaborated by the University Students. On...
A brand new MyMachine Cycle just took off in Liège, Belgium (Europe). Students from Helmo Gramme University have entered primary classes to ask the children our open-ended question: “What Is Your Dream Machine?”. What happens next is magic! Yet again, the children have invented a myriad of Dream Machines! It is appealing to see so...
Belgian RTBF made a wonderful documentary on MyMachine Liège! They have documented the MyMachine process, from the viewpoint of the participating Primary School Students. Images show what happened in the primary class, at the university, and at the vocational/technical secondary schools. At the end of a MyMachine Cycle, the working prototypes are presented at the...
Imagine sitting in the class, and the teacher is asking you a question, but you don’t feel like answering it. Now, we have the solution: this Dream Machine is called “Willy”. Push the button, and it randomly points to one of your peers in class who needs to answer the question in your place! In...
MyMachine Liège (Belgium, Europe) has been endorsed in this leading business magazine Trends-Tendances. The article states that “aeronautics is fighting to retain its talents. While the entire industry is fighting to attract technical and scientific profiles, aeronautics is still idling and fears a talent drain”. The article features an interview with Clarisse Ramakers from Agoria, the...
In June, all involved students visited the MyMachine Liège exhibition (Belgium), showcasing the drawings, and of course the working prototypes of the elaborated dream machines. But what a thrill, as they were now able to visit the exhibition for a second time. This time round it was part of SAMS – Salon Des Métiers de...
The primary school of Warsage (Belgium) joined MyMachine Liège (Belgium) past school year with 2nd grade students. They have published their whole experience into this great webpage. It tells the story of how they lived through the adventure from ideation to the building of an actual working prototype with the help of older students. Thank...
What a marvellous day this was! MyMachine Liège (Belgium) just finished their very first cycle, building 6 dream machines, uniting over 160 students from many different schools in Liège. While co-creating their dream machines, all these students learned the power of creative and entrepreneurship. At the end of this cycle, the results -the original drawings,...
The first 4 primary schools in Liège (Belgium) have entered the MyMachine Liège stage! University students of the Master in Industrial Engineering entered the primary classrooms to invite the children to invent their dream machine. This Thursday additional primary school classes will be visited to start the ideation. We can’t wait to hear about the first...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we can share that a new MyMachine Chapter will start: MyMachine Liège. Liège is a part of the French speaking part of Belgium (La Wallonie; The Walloon Region), to the east of the country, bordering with The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg. We have signed a contract with Basse-Meuse Développement,...
