Open Repair Data Standard updated
Posted onThe Restart Project, on behalf of the Open Repair Alliance, is happy to announce the release of a new update to the Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) – v0.3. Read More
Project news
Exploring our consumption emissions
Posted onAs part of the activities for International Repair Day, Restart ran a webinar and produced a podcast exploring the problems with our consumption emissions with Professor John Barrett. Read More
ShaRepair General Assembly
Posted onWe finally met each other in real life at the General Assembly in Delft. After almost 2 years online meetings, meetups and workshops, all project partners could work together to make SHAREPAIR work. Read More
Belgian Right to Repair campaign highlights importance of professional repairers
Posted onA survey Repair&Share commissioned at the end of 2020 showed that professional repairers of household appliances are a dying breed in Belgium. High prices for spare parts, tools and software, as well as labour-intensive work, make it difficult for them to keep their head above water. Read More
Repair Maps as the start of a collective mapping of repair actors in Europe
Posted onRepair Maps is a collective exercise that gathers and presents data from professional repair shops, repair cafés and other repair organisations in Europe. Read More
Repair Connects adds value in Apeldoorn
Posted onSHAREPAIR tools are convenient. Repair Connects is an online tool matching broken devices with repairers. A few weeks ago, the repair cafe in Apeldoorn officially launched the tool with a cool new website. Read More
Survey repair sector Flanders: remarkable results
Posted onAccording to professional repairers of household appliances repair is not economically profitable. In December last year, some of you took part in a webinar where Repair&Share presented the survey results of the repair market in Flanders. The study, conducted by Möbius, as well as our policy recommendations are now available. Read More
Citizen survey Repair Connects shows opportunities for digital repair platform after COVID-19
Posted onAs repairers on Repair Connects are getting more and more broken items repaired, we decided to do a first round of evaluation of the project towards the owners of these broken devices. How did they experience the process, and how would they like to interact with Repair Connects in the future? Read More
Make printers last longer!
Posted onThe Restart Project and Repair&Share participated in an action of the European R2R campaign in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Our message was: Europe urgently needs to show more ambition to make printers more durable and repairable. Read More
Podcast: How 3D printing can help us repair
Posted on3D printing technology is increasingly being used to aid repair, especially in the creation of spare parts. The Restart Project talked to two experts about their work in the field and how 3D printing can help solve the e-waste crisis. Read More