Nearly 50.000 repair attempts registered
Posted onThe Open Repair Alliance is happy to announce the release of its 3rd set of Open Repair Data. Read More
Project news
Online repair is possible
Posted onGiven the current circumstances, face-to-face repairs are temporarily not possible. However, tools such as Repair Connects can be used to connect users who wish to repair an object with volunteer repairers. Repairs are therefore carried out online, using video conferencing tools. Read More
Repair Connects welcomes new groups to version 2
Posted onRepair Connects is a simple online tool for Repair Cafés, that matches broken devices of citizens in their region, to repairers in their group. Since it is temporarily not possible to organise Repair events, this platform wants to offer an alternative and can eventually become an extension of the repair movement. Read More
Open Repair Data Standard published
Posted onThe Open Repair Alliance published in December the new version of its Open Repair Data Standard. Read More
Votes at EU level for a Right to Repair
Posted onDuring the months of October and November 2020, Repair&Share has worked hard together with its partners from the Right to Repair Europe Campaign in order to keep the pressure high at EU level to ensure an ambitious Right to Repair. Read More
How We Celebrated Repair Day 2020
Posted onIn an unprecedented year, this International Repair Day, volunteers and businesses alike came together to celebrate repair. The theme for this year was ‘repair is essential’ and the support that was shown by our community and further afield highlighted just how true this is, especially this year. Read More
Repair&Share in Leuven together with Trashbeatz
Posted onIn the context of International Repair Day on 17 October 2020, Repair&Share organised a march in Leuven together with the musicians of Trashbeatz. Watch the exciting video! Read More
Over 42.000 data records aggregated and shared by the Open Repair Alliance
Posted onWhile community repair groups around the world have been forced to put their events on hold for the last few months, all members of the Open Repair Alliance continued to work on updating information and data collected until now... Read More
Maakbaar Leuven launches Repair Connects
Posted onCorona inevitable has a major impact on repair activities. Maakbaar Leuven, Stad Leuven and Statik have launched Repair Connects, a platform that matches consumer's broken devices with repairers willing to get in action, out of their own houses. Read More
COVID-19 brings bad luck: Repair & Share Fest and Repair is THE FUTURE Conference are postponed.
Posted onDue to the Corona virus that is spreading in Europe, the first big events for repair organisations and consumers are being postponed. Read More