MAKER FAIRE TRIESTE 2026 ( 9 - 10 May 2026 )

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Dear ICTP community!

We would like to extend to all staff, researchers, students, fellows and 
friends of ICTP our invitation to be part of Maker Faire Trieste 2026 
(smr 4215) by playing an active role in its success!

This 13th edition of this classic event will be held on _Saturday 9 and 
Sunday 10 May in Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia in Trieste_ and it will be 
co-organised as always by the ICTP and the Comune di Trieste. Internally 
to ICTP, the organisation of the event will be under the fablab team 
(STI section) with the assistance of many other admin offices and it 
will receive a financial contribution of 30K Euro from Regione Friuli 
Venezia Giulia and 35K euro from Comune di Trieste.
The opening time for the public will be 12:00–20:00 on Saturday and 
10:00–18:00 on Sunday. This year the event is again held in May, with 
the aim to facilitate a broader participation of schools.
Like in the past editions, as part of the event (focused on ingenuity 
and creativity, inventors and makers) there will be a "scientific 
village" named Science Picnic, with exhibits, demos and interactive 
activities for the young public, broadly open to all fields of science 
and STEM education. As you know, this year is also the Centennial of our 
founder Abdus Salam, and therefore is even more important for us to 
showcase ICTP activities to the local community of Trieste and the whole 
region (usually the MFTS attract around 20 thousands people from all 
Friuli Venezia Giulia and beyond).

As usual, the event will be family-friendly, free and open to everyone, 
and we hope you’ll contribute to fill it with fun and new things to 
discover!
You can personally contribute by:
- Organising a laboratory/activity/demo with the public within the ICTP 
booth (maybe just for an hour or so, or more times spread in the two 
days): it would be really great to have many hands-on activities, 
representing all ICTP research fields! Talks and slideshows/posters 
aren’t really ideal for the location and the “interactive” spirit of the 
event.
- Displaying and explaining an interactive scientific exhibit or 
experiment in your own booth (or as part of the ICTP one) for the whole 
duration of the event. The staff of the fablab will be happy to assist 
you in building your exhibit, if needed.
- Helping us by joining our volunteer/staff team, we always need more 
hands, feet and heads to run such a rich and fulfilling event :-)
- Spreading the word about Maker Faire Trieste and Science Picnic to 
your friends and communities!

All details and participation info are here: 
https://trieste.makerfaire.com/ and you can always come to talk to the 
organisers in the fablab at the lower level of E. Fermi building (ext. 5317)

Let's Celebrate Science, Creativity, Technology and Ingenuity together!

For the Maker Faire Trieste Team,
Carlo Fonda, Gaia Fior

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Unit - ICTP Scientific FabLab - 
Maker Faire Trieste

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