At the makerspace, concepts and equipment for humanitarian work are created
In Europe's first makerspace for the humanitarian sector, our operational experience flows into the development of new technical solutions and concepts. With the help of creative minds from our network, cooperation with universities and the support of companies, we develop solutions to make humanitarian aid even more effective. There are only a few metres between the project idea, the first draft and the workbench.
Areas of work
In our makerspace we are equipped for all specialist construction projects. Our areas for wood and metal processing as well as our soldering stations and CNC milling machines offer extensive possibilities for implementing planned projects.
Open Source
Everyone should be able to make use of our solutions. In accordance with the Open Source concept, the ideas and projects developed in our network can be used, copied and further developed by others.
Disasters, crises and conflict come unexpectedly and every situation is different. Working in the humanitarian field therefore means reacting fast and flexibly. This means working under extreme conditions, both for the teams and for the equipment. In order to be able to provide optimal support at all times, innovation and creativity are required. And they find plenty of room in our Crisis Response Makerspace.
Mobile and modular concepts are our specialty. We also apply these principles when designing treatment places for our patients. In the makerspace, such a treatment place is created with the associated equipment that is easy to assemble and transport.
CADUS provides sustainable humanitarian aid, including the correct treatment of infectious medical waste. In cooperation with students of the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, an incinerator is currently built in the makerspace that is easy to transport and therefore suitable for use in dynamic crisis situations. Of course, it complies with the WHO standards for the incineration of medical waste.
Our experience from the mission in Mosul is combined with the skills of students and engineers in order to develop in the makerspace the optimal emergency toilet for our crew in areas of crisis. The mobile and easy to build toilet follows the standards of the WHO and is located in the large subject area WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
Targeting new heights with the Airborne Emergency Response Unit (AERU)! After countless drop tests in the makerspace, we finally succeeded in dropping our emergency boxes from an airplane in Switzerland. We continue to work on bringing our mobile and modular concept by air exactly where help is needed most urgently.
See Life Sensor
The shower truck was developed for the WASH sector (water, sanitation and hygiene). Together with our other deployable vehicles, it is available to other organisations for the support of refugees as part of our European Border Support Initiative. We are looking forward to your inquiries via info@cadus.org.
In the winter of 2018, another reconstruction took place in the makerspace: in record time, many helping hands transformed an Iveco transporter and a pickup truck into a mobile clinic and brought them on their way to Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Sarajevo we used it to provide medical support to refugees for four months.
CADUS became involved in northeastern Syria at an early stage, encountering a dynamic war situation with rapidly changing fronts. Based on this experience, we planned and built a mobile hospital. With its help we were able to save many lives in Mossul, Iraq (https://cadus.org/en/article/291). The mobile hospital is now on the road with our partner organization in Syria. During the reconstruction of the two Magirus Deutz 4WD-trucks we moved into the S-Bahn bend directly at the Spree River, where our makerspace is at home now.