The organizations involved in the project “MakIN Teach – MAKerspaces for INnovation in TEACHing practices” share the mission of supporting students/learners in their path of growth, education and inclusion into today's society. All project partners have educational underachievement (especially in theoretical disciplines) and early school leaving of their students as common problems. The objectives of this project arise from inquiries that teachers/educators of each organization have carried out at local level on the two aforementioned issues. The teachers/educators involved have found worrying rates of educational underachievement and early school leaving (the results per country are: IT 22% and 27%, ES 20% and 19%, BG 40% and 13%, EE 12% and 11%). In addition, they have found that this worrying situation is linked to the didactic methods currently used, which are often static and not adequate to involve the students/learners with educational difficulties. The teachers/educators involved believe that it is crucial to develop more attracting teaching methods and more real-life related learning environments. They also believe that Makerspaces and FabLabs (and the rapid prototyping technology used in these spaces) can support the teaching staff in this change. In detail, the project “MakIN Teach” integrates the Do It Yourself (DIY) philosophy, typical of these spaces, with the Activism theory and the related ideas of “experience learning” and “active learning”. By implementing these concepts, the consortium wants to exchange good practices in using rapid prototyping techniques, tools and spaces in the fields of education and training with the purpose of supporting teachers/educators working with students/learners showing poor educational results in theoretical subjects (e.g. mathematics, biology, geography, history, language, communication etc.).In detail, “MakIN Teach” has the following target groups:- teachers and educators working with students/learners showing poor educational results in theoretical subjects, which will be directly involved in the training events and other project activities;- makerspace/FabLab staff, which will be involved in activities aimed at introducing the “rapid prototyping technology” in education and training;- students/learners with poor results, which will benefit from inspiring and innovative learning environments.To reach the project objectives, the partners have planned three short-term joint staff training events and one student learning activity, which will provide the opportunity to have practical experiences in Makerspaces/Fablabs both to teachers/educators and students/learners. Here the titles of the transnational activities:- first training activity: “FabLab/Makerspace 101 – modelling of teaching artefacts”;- second training activity: “How to create teaching artefacts by using rapid prototyping tools and machines”;- third training activity and first student learning activity: “Turning the FabLab and Makerspace into the new classroom”.The consortium consider these transnational activities as the starting point to build a fruitful and durable network of Education Institutions and Makerspaces/FabLabs both at a local and European level. Through the transnational activities and the related local work teams’ activities, the partners will collaborate in generating ideas, materials and experiences and in collecting them in an interactive e-book containing tutorial video-clips, pictures, texts, exercises, artefact designs and information about rapid prototyping technology and the integration of the FabLab/Makerspace into the traditional teaching practices.At least 35 teachers and educators and at least 12 students/learners will participate in the transnational training/learning activities. During the local work teams’ activities, at least 100 teachers and educators and at least 90 students/learners with poor educational results will be involved.“MakIN Teach” has the following expected results:– increased teachers and educators’ ability in integrating the rapid prototyping technology into the traditional teaching practices and in using innovative and more involving learning environments;– to have opened the classrooms by fostering networks between education institutions and FabLabs/Makerspaces both at an European and local level;– to have Increased students/learners' ability in developing new forms of practical reasoning for theoretical subjects and notions;– to have provided elements, information and expertise to reconsider the current and traditional educational environments;– an interactive e-book providing information and material to facilitate the integration of rapid prototyping technology and FabLabs/Makerspace into the traditional teaching practices;The project partners are AFP Patronato San Vincenzo (IT), I.E.S. Juan Ciudad Duarte (ES) Tallinn Polytechnic School (EE), Transit Projectes (ES) and Center for Creative Training Association (BG).