Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse

What Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse does

Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse (La FabNum) is a French non-profit association (association loi 1901) founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, in the northern Île-de-France region. It operates a FabLab co-located within the Maison des Habitants, in a Quartier prioritaire de la politique de la ville, and runs a free 5-month intensive remobilization program for disengaged youth aged 16-25. The curriculum is built around real commissions delivered for city services and partner associations, training participants in digital fabrication (3D printing, laser cutting) and web/media production using tools including OpenSCAD, Inkscape, Canva, Photoshop, and audio/video production software. Since inception, the organization reports having trained more than 160 young people with an 80% positive-outcome rate and delivered over 130 territorial projects.

The organization's business model is entirely grant-funded rather than commercial. Revenue sources are public and philanthropic: Ville de Gonesse (municipal), European Union / PLIE (Plan Local pour l'Insertion et l'Emploi), AG2R la Mondiale (social-protection insurer), and Préfecture de région Île-de-France. Programs are delivered free of charge to participants. Beyond the core youth program, La FabNum operates two additional verticals: Clubs Mémoire Vive (senior digital-inclusion program with AG2R la Mondiale) and Histoires d'Art (cultural-heritage digital tools in partnership with RMN-Grand Palais, inaugurated 2021). A new PLIE promotion launched in November 2025 extends the model to adult reintegration via partnership with AFTRAL, and a 2024 collaboration with E-fabrik and M.A.S adds an adapted-program vertical for people with disabilities. The organization is staffed by 9 employees and is governed as a social-innovation association rather than a commercial entity.

Name

Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse

Legal name

La Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse

Website

https://fabnum.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

La Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse is a French non-profit FabLab running a free 5-month intensive remobilization program for disengaged youth aged 16-25, delivering project-based digital fabrication and web training through real commissions for city services and partner associations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Workforce Development Training

NAICS

Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Dropout Prevention, Re-Engagement & Truancy Intervention Programs (EDAJAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dropout Prevention, Alternative Education & Re-Engagement Nonprofits (BPAGADAL), Arts, Sports & Recreation-Based Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAJ), Youth-to-Adult Transition & Life Skills (Independent Living, Soft Skills) (EDAAAFAN)

Keywords

• Digital fabrication training
• Youth remobilization program
• FabLab services
• Project-based learning
• Community digital literacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Gonesse

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public funding and institutional grants: FabNum operates as a publicly funded social-innovation programme. It receives support from the Ville de Gonesse, Préfecture de région, European Union (PLIE programme co-funded by EU), AG2R la Mondiale (Clubs Mémoire Vive funding), and other institutional partners. No commercial revenue model is disclosed; services are free for participants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

La Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse delivers a free 5-month intensive remobilisation programme for disengaged youth aged 16–25 without diplomas or qualifications, organised around a FabLab (laser cutting, 3D printing, programming) and a Web module (media, video, websites, social networks), plus a Capacités Relationnelles soft-skills module. Learners complete concrete projects commissioned by Ville de Gonesse services and partner associations. The organisation also runs weekly Clubs Mémoire Vive citizen creative clubs for local residents and cultural partnerships such as Histoires d'Art à Gonesse with RMN-Grand Palais.

Product overview

Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse (La FabNum) is a public innovation center that operates primarily as a 5-month intensive remobilization training program for disengaged youth aged 16-25. The organization functions around a FabLab (Fabrication Numérique) equipped with digital fabrication tools and operates entirely in 'project mode,' where young learners complete concrete projects serving the Ville de Gonesse and partner associations. The training curriculum is organized into three core modules: Fabrication Numérique (laser cutting, 3D printing, programming), Web (media-video, websites, social networks), and Relational Skills (media training, interpersonal skills, networking). Additionally, the organization runs weekly Clubs Mémoire Vive citizen clubs and manages collaborative art projects like 'Histoires d'Art à Gonesse' with RMN-Grand Palais.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FabNum 5-Month Intensive Remobilisation Programme A free 5-month intensive remobilisation training programme for disengaged youth aged 16–25 without diplomas or qualifications, structured around three pedagogical modules — Fabrication Numérique (laser cutting, 3D printing, programming), Web (media, video, websites, social networks), and Capacités Relationnelles (media training, soft skills, networking) — with learners completing concrete projects commissioned by Ville de Gonesse services and partner associations.
• FabLab (Fabrication Numérique) Digital fabrication laboratory embedded inside the Maison des Habitants in Gonesse, equipped with laser cutters, 3D printers (Prusa i3, BQ Witbox, Longer LK4 Pro), computers, and supporting software (OpenSCAD, Ultimaker Cura, Inkscape, LaserCut), enabling hands-on project-based learning in a community setting.
• Clubs Mémoire Vive Weekly open community creative clubs (held Wednesday mornings, 10h–12h) at the FabNum premises, providing local residents with a free space to create, share, learn, and meet through collective digital and creative projects spanning themes such as memory & expression, creation/repair, games/arts, and solidarity/environment. Funded by AG2R la Mondiale.
• Histoires d'Art à Gonesse Cultural workshop and media programme developed in partnership with Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais (RMN-Grand Palais) under the QPV cultural scheme supported by the Préfecture de région, offering 340 activities across six art-history themes (Portrait, Objet, Paysage, La Conquête, Le Mouvement, La Couleur) with 2,720 participants reached, and culminating in a public art trail of 5 artworks and 3 mediation stations inaugurated on 18 September 2021 during European Heritage Days.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% of trained young people achieve positive outcomes (return to training, employment, or business creation) within 6 months
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais (RMN-Grand Palais)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Since 2017, RMN-Grand Palais has partnered with FabNum on the Histoires d'Art à Gonesse programme, a cultural project for Priority Urban Policy neighbourhoods (QPV), supported by the Préfecture de région. The programme ran 340 activities across 6 art-history themes, with a public art trail inaugurated in September 2021. Five artists were commissioned, and FabNum learners conducted all the video interviews as part of Promo 12.
• Ville de GonessecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Ville de Gonesse is the host and primary institutional partner. FabNum is physically located in a city-owned facility (Maison des Habitants), and city services are the primary commissioners of real-world projects for learners. The city supports the programme operationally and refers participants.
• E-fabrikcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerE-fabrik is a collaborative challenge that pairs young people with people with disabilities to co-design digital solutions for everyday accessibility needs. FabNum learners participated in approximately 20 workshops with residents of the M.A.S (Maison d'Accueil Spécialisé), producing a custom interactive LED clown figurine to support motor skill development for Dylan.
• M.A.S (Maison d'Accueil Spécialisé)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe M.A.S is a specialised residential care home for people with disabilities. FabNum partnered with M.A.S through the e-fabrik programme, where learners co-created a custom assistive device (interactive blinking clown) for a resident named Dylan.
• Quinzaine en Actions / Quinzaine des CinéastesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA cultural access programme that facilitated FabNum learners' participation in a screenwriting and filmmaking workshop at Cinéma Jacques Prévert de Gonesse, involving professional filmmakers. Anna from Quinzaine en Actions co-organised the workshop.
• Cinéma Jacques Prévert de GonesseminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe local cinema hosted a screenwriting and filming workshop for FabNum learners. Professionals from the cinema (mediator Elisa, filmmaker Mouloud, screenwriter Lisa) mentored learners to produce short films on the theme of capitalism. The cinema also hosts film festivals for which FabNum has produced trophies.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• France Travail (ex-Pôle Emploi): French national employment agency coordinating unemployment benefits, training pathways, and job placement. The institutional context and main referral channel for FabNum's mission, though it is a payer/regulator rather than a direct training deliverer.
• AFPA: France's leading national vocational training organisation offering reskilling and qualification pathways for adults and jobseekers. Broadly comparable as a major training provider serving unemployed populations, though operating at national scale with paid curricula rather than free community-based social-innovation programmes.

Direct peers

• Missions Locales: French public network of local youth-guidance organisations supporting 16-25 year-olds with re-engagement, training, and employment pathways. Directly comparable in target demographic and youth-inclusion mission, though typically broader career-counselling services rather than hands-on digital-fabrication training.
• Webforce3: French digital workforce-reintegration programme training unemployed adults in web/digital skills with employer-placement focus. Comparable free training-to-employment model for vulnerable populations, though more focused on adult career-changers and direct employer placement than FabNum's youth-first remobilisation pedagogy.
• Simplon: French social enterprise running free digital and web-development training programmes for underrepresented populations including youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Comparable free-to-learner digital remobilisation model, though with a coding/web focus rather than FabNum's broader fabrication + web + soft-skills mix.
• Emmaüs Connect: French nonprofit tackling digital exclusion among vulnerable populations including youth, seniors, and jobseekers. Directly comparable digital-inclusion mission for disadvantaged populations, though oriented toward basic digital literacy and equipment access rather than project-mode fabrication training.
• Apprentis d'Auteuil: Long-established French foundation supporting at-risk youth through education, training, and family-support programmes. Comparable mission of re-engaging disadvantaged young people via structured pedagogical programmes, though delivered at much larger scale and across residential, school, and training settings.
• Écoles de la 2e Chance (E2C): National French network of 'second-chance schools' dedicated to 16-25 year-olds without diplomas or qualifications. Directly comparable target demographic and re-engagement mission to FabNum, though delivered through more conventional classroom-based vocational curricula rather than a project-mode FabLab.
• E-fabrik: French collaborative challenge pairing young FabLab learners with people with disabilities to co-design digital solutions. Already an active partner of FabNum, the model directly overlaps in combining youth digital-fabrication skills with measurable social impact for vulnerable populations.

Regional players

• La Plateforme: Marseille-based digital FabLab and innovation hub offering digital-fabrication and coding training programmes. Comparable FabLab-enabled digital-skills training model, but focused on broader tech education and located in southern France rather than Île-de-France.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fabnum
• Facebookfacebook.com/fabnum.gonesse
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fabnum-gonesse

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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