International Repair Cafe webinar well-attended
Nearly 120 Repair Cafe volunteers from Europe and North America attended the first international Repair Cafe webinar on Friday 7 July. This online event was…
HP hosts first Repair Cafe at product manufacturer
Printer and laptop manufacturer HP in Boise, Idaho, US, hosted an in-house Repair Cafe for and by employees in June. According to Repair Cafe International,…
Friday, July 7: international Repair Café webinar
Do you want to exchange experiences with Repair Café repairers and organisers in other countries? And do you want to hear how fellow volunteers across…
NBC’s Today Show features Repair Cafe
NBC's Today Show kicked off Earth Day weekend last Friday with a special segment about Repair Cafe! Volunteers from several Repair Cafes in the Hudson…
RepairMonitor: replacing a part is most common procedure
Replacing a part most often fixes broken items brought to a Repair Café. The second most popular procedure is cleaning, followed by stitching a seam.…
EU finally proposes right to repair
With a delay of almost six months, the European Commission is finally coming up with plans to regulate the right to repair. Under the proposal,…
More and more Repair Cafés celebrate tenth anniversary
Repair Cafés are not one-day wonders: more and more Repair Cafés are celebrating their tenth anniversary. In the Dutch city of Eindhoven, their anniversary was…
BBC film about Repair Cafe movement
BBC Earth has released a short film about the worldwide Repair Cafe movement. For this film, local camera teams shot at three locations: in Amsterdam…
UK university offers PhD studentship on Repair Cafes
The University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK, is looking for a student to research Repair Cafes. The university offers a three year studentship, in…