The idea
Children in primary school dream up a machine. Nothing is ruled out for being impractical, which is the whole point of asking them first.
Entrepreneurial culture
A child invents it.
Others build it.
MyMachine teaches young people to be enterprising without ever using the word, by having three schools build one invention together.
Who they are
Small dreams, big ideas.
A child in primary school invents a dream machine. Students in higher education work out how it could actually be made. Pupils in secondary school build the working prototype. One machine, three schools, one school year.
None of it is presented as a business lesson. It is co-creation between generations who meet as equals, and what it leaves behind is creativity, confidence and the habit of working with people unlike you.
- Who it is for
- Children and students, from primary school to higher education
- How it works
- One dream machine, three schools, one school year
- Where
- Flanders and Brussels, inside an international network of chapters
Why we fund them
Enterprise, taught without the word.
Pulse funds MyMachine to stir the spirit of enterprise at an age when nobody is thinking about business yet, through an approach that is concrete, playful and ambitious at the same time. A child who watches their own idea become a real object has learned something no lesson delivers.
The support goes to the work as a whole, in Flanders and in the international foundation. Over 2026 to 2028 it is also there to make the organisation less dependent on any one source of money, and to let its network of chapters grow abroad without losing what makes the method work.
What they run
Three steps, one machine.
The design
Students in higher education take the idea seriously and work out a concept that could be built.
The prototype
Pupils in secondary school build it, and it works. The child who invented it sees the thing they imagined standing in front of them.
In their words
Someone who lived it.
Thanks to MyMachine I learned that you really can make your dreams come true.
Film and photographs
Dream machines at the palace.
Go further
Bring it to your school.
MyMachine works with schools at all three levels. Their site says how a school joins, and MyMachine Global carries the international network.
