Schmiede Hallein provides a basic cooperative prototyping environment and an infrastructure full of impulses and passionate people. It is a festival where media and art come together, allowing international artists (professional and amateur) to join a networking community to work on projects focused on arts, hacking and entrepreneurship. 

The festival is aimed at creative professionals and students from all over the world, who during 10 days are invited to meet each other, share ideas and projects and participate in diverse activities, such as workshops, talks, showcases and performances, giving them new ideas, new points of view, and new tools of inspiration for their creations. 

In addition to these activities, participants have time to talk about their ideas and work on their own projects, creating a large exchange network, not only for ideas but also for culture. These types of activities stimulate the creativity of the participants, and allows people from all over the world to work together with other artists to create performances and develop projects in areas such as music, photography, cinema, dance, literature, games, among several fields linked to creativity. 

The event also has the Mini Schmiede edition, aimed at kids, where during two days the children have the opportunity to develop their creativity and productivity by creating robots, built with motors and components taken from electronic devices. 

One of the main goals of this mini event is to develop activities where children can disconnect from the interfaces they use every day, focusing on other aspects of technology such as engineering and handcrafts. In this way, children have the opportunity to stimulate their creative interaction, their independence, and their interpersonal relationships, developing technical and mental tools in a fun way. In the end, the robots face each other in dance or resistance contests, giving the children a purpose for their creations in addition to developing technical and creative skills.