A reference you can check, and a community board you can trust
EduFabTech is two things under one name. A publication about technology and education where every claim links to its source. And a free, global board where students find rooms, flatmates, second-hand things, jobs, events, travel companions and friends — with no fees, no money passing through the site, and nothing following you around the web.
A small, independent site run by one person.
EduFabTech is operated by an individual in Istanbul, not a company, and it is not funded by advertising or by anyone with a stake in what it says. The operator's name and address are on the legal notice, as the law asks. Articles are written and checked with the help of an AI assistant and reviewed by the site's editors; they carry the site's name, and the site answers for them. Everything members post is theirs, under their own names.
Students move. Finding a room, a flatmate or a friend in a new city should not cost money or trust.
The sites that do this for students usually charge, sell your attention, or fill up with fake profiles. We wanted one that does none of those things: a board where posting is free, where members talk to each other on the site without giving out phone numbers, where the numbers you see are real, and where the rules are written down and enforced the same way for everyone.
What you can do here
Read
Articles and news on technology and education, every claim sourced; a guide to universities worldwide; and city pages with sourced guides for students — housing, second-hand, jobs, study spaces, events. Plus free tools that run in your browser: calculators, a function plotter, a unit converter, statistics and physics simulations. No account needed.
Find a room or a flatmate
Listings for rooms, flatmates, second-hand things, jobs, study spaces and events. Post what you offer or a wanted ad for what you need. Every listing runs for seven days; messages stay on the site, so your email and phone stay private.
Travel and host
Announce a trip and let members in that city offer a bed, a coffee or an invitation. Open a home card to host others. Make a plan, and after it happens write each other a reference. How it works.
Exchange
One box for anything you offer or look for: a place to stay, a house or pet sit, a home swap, a seat in a car, a language partner, company for an activity. Type it in plain words; the site sorts it.
Meet people
Friend matching by interests and what you are looking for, with private things shared only when you choose. Circles for a city, a country or an interest. And tables: six members of one city who do not know each other, one evening.
The rules we hold ourselves to
Nothing between members is paid through us
No fees, no commissions, no paid promotion, no payment step between members. A price on a listing is a text that two members read; anyone who asks you to pay EduFabTech for a listing, a stay, a job or anything arranged between members is a scammer, and every listing page says so.
Funded by readers
No advertising, and no sponsor touches what we publish. EduFabTech is paid for by its operator and by readers who choose to support it through an independent payment platform. Support buys nothing editorial — no article, no placement, no vote.
No fake accounts, no fake stories
We do not create fake members, fake listings or invented success stories to make the site look busier than it is. When a city has three members, the page says a few members live here. Every number you see here is real.
Sourcing comes first
Every substantive claim in an article links to a primary or authoritative source; statistics name the institution and the year. City guides cite at least two live sources. If something cannot be sourced, it is not published, and corrections are marked on the page rather than hidden.
Nothing follows you
No advertising, no third-party analytics, no tracking cookies; even the fonts and maps are served from our own machine. Your messages are never read by staff, your private details are shown only to the people you choose, and closing your account deletes it. The privacy notice lists everything we keep and for how long.
Rules that are written down
The community guidelines say how members treat each other. When something is removed, its author is told which rule it broke and can appeal; moderators cannot decide cases they are part of. How reports and removals work.
Global by default, in English
No country is the centre and none is the audience. Members are aged 16 and over; the parts that bring strangers together in person — hosting, trips, tables — are for adults.
Who it is for
Students arriving in a city they do not know yet, and the ones already there who have a room to let, a desk to sell or an evening to share. Researchers and teachers who need a claim they can follow to its source. Anyone who would rather read something once, carefully, than scroll past it ten times.
402 published articles · 1939 sources cited · 21 polls · 20,843 universities and campuses · 6 members
If we publish something you can show to be wrong, tell us and send the source. The correction is marked on the article itself and the original address keeps working — pretending the mistake never happened would cost more than the mistake. Report a correction.
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Country and city names used in listings come from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Maps and address search use data from OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Maps are drawn with Leaflet. University and campus names and locations come from Wikidata (CC0).