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We are currently witnessing the multiplication of new technological training spaces in universities: the FabLabs. Their educational vocation is to break with the traditional transmission of knowledge and to offer spaces dedicated to “learning by doing”. The study presented in this article analyses training action configurations that can be identified in a university FabLab. It was conducted on the basis of the socio-technical approach developed by Albero (2010a/b/c) in order to identify the working conditions that could potentially generate learning and transformation among students using the UBO Open Factory. Empirical research was conducted to access the different modes of engagement that prefigure the activity of FabLab users (students in initial and in-service training, teacher-researchers, dedicated staff). Three training action configurations were studied: a) remobilization times for training content, b) progress reports on the status of students’ projects, c) informal communication actions. The results illustrate that FabLab-type environments, by virtue of their capacity-enhancing potential, encourage, under certain conditions, the realization of a collaborative action that is undoubtedly destined to be a driving force in universities: co-development.