The mission of WINFAB to the University is twofold. Being part of the Louvain School of Engineering, the educative mission of WINFAB is naturally permanently present. For students at UCL, WINFAB represents a unique opportunity to get in touch with the world of micro and nano fabrication, and to experience themselves the practical work in a clean room environment with high tech equipments.

In combination with its educative mission, WINFAB is also active in research. The technological platform is accessible to PhD students and researchers from various fields (micro-electronics, materials sciences, solid state physics,...).

Another aspect of the mission of WINFAB is to make available to the society a performant platform of tools. Local industry can take advantage of the high technology and knowledge of WINFAB to develop and/or improve novel products and techniques. WINFAB also ambitions to reach an active position in existing and future networks of similar institutes.