Code4Europe project aims to bring together all of Europe’s digital skills stakeholders from Youth Education, Civil Society, Digital Industry and Government to implement innovative approaches to the digital upskilling of young people, and create a hugely successful, sustainable, and scalable digital education that will empower all young Europeans to embrace digital technologies and pursue a highly rewarding career in Digital.
With 2030 rapidly approaching and the digital decade target of 20 million ICT professionals in Europe still far out of reach, aims to reimagine, revamp and relaunch EU Code Week, giving it a mandate to drive real change in digital education throughout Europe, focusing on vastly increasing the number of young people who choose digital careers, and emphasising on engaging the entire digital skills ecosystem in a common mission to close the digital skills gap in Europe by tackling the problem at its source. Code4Europe is a 2-year duration project, and it is the administrative name of the financed project that is taking over the stewardship of EU Code Week. The name of the initiative that started in 2016 and will have a duration of 10 years will not change and it will continue to use its existing branding and channels.
Code4Europe objectives focus at massively scale EU Code Week by implementing 450.000 activities, aiming to impact 25 million people aged 6-25 years over the next 2 years, with at least 14.000.000 female participants reported on the EU Code Week website. The consortium consists of 45 committed and passionate organisations representing all the Digital Education & Skills Stakeholder groups needed to grow EU Code Week to unprecedented levels. Led by Junior Achievement Europe, Code4Europe will unite the Education and Digital Skills communities within one integrated EU Code Week programme staying fully aligned with its core values.
CyRIC will be in charge to coordinate one of the 20 national and regional
hubs, that of Cyprus, in collaboration with the EU Code Week Ambassador and the assigned Leading Teachers. Pointing out on the local needs CyRIC will create a dynamic network of central touchpoints for the promotion and dissemination of information about EU Code Week, to empower and expand such impactful activities, that are closer to the local needs and context.