“CODE-N-SOCIAL: Promoting Social Inclusion through Coding and ICT skills” is a European cooperation project aimed at providing access to quality IT learning and helping people at risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) to get out of the education-poverty trap where they are kept due to prejudices and low quality IT education.
AIMS:
- To inspire people at risk of social exclusion to consider careers in the digital technology market
- To compare good practices, showcase inventions, developments, innovations, etc. coming from the community of people at risk of social exclusion
- To build an innovative curriculum and to enable people at risk of social exclusion to improve their confidence through a new learning and role modeling programme
- To broaden the horizons of the target learners to experience innovation being inspired by the experience of others in a similar situation
- To support the education and training community to empower in a motivational way those at risk of social exclusion through ICT up-skilling and confidence building
OUTCOMES:
- Online learning platform as a competence and confidence-building open educational resource for introducing persons at risk of social exclusion to the world of coding
- Curriculum for familiarizing the target group with coding/programming and other basic technological skills
- Capacity building course divided into e-learning modules in line with the learning units described in the Curriculum
- Guidelines presenting ICT competence and confidence development as an empowerment tool for people at risk of social exclusion
- Video gallery with stories and role model presentations to inspire and overcome the ICT gap for the socially excluded
For more information on the project, please visit www.codensocial.eu or contact info@code-n-social.eu