First activities in the Code4Europe project
First activities in the Code4Europe project
📅  11 October 2024 – Brussels
The European Commission supports EU Code Week as part of its strategy for a Digital Single Market and the Digital Education Action Plan with the goal is to help more young people to master the basics of coding and computational thinking. This year marked from the 1st of July the take over of the responsibility of a new mega consortium with 40+ partners led by JA Europe for the annual EU Code Weeks launched in 2013 by the European Commission´s Young Advisors for the Digital Agenda Europe.
ECWT presentation of Nordic Regional Hub planned activities 2024-2025 at the
Code4Europe Kick-off meeting in Brussels 11 October 2024.
In 2024 EU Code Week took place between 14 and 27 October and the evaluation of this year´s activities is ongoing there are, however, some new elements worth to highlight:
The consortium has set the ambitious goal
- To scale the Digital Education and Skills communities to impact 25 million young people over a period of two years (1st July 2024 – 30th June 2026) and sustain EU Coding as a continuous all year round activity
- To bring together the a multi-stakeholder based ecosystem through establishing National and Regional Coding Hubs
- To continue and reinforce the Code Week Ambassadors Network
- To present new innovative tools and services unlocking the creativity of young people
- To launch a new award for Role Models in Coding and Computational Thinking from 2025
- To run a focused Girls in Digital social media campaign in 2025 and 2026
Nordic Women in Tech Award (NWITA) winners & ceremony in Oslo, 13th of November 2024
ECWT´s first half year involvement in the Code4Europe project included:
- Contributing to the Kick-off meeting on the 11-12th September in Brussels
- Taking the initial steps to launching of the Nordic Regional Hub and preparations for the planning meeting to take place in Copenhagen the 9-10th January 2025
- Showcasing of the Code Week 2024 activities in the Nordic Countries which included: both physical and online events in Denmark (5), Finland (44), Norway 45), Sweden ( 38).