“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.

CODE-N-SOCIAL will give guided introduction to coding to those persons AROPE who need support, encouragement to fight prejudices and make a first step in entering the IT world, or even recognizing that their passive IT-user skills can be transferred into valuable competencies for the labour market.

The project is funded under the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2017-2019.

TARGET GROUPS:

• people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including disabled people, victims of domestic violence, young people 18-30 years old, people over 40 years of long-term unemployment, non-EU immigrants, etc. (people AROPE)
• teachers, trainers, mentors, etc. working with people at risk of exclusion
• NGOs working with disadvantaged groups and adult education institutions

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:

1. 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
2. Curriculum for familiarizing the target group with coding/programming and other basic technological skills
3. Capacity building course divided into e-learning modules in line with the learning units described in the Curriculum
4. Guidelines presenting ICT competence and confidence development as an empowerment tool for people at risk of social exclusion
5. Video gallery with stories and role model presentations to inspire and overcome the ICT gap for the socially excluded

PROJECT PARTNERS:

Asociacion de Personas con Discapacidad Verdiblanca (ES) – coordinator

Innovation Training Center, S.L. (ES)

Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum (RO)

Sc DirectWeb SRL (RO)

KU TU EOOD (BG)

Formazione Co&So Network (IT)

Institut Regional d'Insertion Professionnelle et Sociale (FR)

Project website: www.codensocial.eu

Financial support: European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme
Duration: September 1, 2017 - August 31, 2019