Events

Join the EU Code Week Hackathons and Compete on the European Stage!

Are you ready to put your coding skills to the test, work as part of a dynamic team, and create…

CodeWeek’s First Community Gathering in Spain

Bringing Programming to Classrooms The CodeWeek project, led by Junior Achievement, aims to integrate programming into classrooms across Europe. Recently,…

Black Friday: A Day of Deals, Culture and Capitalism

Black Friday has evolved into a global shopping phenomenon, but its roots are less glamorous. The term first emerged in…

How coding and CGI have transformed horror films: A Halloween special

Horror films have always been about pushing boundaries — whether that’s scaring audiences with monsters, exploring the unknown, or showcasing…

Uniting Europe Through Code: Highlights from EU Code Week 2024

This year’s EU Code Week was nothing short of amazing, with a vibrant array of activities lighting up the entire…

Empowering the Future: Highlights from the EU Code Week 2024 Launch Event

    The EU Code Week 2024 Launch Event was streamed live from Brussels on Friday 11 October 2024 afternoon.…

Join Our LIVE Play-Alongs with Minecraft Education During EU Code Week!

Are you a teacher looking for an easy and engaging way to introduce your students to the world of coding…

Hackathons: Benefits for Innovation, Collaboration, and Skill Development

Hackathons are fast-paced, collaborative events where programmers, developers, and tech enthusiasts gather to create or improve software solutions, usually over…

EU Code Week 2024 Launch Event: Join Us in Celebrating Over a Decade of Coding and Digital Excellence!

The countdown to EU Code Week 2024 is on, and we are thrilled to invite you to join us for…

Intel AI Global Impact Festival: Students innovating for a better world

In the last few years, the online buzz around AI has largely focused on the rapid evolution of language models…

Spread the word: DigiEduHack is recruiting host organisations for its 2024 edition!

Digital Education Hackathon (DigiEduHack) aligns with the goals of EU Code Week, as it promotes digital skills and innovation, while…

EU Code Week Online Community Meeting: Driving Digital Literacy Forward

On 18 June 2024, the EU Code Week Online Community Meeting brought together educators, school leaders, and digital literacy advocates…

Code, Connect, Create: Celebrating Europe’s Digital Innovation

As we celebrate Europe Day on 9 May, there’s no better time to reflect on the remarkable ways in which…

Celebrating Innovation: Highlights from the EU Code Week Hackathon Award Ceremony

On March 8, the EU Code Week International Hackathon 2023 came to a thrilling conclusion with the Hackathon Award Ceremony.…

Empower Your Classroom: Join EU Code Week Teach Day 2024

Get ready for a transformative experience as EU Code Week Teach Day returns on Saturday, 9 March 2024! This online…

Unlocking Innovation: EU Code Week Teach Day 2024

Exciting news is on the horizon for educators and tech aficionados alike. The much-anticipated EU Code Week Teach Day is…

Behind the Lines of Code: Insights UNYO, EU Code Week Hackathon Winner

We are really excited to share with you a glimpse into the minds of these young coding experts, of course…

Join EU Code Week in celebrating Computer Science Education Week

During the week of 4-10 December 2023, we will be celebrating an event that resonates deeply with the very core…

Unleash Your Creativity: Join the EU Code Week Webinar on Open Roberta Lab

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming EU Code Week webinar, marking the grand finale of 2023. On Monday 11…

CoCo webinar to present a “co-creative” computing platform for children

Exciting news for educators, parents, and tech enthusiasts as EU Code Week proudly announces an upcoming webinar: “Meet CoCo: A…

Tech Triumphs: Winner announced in EU Code Week Hackathon Final!

EU Code Week Hackathon Finale 2023 Last Friday marked the culmination of the EU Code Week Hackathon, and we are…

EU Code Week Hackathons 2023: the Grand Final

As the EU Code Week Hackathon series 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on the remarkable journey that unfolded…

From Player to Creator during EU Code Week

Every child should be able to create their own world while having a positive impacton  the world. “Code To Create”:…

2nd Student Hackathon of EU Code Week in Greece

The Second Greek Code Week Hackathon of 2023, held in Greece, was a collaborative effort between the European Commission and…

Empowering the Future: Highlights from the Latvia Code Week Hackathon 2023

The Latvia Code Week Hackathon 2023, held under the theme “Empowering STEM: Bridging the Gap in Education and Career Readiness,”…

Italy Code Week Hackathon 2023: Bridging the Gap between Dreams and Reality

The Italy Code Week Hackathon 2023, which took place on 2-3 October, was an inspiring showcase of young talents and…

Navigating Innovative Technologies across the Curriculum with an EU Code Week MOOC

In today’s rapidly evolving world, technology plays a pivotal role in shaping education. As educators, it’s essential to stay updated…

Digital Children’s Rights Workshop: Save the date!

In a world where technology shapes the lives of children and young people, it’s imperative that we understand and safeguard…

Fostering Youth Digital Skills across Europe webinar: Save the date!

In an era defined by digital transformation, the development of digital skills among Europe’s youth has indeed never been more…

EU Code Week Community Meeting: Shaping a Digital Future

The EU Code Week Community recently came together for a momentous face-to-face meeting in Brussels on August 31 and September…

Empowering youth for a sustainable future through coding

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, shaping the world we live in and revolutionising industries. Consequently, in this era…

EU Code Week: Skilling youth for a transformative future 

Every year on 15 July, World Youth Skills Day emphasises the strategic importance of equipping young people with the necessary…

Announcing EU Code Week Webinar: Computer-Generated Poetry with Scratch

Are you ready to explore the intersection of technology and creativity? Join us for our second EU Code Week webinar,…

An Introduction to metaverse

By Adil Tugyan, EU CodeWeek Ambassador for Turkey The term “metaverse” has been around for several decades, but it has…

Join us for the First EU Code Week Webinar: ‘Exploring the Metaverse: An Introduction’

EU Code Week is excited to announce the first in a series of webinars aimed at exploring the world of…

Europe Day: Celebrating unity and diversity through coding

Every year on 9 May, Europeans celebrate Europe Day to commemorate the anniversary of the historic Schuman Declaration, which proposed…

May the code be with you: Teaching code with Star Wars

Are you struggling to get your students excited about coding? Have you tried all the usual approaches, but still can’t…

Empowering Young Women and Girls: Celebrating Girls in ICT Day 2023

Girls in ICT Day 2023 is taking place on 27 April, and this year’s theme is “Digital Skills for Life”. The…

Code your way to happiness: celebrating International Happiness Day with code week

International Day of Happiness is a day to think about the importance of happiness and well-being in our lives. On…

MOOC Unlocking the Power of AI in Education Live Events

The new EU Code Week MOOC Unlocking the Power of AI in Education has just started! Sign up if you…

Code Week 2022 wrap-up in numbers

The statistics for Code Week 2022, the tenth anniversary of the biggest coding initiative in Europe, are available, and the…

If Only Python Were My Mother Tongue 

As we celebrate International Mother Tongue Day, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on the unique linguistic world of…

Celebrating Love and Coding: The Story of Code Week and the Code Week Community

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate love! .. and at EU Code Week we have a love story…

Celebrating the Contributions of Women in Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science is a special day that celebrates the achievements and contributions of women…

LET’S EXPLORE THE WORLD WITH ARDUINO!

By Cires Anna Maria, EU Code Week Ambassador Republic of Moldova  As a teacher of computer science and Robotics I…

Fun and interactive activity with Ozobot!

By Daniela Grecu,  EU Code Week  Leading Teacher in Romania   As a teacher of Informatics and ICT in a secondary school,…

A STEM activity

By Stamatis Papadakis, Code Week Ambassador Greece  To celebrate EU CODE WEEK, I prepared a STEM activity for the 1st-grade…

Citizen Code Python

By Ornella Marcotullio, Code Week teacher in France   Citizen Code Python is a free educational game that allows you…

Edu-hackathon with Google in collaboration with Code Week

From 1 to 3 December, 17 educators from 10 different countries got together in Brussels for the short training course…

Morse code with Micro:bit in the Public City Library Nova Gradiška, Croatia

Kristina Slišurić, leading teacher, Croatia  This year’s initiative-related activities were organised during Code Week, together with numerous activities that were…

Celebrate the holidays with Code Week!

The end of year holidays are almost upon us. The kids will soon be home from school with lots of…

CSEdWeek shines light on progress in computer science education

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual call to action to inspire students from kindergarten level to the final…

Count down to the holidays with Code Week!

In the run-up to the holidays, a Code Week advent calendar will run on social media on 1-24 December 2022.…

Coding and cooking, similar more than you think!

Stefania Altieri, Code Week Leading Teacher in Italy  During a recent interview, I was asked for suggestions about resources suitable…

The secret of the encrypted book at Public City Library Nova Gradiška, Croatia

By Kristina Slišurić, Code Week leading teacher in Croatia  EU Code Week is a great initiative which brings coding, programming…

Digital Literacy in the Netherlands: the Dutch are crossing the borders

By Ramon Moorlag, Code Week ambassador in the Netherlands  Digital literacy will become soon – the date has not been…

The online Maze Game

By Marija Bogatinovska, Code Week Leading Teacher in North Macedonia   Greetings to all coders from the 4th grade pupils at…

European Code Week: an opportunity to innovate in the classroom

Francisco Javier Masero Suárez, Code Week Leading Teacher in Extremadura, Spain  On Monday 10 October 2022 at 17:00 we held a…

Europe Code Week 2022 and sustainable development

By Sanja Pavlovic Sijanovic & Davor Sijanovic, Gymnasium Vukovar, Leading Teachers in Croatia  During Europe Code Week 2022, at our…

The sights of my country: a quiz game in Scratch

By Thomai Margariti, teacher at Primary School of Katerini Greece  The reason I came up with this initiative was, on…

Where are the healthy foods?

Nélia Gomes, EU Code Week teacher at Escola da Guarda AE Dr. Vieira de Carvalho, Portugal   I was responsible for…

An original STEAM lesson

By Dorina Marin, EU Code Week Leading Teacher in Romania  To celebrate World Space Week, I prepared an original STEAM lesson for…

‘The slightly different math lesson’: Math problems and coding concepts for beginners

By Margot Schubert, coding teacher in Munich, Code Week Leading Teacher in Germany  Since we first participated with our primary…

Code Week School Label in the Netherlands

By Ramon Moorlag, Code Week Ambassador in the Netherlands  Friday October 7th was all about the Code Week School Label.…

CodyColor with FabriLamb

By Fabrizia Agnello, Code Week Leading Teacher in Italy  Hi, I’m Fabrizia Agnello: my surname Agnello in italian means lamb,…

Opening speech at Code Week Hungary Conference, October 8th

By Attila Főző László Zsolt Jánossy, EU Code Week Ambassadors in Hungary  “We wish all weeks of the year would…

Birthday Challenges

By Maria Tsapara, Msc, PhD Cand. Univ. West. Macedonia, Early Childhood Educator, Leading Teacher EU Code Week, Scientix Ambassador, ICT…

A board game to engage more girls in coding

By Alexandros Kofteros, Leading Teacher in Cyprus  Research has shown that girls surpass boys when it comes to reading and…

Life-saving coding with Fifi the llama

By Matt Hewlett, Community and Education Lead at digit<all>  The digit<all> charity, which provides creative computing training for teachers and…

Steps through Europe

By Diana Gheorghe, teacher in Ploiești, Romania  The ‘Steps through Europe’ event, which I coordinated, involves second grade pupils from…

Coding for all: bringing Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot teachers and students together through coding

By Alexandros Kofteros, EU Code Week Leading Teacher Cyprus  Cyprus is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, but with a…

Design a cute interactive Shoulder Pet robot

Pets of all shapes and sizes are becoming more and more common in homes around the world, and signs saying…

Getting Turkey coding

By Zehra SAYIN Preparations are underway in Turkey for Code Week 2022. Turkey’s Ministry of National Education, in cooperation with…

Code United, a coding camp for kids

Today, we happily present to you a unique project sharing the same objective and vision as EU Code Week in…

EU Code Week Spring School 2022

In April 2022, the Code Week team will launch the third Code Week School for teachers! Following the great experiences…

The first edition of Arab Code Week

Inspired by the EU Code Week, the Arab Organisation for Education, Culture and Science (ALECSO), in cooperation with the Tunisian…

The 9th edition of the EU Code Week sets new record: More than 76.000 activities and counting

The hot phase of EU Code Week took place 9 – 24 of October and ended with new record numbers.…

EU Code Week ends with a new record in activities

More than 73,650 coding activities had been added to the map, as of 25 October, breaking last year’s record of…

Team Strassium from Slovenia wins the EU Code Week Hackathon 2021

Teams from Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Slovenia competed in the EU Code Week hackathon final on 14 October…

Happy EU Code Week – Kick-off

EU Code Week kicked of yesterday with a striking event and launched its 9th edition. Packed with creativity and inspiration,…

European Commissioners celebrate EU Code Week

European Commissioners celebrate EU Code Week by highlighting the value of acquiring digital and technological skills for the younger generations.…

Code Week – Highlights of #TeachDay

#TeachDay – Interactive workshops and inspiring speakers  On Saturday the 22 May 2021, we gathered for our first #TeachDay, moderated by #CodeWeek coordinator Annika Ostergren…

Sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences

Samuel Branco, Computer Teacher in high secondary school, EU Code Week Leading Teacher, Portugal  EU Code Week organized an online…

Apply now for Meet and Code funding for your Code Week events

Now in its fifth year, Meet and Code 2021 returns! Registrations are now open for local non-profits to apply for…

Code Week Teach Day

New Online Conference for teachers on 22 May 2021 On 22 May, educators, teachers and coding enthusiasts can join a one-day virtual meet-up.…

Code Week Austria – Digitalisation in School

Interview with Code Week Ambassador for Austria, Andrea Mayr-Stalder   Over 3,000 Code Week activities were organised in Austria last…

EU Code Week 2020 in numbers 

By Annika Östergren Pofantis, EU Code Week coordinator, European Commission  In 2020, EU Code Week organisers registered 72.700 activities – the…

Junge Tüfter, EU Code Week and Magenta Moon – adventures of the digital world

by Mailis Bauch, Junge Tüftler, Berlin   From October 17th to November 1st, the event “Magenta Moon“, powered by Deutsche…

How Meet and Code 2020 looked like?

The outcome of this year’s edition exceeded our expectations. In 2020, Meet and Code extended its reach, included new countries,…

Code with your MEP – online workshop in Scratch with members of the European Parliament

To make digital literacy a part of Europeans’ skillset has been on the agenda of the EU for a while,…

Teaching granny how to code – online workshop in Greece

On 17 October 2020, Alexander Innovation Zone S.A. and the GREEK COMPUTER SOCIETY (GCS), Division of Macedonia-Thrace organised the webinar…

Code Week moves ahead in the Netherlands, with micro:bit webinars for teachers

by Pauline Maas, Code Week leading teacher in the Netherlands   This week, as part of EU Code Week (2 weeks…

Tips to Run a Perfect EU Code Week 2020 Event From Turkey

October’s Best Fun! Written by Adil Tugyan – Code Week Ambassador For Turkey   In Turkey, October is one of…

Code Week 2020 in Germany

by Nora Perseke, Code Week Ambassador from Germany Code Week goes regional Germany has a lot of very enthusiastic coding…

How to use coding to boost students’ vocabulary and discussion skills

By Yana Tsykunkova, English language teacher from Ukraine Usually, coding never goes beyond computer science lessons. As a simple, visual…

Coding with Minecraft: Education Edition

by Fatma Bouaziz, Computer science teacher, Minecraft Global Mentor and Europe Code Week Ambassador from Tunisia Minecraft: Education Edition is…

The effects of coding on pre-primary students

by Leticia Gil Ramos, preschool teacher in Spain Numerous experts share the idea to introduce Computational Thinking (CT) in the…

More Coding, More Girls!

by Selçuk Yusuf Arslan, computer science teacher in Turkey Why I started this project It is a popular notion that…

Practising proper netiquette with micro:bit

by Imen Taktak Marzouk, EU Code Week Ambassador in Tunisia Digital technologies provide us with a world of possibilities at…

Distance learning with coding

by Stefania Altieri, EU Code Week Leading Teacher in Italy Most of European schools were closed because of Covid-19. This…

Golden Age Project: An Example of Technology Integration to Learn History

by Francisco Masero Suárez, Code Week Leading Teacher from Spain   The Golden Age project is a kit of activities…

Let’s code and play in Scratch: “Questions and Answers”

By Elka Veselinova, a seconded teacher by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education to teach Mathematics in the English section of…

Is it love or just Python? How to develop a love calculator using a simple algorithm in Python

by Ivana Vezjak, ICT teacher at Elementary school August Šenoa Osijek, Croatia  We have a new EU Code Week in…

Tell your own story with Scratch! An activity to try at home during lockdown

By José María Díaz Fuentes, a Scientix ambassador and teacher in Physics, Technology and ICT at the Salesian School Santo…

16 EU Code Week activities to inspire your next lesson in coding

by  Dorina Marin, EU Code Week Leading Teacher from Romania My involvement in the EU Code Week campaign was a…

Original online coding treasure hunt from Italy

By Annika Östergren Pofantis, EU Code Week Team Stefania Altieri is one of the Italian Leading teachers. She developed an…

A look back on the Code Week 2019 Student Meet: developing projects to protect the environment in Malta

During Code Week 2019, students from Malta, Finland and Spain participated in an online meeting where they presented the Code…

A look back on the Code Week 2019 Student Meet: students become coding teachers in Finland

During Code Week 2019, students from Finland, Spain and Malta participated in an online meeting where they presented Code Week…

A look back on the Code Week 2019 Student Meet: students lead video game design in Spain

During Code Week 2019, students from Malta, Finland and Spain participated in an online meeting where they presented Code Week…

Look back on the Deep Dive MOOC – Module 3 : Visual Programming Languages, Scratch & Co.

Back in October, over 4200 teachers enrolled in Code Week’s Deep Dive MOOC. This free online course offered teachers the…

Primary schools students code and dance their code in Genova Italy

By Anna Maria Rigon, teacher at Govi primary school in Genova, Italy In 2019, Govi primary school, belonging to Sturla…

An entire school participates in Code Week!

By Angela, Code Week Teacher in Italy     As part of Code Week, our school, the Second Comprehensive Institute…

Let’s Code in Albania

By Erviola Konomi, Leading Teacher in Albania This activity was held at High school “Zhani Ciko”, Patos in Albania, Our…

Storytelling, Yoga and Coding

By Natalia Rekic Muci, Code Week Teacher in Serbia It is not easy to find authentic English materials for the…

EU Code Week 2019 in numbers

By Jakub Kajtman, EU Code Week Team member, European Commission In 2019, EU Code Week broke new records with more…

My first experience with the CodeWeek4All Challenge

By Fátima, Code Week Teacher in Portugal My name is Fátima, a Portuguese Teacher of Lower Secondary Students and Grown-Ups.…

Involve pupils of different ages and make them cooperate!

By Katarina, Code Week Teacher in Croatia Our teachers Katarina and Ivana designed different activities in which students from 5th…

Learning about various regions in the world through coding

By Ivana, Code Week Teacher in Croatia For the first participation of our Primary School Dora Pejacevic Nasice to EU…

EU Code Week 2019 at Primary school ”Josip Kozarac” in Soljani, Croatia

By Marina and Adrijana, Code Week Teachers in Croatia The students from grades 1 to 8 of our Primary school…

Holiday paper circuits with EU Code Week

Did you know that participants of the Code Week Deep Dive MOOC learned how to create their own paper circuits…

Programming a pedometer to bring coding to Physical Education class

By Ivana, Code Week Teacher in Croatia 6th-grade students of Primary School Čavle (Croatia) participated in EU Code Week 2019…

Family Coding Day – EU Code Week celebration in Luxembourg

By Madhumalti, Ambassador for EU Codeweek Luxembourg @Technoport – incubator for start-ups On a rainy Sunday afternoon, we were thrilled…

The Golden Quest activityfor EU Code Week 2019

A short interview of Amine Lajmi and Adrien Elkaim from Coding Park, by Daniele Valli of Fédération de Paris de…

A COLOUR MAKEY MAKEY

By Santiago, Code Week Teacher in Spain A colour Makey Makey is an activity designed for students to review colours.…

LEGO MAZE – UNPLUGGED ACTIVITY

By Aurora, Code Week Teacher in Slovenia Every year we try to involve as many pupils in coding activities as…

Good morning, Rob!

By Marlene, Leading Teacher in Austria In our school with 350 children, the kids forget more and more to greet…

Europe Code Week @ Veria Central Public Library

By George from the Veria Central Public Library (Greece) For the first participation of the Veria Central Public Library (Greece)…

Unplugged programming with Hotwheels

By Kristina, Code week teacher in Croatia In primary school „Matija Gubec“ Cernik, I have planned a lot of different…

Unplugged Coding – Logical Puzzle

By Maria, Code Week teacher in Italy In the nursery school of the Margherita Institute of Bari, children aged 4…

First time participating in Code Week

By Cyril, Code Week Teacher in France Code Week 2019 For the first year, the DANE of Versailles (délégation académique…

Coding sessions for all

By Bernadette, Code Week Ambassador in Malta The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) https://www.mcast.edu.mt/ is an important…

A week full of challenges and activities during #petrikcodeweek

By Éva, Code Week Leading teacher in Hungary This year we celebrated EU Code Week with a full week of…

From unplugged activities to using mBot in 3 differents classes

By Anita and Marina, CodeWeek Teachers in Croatia The 4th, 5th and 6th-grade students of our Elementary School “Antun and…

CodyFeet and storytelling

By Stefania, EU Code Week Leading Teacher in Italy CodyFeet is an unplugged game born from an idea of Annalisa…

The #petrikcodeweek Escape Room

By Éva, EU Code Week teacher in Hungary Our school is located in the capital, Budapest, we are a vocational…

Luleå Game Create by Luleå Makerspace

A workshop series by Luleå Makerspace to learn computer game design and programming. By Peter Parnes, EU Code Week Teacher…

Using Scratch to create an animation during a pictures editing class

By Mirjana Code Week Teacher in Serbia     This year, Sveti Sava Primary School (Nis, Serbia) is taking part…

CodingDay in Vienna – A kick-off for Code Week in Austria

By Andrea, Code Week Ambassador in Austria It was about a year ago when I received an invitation to a…

Robot programming with Java – European workshop in Munich

Peter Kirchhoff, EU Code Week Leading Teacher in Germany     As part of an Erasmus+ Project, a group of…

Creating a city collaboratively combining creativity and STEAM

By Rosa María, Code Week Teacher in Spain     A city called Chiquituá is a project born from another…

LOOKING FOR A TRUE COLOR

An unplugged activity for children aged 6, to learn the names of the colours. By Jelena, Code Week Teacher in…

EU Code Week – Programming, Robotics and Rights for Girls

By the Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva On the occasion of…

Hands on English class using Scratch to practice dialogues

By Ana, code Week Teacher in Portugal I teach English in Casal de Cambra – Portugal. For me, coding is…

Unplugged activity with Pief Aepas students

By Joaquim, Code Week Teacher in Portugal Last July I was given the chance of being a part of a…

Catela coders in action

By Paulo, Code Week Leading Teacher in Portugal This year we started coding activities in our Catela Gomes school. All…

Students across Europe learn Swift to unlock new opportunities

By Apple   This October, in classrooms across Europe celebrating EU Code Week, students of all ages are living proof…

From unplugged activities to dancing on Scratch

By Mihael, Code Week teacher in Romania In our school in Romania, we experiment coding with our students for the…

Introducing the Binary System in a Pixel Puzzle-like activity during an English lesson

By Alejandro Contreras, Code Week teacher in Turkey The activity was designed having in mind students from secondary grades, ages…

#CodeWeekJam: Let’s gather all the games created during Code Week 2019!

By Matthias (EU Code Week Ambassador in Germany) In the last years, we noticed a lot of activities during EU…

A summer school for the future

By Dorina Marin (EU Code Week Leading teacher in Romania) Between 9 and 12 July 2019, 25 primary school Leading…

TEACH FOR THE GREATER GOOD

By the British Council When two primary school students, from a small town in Serbia (Lazarevac), Nina and Tijana, first…

Congratulations to Europe Code Week Google Grants Awardees!

By Google for Education The European Commission predicts that in the next 10 to 15 years, 90 per cent of…

Code my city – Transforming classrooms into real innovation labs

By Fay Giannarou (Unit of Innovation and Best Practices, Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction, Greece) This innovation project was organized by…

International Scratch Day 2019 celebrations take place in classrooms all over Europe. In yours too?

By Margaux Gillebert, EU Code Week Team Celebrations around International Scratch day on the 11th of May happen all over…

International Girls in ICT Day

by Zoe Brunet     Girls in ICT Day is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of April and…

Engaging 1 million people in EU Code Week from Turkey

by Zehra Sayin, Code Week Turkey Ambassador     Turkey has been participating in EU Code Week since 2014, with…

Robots into Orbit – Building and Programming robots that help people to survive in Space

by Bart Boeykens – EU Code Week Leading Teacher For different schools in Bornem, a town in the Dutch-speaking part of…

Get excited and innovate! – Creative use of coding in Finland

by Kati Sormunen, Innokas Coordinator and EU Code Week Ambassador, Finland. Winter in Finland is rough for an animal who…

Diversamente Coding

by Spyros Blatsios. Diversamente Coding is an international partnership promotes coding and digital skills to people with hearing difficulties. EU…

EU Code Week 2018 breaks all-time record, with 2.7 million participants and nearly 44,000 events

Young people from all over Europe are showing a growing appetite for coding activities, robotics and computational thinking, as the…

EU Code Week story  from Tunisia

This year marks the real beginning of EU Code Week in Tunisia. With the nomination of two EU Code Week…

EU Code Week is going global: a story from Argentina

  We are from Beth School in Argentina. We were very excited about being part of the EU Code Week…

The skills of the future for schools: YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP and Fondazione Golinelli together for the EU Code Week

In 2018, it was for the second time that YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP (YNAP) and Fondazione Golinelli participated in Code Week.…

Code Week 2018 reaches new records and takes place in 72 countries

EU Code Week 2018 has proven to be the most successful to date. The total number of activities registered is…

“We are coding”: a teacher’s story from Turkey

  I am Burcu Yüksek, a pre-school teacher from Adana working with students aged between 4 and 5. This year…

Code Week inspires kids and teachers in Ukraine

Across Ukraine, school children in their classrooms, their teachers, students and adults took part in Europe Code Week. Some 80…

New all-time record for EU Code Week: more than 25,000 activities on the map

Get your bubbles ready. Today we celebrate. It took only 6 days to break the all-time record: with over 25,000…

Machine learning helps teachers to teach coding

By Kristian Langborg-Hansen, Danish Code Week ambassador The teachers in the Triangle Region in southern Denmark can look forward to…

European Commissioners Gabriel and Navracsics encourage EU Education Ministers to involve all schools in EU Code Week 2018

Today the European Commissioners Mariya Gabriel, responsible for the Digital Economy and Society, and Tibor Navracsics, responsible for Education, Culture,…

How to start a coding club for young people – Free online CoderDojo course

By Pete O’Shea, CoderDojo Foundation and Irish Code Week ambassador CoderDojo has just launched a free online coding course which…

Malta participation in EU CodeWeek reaches most Maltese students

By Bernadette Zerafa –Manager, eSkills Malta Foundation, EU Code Week coordinator Malta     Malta’s participation in the 2017 EU…

84 high school girls learn coding at Rails Girls Cluj-Napoca, Romania during Code Week

By Oana Sipos, Romanian Code Week ambassador Rails Girls is a movement that started in Finland about 6 years ago…

Slovenian coding super school

By Katja K. Osljak, Slovenian Code Week Ambassador I would like you to meet the coding super school from Slovenia –…

Celebrating the 5th Birthday of Codeweek EU in the UK

by Yasemin Allsop, Codeweek EU Ambassador This year’s Code Week EU kick-off event in the United Kingdom, took place at…

Happy 5th birthday EU Code Week 7-22 October 2017!

Europe Code Week was born in 2013 by some young people who advised the European Commission on digital policies: Alja…

Hello Open Minds: Vienna is celebrating Open Source

By Nico Grienauer, Austrian CodeEU Ambassador, Drupal-Austria Deputy Chairman, Founder acolono GmbH Austrian Open Communities are joining forces to award projects and create…

Apply now for Google grants for innovative Code Week events for children aged 5-18

By Marielena Ivory, Pre-university CS Education Outreach, Google At Google, we want all students to have an opportunity to engage…

Teachers thirst for knowledge of coding in Northern Ireland

By Michael O’Kane – Heads up Coding and computing with iTeach and Eruopean CodeWeek Ambassador The thirst for knowledge of…

Meet Janne Elvelid – co-founder of EU Code Week

This year EU Code Week celebrates 5 years. Janne Elvelid  was Young Advisor to the Digital Agenda and is one of…

Happy 5th birthday EU Code Week 7-22 October 2017!

Europe Code Week was born in 2013 by some young people who advised the European Commission on digital policies: Alja…

European Commission #WomenInTech celebrates Ada Lovelace birthday and codes a sports app

By Joanna Lindberg, Women in Tech policy officer and co-coordinator of EU Code Week at the European Commission We need…

Serbia among top 10 #codeEU countries – Organises 195 events during Europe Code Week

By Caba Veres, Serbian Code Week Ambassador Around 150 elementary school kids gathered in Belgrade Startit Center to mark the beginning…

EU Code Week ambassadors showcase coding activities at the launch of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition

Yesterday, EU Code Week ambassadors, Alan McCullagh (France), Mags Amonds (Ireland), Evgeni Minev (Bulgaria), Cindy Smits (Belgium), Rosanna Kurrer (Belgium)…

100 teachers in Catalonia, Spain, learn programming with App Inventor

On Saturday 15 October 2016 the first Catalan European Code Week event took place. It was the 2nd edition of…

Mind boggling 20,000 #codeEU events during Code Week 2016

    Congratulations all event organisers! More than 20,000 coding events were organised for EU Code Week 2016 in Europe…

We are the children of the (digital skills) revolution

The landscape of the working world has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. Industries have transformed and technology has…

European telecentres celebrate EU Code Week

Today’s society and economy are constantly changing due to the advances of technology and coding and programming skills are becoming…

Google grants to 46 EU Code Week projects that introduce students to computer science

While digital competency quickly becomes one of the most important prerequisites for getting a job, too few students have access…

“I decided to run a programming club”

My school, Ursuline College in Sligo, encourages 5th year students to run lunchtime clubs for first years to help them…

Google grants 2016

To spread the excitement about Europe Code Week, Google is offering grants (up to 4000 EUR) to organizations who want…

Meet Xiangqun Chen – EU Code Week ambassador in China

In 2015 EU Code Week reached more than half a million people in 46 countries around the world. Today we…

Programming of an Arduino board, using the application Scratch for Arduino

This video was recorded during the Europe Code week in October 2015. It demonstrates the programming of an Arduino board…

EU Code Week 2015 highlights from Hungary

The ICT Association of Hungary (IVSZ) promoted  and coordinated the Code Week activities, which goals were: To reach more students,…

Thousands of kids, young adults and adults try out coding in 48 countries around the world.

Celebrating how to create with code during Code Week has spread world-wide this year.  48 countries are participating. Apart from…

MORE TO COMPUTING THAN CODING…by Miles Berry

Miles Berry is the principal lecturer in computing education at the University of Roehampton and board member of UK ICT…

Get Involved with EU Code Week Online @openSAP!

Since 2013, EU Code Week has attracted a large number of participants and promoted coding to a young target group.    …

Three silver and a bronze medal for the young Croatian Informatics

by Ivana Ružić, EU Code week ambassador for Croatia On Saturday, August 1, the final ceremony and award of medals…

Coding prevails in Norwegian elections by Øystein Imsen, EU Codeweek Ambassador for Norway

    The Norwegian code movement had its political breakthrough in the recent local election campaign. In the close race…

Interview with Eva Hu and Mari Luz Aguado, the main developers of Dr. Scratch by Jesús Moreno León

  Eva Hu and Mari Luz Aguado are the main developers of Dr. Scratch, a tool that allows young programming…

Interview with Tonko Sabolčec, a young programmer from Croatia by Ivana Ružić

Ivana Ružić interviewed Tonko Sabolčec, a young programmer from Croatia.     Can you tell us a little bit about…

Interview with Lauren Boyle, Digital Girl of the Year

Julie Cullen, EU Code Week Irish ambassador interviewed Lauren Boyle, Digital girl of the year. It is wonderful to see…

CODE WEEK 2014 IN DENMARK: A SUMMARY

by Christian Villum, EU Code Week Ambassador   As Code Week swept across Europe, Denmark not only hosted a series of…

Code Week continues: second weekend highlights

    On Friday, we were closing the official Code Week with a post emphasising that Code Week is in…

Commissioner Kroes joins Code Week, #FlagShipGame launched and Ireland back on top

A CoderDojo event in Anderlecht yesterday was attended by European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander de Croo.…

Future EC digital Vice-President Ansip supports Code Week

  Greece passes Ireland in number of events The sheer number of events which take place every day this week…

Launch of the second EU Code Week

The second EU Code Week launches today with 2,000+ events in 38 countries across Europe! When we were planning this…

Check out why the Founders of Spotify, TheNextWeb and Tuenti think you should start coding!

We asked Daniel Ek, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Zaryn Dentzel – founders of Spotify, TheNextWeb.com and Tuenti respectively and…

The story of Computing at School from the UK

On the 30th of September EU Code Week Ambassadors met in Brussels to exchange ideas and talk about how to move…

New promo video for EU Code Week

We have a new promo video for EU Code Week that we hope to get broadcasted as a TV spot…

Meet Patrick Balestra, a young mobile app developer from Switzerland

Gabriella Fumagalli, the Swiss EU Code Week Ambassador interviewed Patrick Balestra, a brilliant student and developer.      Who are…

How to make “making” possible in schools

Mark Shillitoe from Switzerland writes about his personal journey of becoming a maker and his plans for this year’s Code…

Coding map of Europe now features over a thousand events and counting

    The coding map of Europe now features over a thousand events and counting! Thanks everyone for listing your…

Meet the Ambassadors: Árdís Ármannsdóttir, Iceland

Almost 90 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 36 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Gabriella Fumagalli, Switzerland

Almost 90 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 36 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Explore more than 800 events on the coding map of Europe

    2 weeks until the second EU Code Week officially kicks off, and you can already explore more than…

‪#‎codeEU‬ Events Scoreboard

    Did you ever wonder, which country has the most coding activity? Well, now you can easily check by visiting…

Meet the Ambassadors: Paulius Podolskis, Lithuania

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

How Allcancode, an adventurous coding game, came to be

All started back in August of 2011 when I decided to introduce my then 5 y.o. son to computer programming.…

Meet the Ambassadors: Yasemin Allsop, United Kingdom

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

More than 700 events on the coding map of Europe

    And we already have more than 700 events on the coding map of Europe! 200+ events have been…

Meet the Ambassadors: Abayomi Ogundipe, Moldova

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Antonis Hadjiantonis, Cyprus

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Gesche Joost, Germany

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

More than 600 coding events for beginners on the coding map of Europe

    3 weeks before EU Code Week officially kicks off and we’ve already doubled the number of events from…

Meet the Ambassadors: Szabolcs Mizsei, Hungary

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Adil Tuğyan, Turkey

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Laurence Bricteux, France

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Another 100 event have been added to the coding map of Europe

    Another week is over, and another 100 event have been added to the coding map of Europe! This…

Meet the Ambassadors: Kostas Karpouzis, Greece

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Europe Code Week 2014

Europe Code Week 2014     Dimitar Dimitrov, one of our EU Code Week Ambassadors from Bulgaria, recently had a…

Meet the Ambassadors: Lieke Boon, Netherlands

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

Meet the Ambassadors: Alja Isakovic, Slovenia

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who are they…

100 new events joined the coding map of Europe

    In less than a week, 100 new events joined the coding map of Europe, bringing us to a…

CoderDojo is coming to the European Parliament during EU Code Week!

CoderDojo, the global network of coding clubs for kids, which was started in Ireland, is coming to the European Parliament…

Meet the Ambassadors: Alessandro Bogliolo, Italy

Over 70 EU Code Week Ambassadors from 34 countries are helping us spread the word about #codeEU throughout Europe. Who…

National Coding Week launches in the UK

Another great coding initiative from the UK: the first ever National Coding Week for Adults launches this September in a…

Design, Learn, Play: a games’ co-design workshop in Cyprus

The Code RED project and EuroCy Innovations recently organized a successfully a workshop on digital (educational) games’ co-design. The objective of the games’…

Coding goes green in rural France

Simplon.co is a french startup factory empowering entrepreneur-programmers. Underprivileged smart people are regularly trained on web development and helped to build web…

Coding for migrant children: A pilot project from Les Voyageurs du Code and the Association Hors la Rue, France

Lucie, one of several EU Code Week Ambassadors for France, brings us a story about teaching coding to migrant children:…

34 #codeEU countries and almost 70 Ambassadors

    Over the weekend, we added two new countries to our website: Moldova and the Isle of Man. A warm welcome to…

    Over 200 events have already been added to the coding map of Europe!  Start planning your event today…

Robots in a Dutch school: from the basics of coding to driving robots

RoboMind Academy is an online educator-friendly platform that can be used with students aged 8 years or older. By programming a…

What is it like to organize a coding event? Ask Django Girls!

What is it like to organize a coding event? Ask Django Girls! You’ve read our guide on how to organize…

Almost 200 events have already been listed into the EU Code Map

    Europe wants to code! Almost 200 events have already been listed, start planning yours today: http://events.codeweek.eu/guide/

Meet Thomas Carrigan, a Robot Maker and CoderDojo Ninja from Ireland

We recently asked Thomas of CoderDojo DCU in Ireland about his experience as a young coder and his winning entry for the…

Over 100 #codeEU events have already been added to the coding map of Europe! 

    Paris is currently in the lead, but we’re sure there’s plenty going on in your city as well!…

Did one tweet about Europe Code Week really just change education in Ireland forever?

Irish Minister Ciarán Cannon has a great blog post on Neelie Kroes’ blog about how #codeEU provided the much needed…

Skill-Sharing as a result from the Europe Code Week

The GEMS Academy in Etoy, Switzerland, really embraced the spirit of Europe Code Week last year. As a result, they…