Meet the Winners (Powered by Vodafone Foundation)

Across Europe, educators brought digital learning to life during Code Week 2025, in classrooms, libraries, and communities.
Today, we are proud to celebrate the winners of the Code Week Digital Educator Awards powered by
Vodafone Foundation, recognising both outstanding teaching content and extraordinary participation efforts.

How winners were selected

This year, we received an impressive 74 applications from 22 countries, with a remarkable level of quality,
creativity, and pedagogical value. Track A winners were selected by an independent jury using shared scoring criteria, while
the Community Choice Award will be decided through verified public voting from a shortlist.

Jury Panel (2025)

• Matthias Graf von Kielmansegg – Managing Director (Executive Management), Vodafone Foundation Germany
• Gordana Benat – Head of Department for Education, Profil-Klett Hrvatska (Code4Europe Consortium Representative)
• Annie Bergh – Educator, Code Week Ambassador and President of the EU Code Week Council
• Prof. Dr. David-Samuel Di Fuccia – University of Kassel and German Teachers’ Association
• Lotfi Aoulad – Program Manager and Coordinator of the Global Skills Academy, UNESCO

Track A: Digital Educator Content Awards – Category Winners

These winning activities stood out for creativity, pedagogical value, inclusion, and replicability, and will be showcased
and promoted through the Code Week community.

Best “AI in Education” Activity

Georgia Lascaris – “When Cardboard Comes to Life: Pollinators, Robotics, and Machine Learning”

Best Digital Wellbeing Activity

Nela Slezenkova Nikovska – “We relax and play with the coder Picasso”

Best Green Activity (Sustainability)

Zeliha Gölbaşı – “Every Code is a Tree, Every Idea is a Breath! (Her Kod Bir Ağaç, Her Fikir Bir Nefes!)”

Best Inclusion-Focused Activity

Enrica Caruana – “Crack the Code – Goldilocks Sequence Debugging”

Community Choice Award – Public voting open now!

The following activities have been shortlisted for community voting:

• Explain it to an Alien – Kind Messages from Planet Earth (Digital Wellbeing)
• Smart Educational Bee Park (Technology, Spirulina and Innovation for Sustainable Beekeeping) (Green / Sustainability)
• The Sustainable Symphony (Green / Sustainability)

Track B: Participation Awards – Code Week Activity Superstars

We are also recognising the educators and organisations who mobilised their communities and submitted outstanding numbers of
activities during 11–26 October 2025.

Most Activity Submissions

1. 1st: Tokshelukova Lyudmila Serhiivna (Ukraine) – Higher Vocational School No. 7, Kremenchuk
2. 2nd: Karolina Kamyk (Poland) – Kindergarten in Raciszyn with the Branch School in Kolonia Lisowice
3. 3rd: Bernadett Krepsz-Kapai (Hungary) – Zalaapáti Gábor Áron Elementary School

Country Champion

Natalie Calleja (Malta) – Secretariat for Catholic Education

Newcomer Award (first-time organiser)

Niels Arndt (Germany) – Hannover City Library

Random Activity Draw

Özlem Aras (Türkiye) – Hediye Güral Kindergarten

Save the date: 22 January 2026 – Winners Celebration

Congratulations again to all winners, and thank you to every educator, school, hub, and partner who made Code Week 2025 a success!