The Free to Code initiative will implement a training program in Programming for inmates (between 18-60 years old) through a methodology of non-formal and informal learning.
The program will address from digital literacy up to the basics of Coding and aims to improve their job opportunities and for successful re-entry through business and technology training.
Coding education is about promoting computational thinking, combining Mathematics, Logic and Algorithms, and teaching a new way to think about the world. 
Computational thinking teaches how to tackle large problems by breaking them down into a sequence of smaller, more manageable problems, it helps our logic go from specific solutions to general ones. 

Objectives

  • Give people a second chance, turning their lives around, and training them in a skill set which has a high demand
  • Favour access to digital education for adult learners, reducing the digital gap and disparities between adult vulnerable people in the use of ICT tools.
Coding is becoming increasingly a key competence in a wide range of industries and professions. Is part of logical reasoning and represents one of the key skills of the “21st century skills”.

Tangible Results
 An interactive, multifunctional PLATFORM for adult coding education
Training contents, interactive exercises, and programming games​
The expected result: promote digital learning, increase literacy, numeracy, and key competences of adult people with a disadvantaged background namely prisoners about to leave the custody.

Intangible Results
  • Improve personal skills, motivation, creativity, cooperation, teamwork across physical and geographical boundaries and communication in a universal language;
  • Favour active participation and better understanding of the digital world;
  • Improve professional opportunities as basic coding skills are needed for many jobs;
  • Favour the promotion of non-formal and informal learning among adult learners, people usually excluded from mainstream and traditional education pathways.

Programming is fundamental to the understanding of a hyper-connected world. Coding helps practice 21st century skills such as: problem solving, teamwork and analytical thinking.
The Free to Code project is co-financed by ERASMUS + programme ( KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for adult education).  ERASMUS +  is the new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth, and Sport (2014-2020). This website has been accomplished during the “Free to Code” project implemented with financial support of the European Commission by the Erasmus + Programme.  This publication reflects the views only of the author. The Erasmus+ agency and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Copyright © 2019  developed by Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social