The project FREE TO CODE intends to develop an innovative training programme on Coding for detained people that can be re-introduced in the society (18-60) starting from the digital literacy up to the basics of Coding and by developing their business and entrepreneurship attitudes, with a methodology that is applying the European recommendations to validate the non-formal and informal learning in order to facilitate the recognition and transfer of learning outcomes. The project addresses these individuals to improve their job opportunities and for successful re-entry through business and technology training.
Coding education is not only about equipping the current and next generation to work as software engineers, it is about promoting computational thinking. It combines Mathematics, Logic and Algorithms, and teaches 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. Even if one never becomes a professional software engineer, they will still benefit from knowing how to think this way. 

Objectives

  • Giving people a second chance, turning their lives around, and training them in a skills 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 which will have to be acquired by all young students and increasingly by all workers in a wide range of industries and professions. Coding is part of logical reasoning and represents one of the key skills which are part of what is now called “21st century skills”.

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

Intangible Results

  • Improvement of personal skills and motivation: creativity, cooperation, working together across physical and geographical boundaries and communication in a universal language
  • Favouring active participation and better understanding of the digital world
  • Improved professional opportunities as basic coding skills is also needed for many jobs
  • Favouring 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, team work 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.

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