Future Skills: a program for mainstreaming coding & soft digital skills into Primary and secondary Level education across Europe and Africa

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Description

Today, coding skills are key in many industries and sectors. ThinkYoung has designed several accessible courses to equip the next generation with up-to-date coding skills.
The Coding Summer School aims at building youth’s interest in coding and STEM skills while developing their 21st-century skills. The commitment is in collaboration with Boeing, aiming at bringing more young women into STEM by ensuring 70% female participation rate of the program. The program will include workshops, guest lectures and practical activities to stimulate the youth’s interests in STEM. The Coding Schools will be run by Boeing in Belgium, Netherlands and Kenya.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

The goal of this initiative is to foster youth’s interest in STEM skills and to kick-start STEM education for young people with a focus on the gender gap.
This programme is free for participants and it aims at having 70% female participants. 20% of the participants are expected to enrol in STEM education in universities. The impact will be measured against the European Average, which means 9.8% of students will choose STEM at a higher education level.
ThinkYoung will host a 5-day 21st-century skills summer school. During the 5-day training, practitioners will train the students on coding and the use of different technologies for gaining basic coding skills. The students will test, learn and challenge themselves to code and create programs for getting practical experience in 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication.

Partners

ThinkYoung

SDGS & Targets

Goal 8

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

8.1

Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries

8.1.1

Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita

8.2

Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

8.2.1

Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person

8.3

Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

8.3.1

Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex

8.4

Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead

8.4.1

Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP

8.4.2

Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

8.5

By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.5.1

Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities

8.5.2

Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

8.6

By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

8.6.1

Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training

8.7

Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms

8.7.1

Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age

8.8

Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

8.8.1

Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status

8.8.2

Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status

8.9

By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

8.9.1

Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate

8.10

Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

8.10.1

(a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults

8.10.2

Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider

8.a

Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

8.a.1

Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements

8.b

By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization

8.b.1

Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy

False

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Action Network

This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.

Timeline

07 March 2019 (start date)

20 July 2020 (date of completion)

Entity

N/A

SDGs

More information

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/commitment/218

Countries

Belgium

Kenya

Netherlands

Contact Information

Delila Kidanu, Business Development Manager

delila@thinkyoung.eu

Future Skills: a program for mainstreaming coding &amp; soft digital skills into Primary and secondary Level education across Europe and Africa