EU Code Week, Newsletter / March 2023
EU Code Week
EU Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody.
Celebrating women in tech
On 8 March we celebrated International Women’s Day and the month of March is Women’s History Month. This fact has not gone unnoticed on the Code Week portal, where we published blogposts recognising the significant contributions women have made to coding and celebrating the scientific, economic, cultural and political contributions to events in history. You can read them below:
Have you registered for the MOOC yet?
Have you registered?for the EU Code Week MOOC?Unlocking the power of AI in Education?yet??The first live event of the MOOC will take place on Tuesday 14 March, 17:00 CET. The course aims to provide a basic understanding of AI and its potential and to explore AI resources for education. The first module will introduce participants to basic AI concepts and explore the use of AI in the classroom and possible implementation of AI technologies. Check out this?video?for more details on Module 1.
As part of the MOOC there will be?three live events.
We look forward to seeing you on the course!
Code Week 2022 in numbers
The statistics for Code Week 2022, which marked the tenth anniversary of the biggest coding initiative in Europe, are available, and the numbers paint a positive picture. A total of 77,541 events were registered last year, with Italy, Turkey and Poland at the top of the table in terms of events?organised, with 20,986, 20,254 and 13,909 events, respectively.
Click here?for more facts and figures on Code Week 2022.
February highlights from the Code Week blogosphere
The Code Week community has been sharing its experiences in blog posts on the Code Week portal and we have also published news of interest to the community. Some highlights include: