MISSION
Powercoders offers intensive, full time coding courses to refugees with the aim of professionally integrating them into the IT labour market.
68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide
- UNHCR
500’000 unfilled jobs in EU ICT sector by 2020
- European Commission
Financially supporting a refugee family costs 50,000€
- EU Observer
Through giving displaced people their independence back, filling the gap of open job positions in the IT-industry and reducing social welfare costs, we are addressing three important issues in society today:
PROGRAM
3 MONTHS
INTENSIVE COURSES
INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT
6 - 12 MONTHS
IMPACT IN NUMBERS
Program ran in four Swiss cities.
71 participants in total.
60+ companies have offered internships.
SUCCESS RATE
... success rate for internships placements.
… of participants find a job.
(ongoing estimation)
100%
80%
INDUSTRY FEEDBACK
...of companies said their intern met their expectations.
...said they would offer an internship again.
90%
80%
95%
...of volunteers said they would volunteer again.
* based off Impact Report, 2018
PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
...of students felt like Powercoders significantly changed their lives.
...say it improved their mental health or feeling of acceptance.
90%
100%
...of participants are fully off social welfare after only 12 months.
40%
* based off Impact Report, 2018
IMPLEMENTATION - SETUP
SCHOOL PHASE
(3 MONTHS)
INTERNSHIP PHASE
(6 - 12 MONTHS)
PREPARATION PHASE
(3 MONTHS)
FULL TIME JOB
PROGRAMS
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THANK YOU
Magaly Mathys - Industry lead
+41 76 403 67 17 �magaly.mathys@powercoders.org�
Powercoders Suisse romande