Code Week Podcast

In this chapter, EU Code Week meets the European Space Agency, ESA on Education. Listen to discover what made the ESA Educators join this task, how ESA sees that SPACE can transform Education in Europe, by educating students from primary school to PHD level with challenging coding tasks and ways to make your projects (literally) be launched into SPACE. ESA shares how digital skills can be applied...

In this episode, we speak about the reasons and ways to bring coding into many subjects at school. Learn more about how coding can be used in STEM learning, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics!

In this episode, Ibrahim Oussari, founder and CEO of Molengeek, shares his inspiring story. Born in Molenbeek to Moroccan immigrant parents and having left school at 13, Ibrahim became a successful entrepreneur. He launched several companies and became a local role model, advocating for accessible technology education. Molengeek, based in Brussels, has grown into a pan-European project with center...

In our first episode for 2024, we had the pleasure of engaging in a fascinating conversation with Koen Timmers. In this insightful discussion, we explored the pivotal role of coding in combating climate change and how it has spurred the creation of the Climate Action Project. Koen, web design professor and teacher for 20 years,created the initiative dedicated to addressing the climate emergency al...

Do you know what is the relation between coding and Lego? Discover it here! In fact we are excited to share this podcast episode with Katarina Veljkovic, she is Global Teacher Prize finalist from Serbia. She employs original and innovative learning techniques that leverage modern information technology, including robots, Lego robots, mobile phones, and virtual worlds! Through these tools, I inspir...

We are excited to introduce here Jowita Michalska! Jowita is Founder of Digital University, a leading educational organisation in Poland, this offer a world-class educational experience, building and digital mindset. The target groups are various bit they span from people interested in digital transformation to youth. Jowita is not only the the Founder and CEO of Digital University she has also be...

Let’s meet Jame Ferrand Gutierrez! He's the Head of Data Intelligence of Ipsos Spain, a true metaverse advocate and someone who knows ever so much about the use of data in our society. He has been working in market research and is a real expert in technology, during Covid he got a master's degree in A.I. We talk about how we can use data today and what we can do with it.

Welcome to EU Code Week Podcasts. We bring coding, computational thinking, robotics and innovation closer to you and for this episode our guest is Nicolas Babin. Nicolas with almost 35 years of expertise traveled and worked across the world, led projects in both the East and West and has even launched the robotics division of Sony Europe. As a EU Digital Ambassador he also shared with us his visio...

In this episode our guest is Stefania Altieri. She is an Italian teacher, she has a long experience as a teacher having tought in primary, secondary school, kindergarten and also university. She believes that the tole of coding and STEAM and STEM subjects is incredibly useful in students’ skills and competencies development. She is now working at the Ministry of Education in Italy to support schoo...

Let’s meet the protagonist of this new Episode of EU Code Week podcasts: Peter Joziasse. Peter, a social entrepreneur, is very active in culture, youth participation and digital child rights in livable, smart cities. Volunteer of UNICEF and founder of the Digital Child Rights Foundation. We discussed how digitalchildrights.org started and how giving children opportunities and chances in the digita...

As technology becomes more present in our society, we aim to support the school's, teachers, policy-makers in transitioning towards this digital world and in bringing technology closer to young people. And in this episode we will talk about many topics with Silwia Blach an horror author, a developer in different coding languages and an activist. She believe that technologies change our lives for t...

Our guest today is Lidija Kralj is a UNESCO and European Commission expert in data and AI in education, and she used to work as a computer science and mathematics teacher. We discussed about challenges and misperceptions regarding A.I. and how is still a new environment especially for teachers. Nevertheless, AI has a lot of potential for teaching and learning, but there are a lot of challenges and...

Today, our guest speaker is David Alayon, a professor at the IE, Instituto de Empresa University with advanced knowledge in technology, innovation, future tech and tech advising. Co-founder and CEO of Innuba -helping companies design and launch products that have a positive impact on society- and co-founder and advisor of Mindset (consulting firm specialising in digital transformation),“I learned...

In this episode we will have the change to talk with Georgia Lascaris and Kristina Slisuric. The first one has been working as a software engineer for about ten years in the private sector, before entering the field of education. Ahe is now a teacher of computer science, ICT, robotics and STEM in primary and secondary schools in Greece. While Kristina is an I.T. teacher in primary school in Croati...

Though boys and girls use technology similarly regarding learning how to code, male students have always constituted the majority of students in this topic area. Recently, various initiatives and some very smart educators pushing for more girls in coding are tackling this gender gap and gender levelling up in the CODING FIELD. In today’s chapter, we discover the EGOI, the European Girls’ Olympiad...

Today’s episode will focus on the 2022 study announced by the European Commission: “Reviewing Computational Thinking in Compulsory Education: State of Play and Practices from the Field”. The topics of discussion will follow the study outline, starting with a general introduction and comparison to the 2016 study, touching on study methodology, sources, and key terms, going through the main findings...

In this episode, Povilas will be talking about his coding journey that led him to his current career, while touching on why coding is important as start in science, how a programming career in science actually looks like as opposed to big tech, as well as details about data analytics and its uses.

In this episode, the focus will be on cyber security, while also touching on the importance of coding, what is its relationship with cyber security, how to keep pupils safe, why there is a need to talk about cyber security in schools, as well as how to raise awareness about this topic with the general public.

This episode will focus on kood/Jõhvi, also known as the Jõhvi Coding School project. From general presentation of kood and its impact it aims to have on education in Estonia while filling a need in the job sector, the discussion will also touch on the start of the project and future perspective, with a part of the episode being dedicated to the application process.

Maria and our hosts will talk about how social innovators can use coding to develop solutions for every-day challenges, and focus on several main points: - Digital changes and current solutions: where the changes needed in the educational system are discussed, but also the current solutions that are at hand to set things into motion - Access to technology for all pupils: where the Covid-19 challen...

In this episode, we will discuss the advantages of self-learning vs. being taught to program, why coding is as useful and necessary as grammar or math, programming is writing, code phonology and the usefulness of learning to read code.

Hendrik will join us to talk about what is like to work in one of the most attractive industries, how to get started, the applications of gaming in the classroom, how the knowledge of coding games can be applied to other industries, his own perspective on the future of education, and his experiences as a young man trying to develop his first game.

In this episode, Petra and our hosts will talk about how coding can drive creativity and innovation, what obstacles are in the way of teaching coding and how to overcome them, how and when to introduce digital skills to young students. The conversation will also touch on the how to make the lessons impactful and reach a larger audience.

The episode will reflect on the role and purpose of schools and the need for more flexibility in the learning process, as well as the importance of supporting schools in the process of adjusting to the new normality. It will also dive into how necessary AI and tech skills are, as well as a brief warm-up question on how to start teaching coding without any prior programming experience.

The episode will reflect on the role and purpose of schools and the need for more flexibility in the learning process, as well as the importance of supporting schools in the process of adjusting to the new normality. It will also dive into how necessary AI and tech skills are, as well as a brief warm-up question on how to start teaching coding without any prior programming experience.