Call for Action

Code Week Partners

EU Code Week is set to take place on 6-21 October 2018.

The context

This year, the support to the campaign by the European Commission has been further
strengthened and formally stated as part of the Digital Education Action Plan. With the purpose
to increase digital skills of European citizens, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital
Economy and Society and Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture,
Youth and Sport have embraced the EU Code Week 2018 and have encouraged all schools to
join the initiative. The European Commission wishes the campaign to involve 50% of all schools
by 2020.

GOPA Com. and European Schoolnet, together with the Code Week Ambassadors are working
towards achieving this goal. National educational coordinators (Edu Coordinators) and a
community of volunteer teachers (Leading Teachers) are being activated to support the
campaign.

However, such an ambitious target can only be achieved with the contribution of all
education actors, and for this reason, we are inviting partners to join the cause.

What is new this year?

To involve more schools in the campaign and offer meaningful engagement opportunities to
teachers and students, the Code Week Team has been:

 Creating a ‘Schools’ page dedicated to teachers and schools;

 Developing training modules to introduce teachers with no or little experience in
programming to Code Week;
 Expanding the community of EU Code Week so that more stakeholders can contribute
to its success;
 Tailoring the Code Week 4 All challenge to encourage national and international
collaboration about coding in the classroom;
 Organising online live events, webinars, trainings, and various national activities
depending on the relevant local contexts.

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Spread the word
The bar is set high and to achieve the goal of 50% school participation by 2020 everyone should
contribute. Take a look at the Communication Toolkit and see how your organisation can support
the campaign by spreading the Code Week 2018 campaign to their networks an communities
across Europe.

Become a Partner
EU Code Week invites partners to support the campaign and become active members of the
Code Week community this year.

Code Week Edu Leading

Partners
Ambassadors Coordinators Teachers

To take part in this year’s EU Code Week, interested partners should follow these steps.

Step 1. Register

To become a partner in EU Code Week 2018, please fill in this form.

 Design one or more activities to engage your network schools in EU Code Week 2018;
 Assign to your campaign a “tag” that each participating school can quote when registering
to the Code Week map. This “tag” will allow you to monitor the impact of the camping;
 Decide whether your campaign data (e.g. number of schools, students involved etc.),
collected with the “tag” system, can be shared publicly or only with you.

Step 2. Reach out to schools

Launch a campaign to engage schools through your network and beyond. Make sure schools:

 Register their activities on the Code Week map (https://codeweek.eu/events);

 Use the “tag” you have decided when registering. After Code Week, if your “tag” has been
mentioned in at least 10 activities, the overall impact will be reported to you.

In addition, you are welcome to suggest resources that are of added value to participants; initiate
competitions or prizes; give us suggestions on how to involve more schools and students.

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What are the benefits of becoming a Code Week partner?
By contributing to Code Week as partner, your organisation will:

 Become an essential part of one of the greatest grassroots initiatives in Europe;

 Have the logo and web link published in the partners banner in the Code Week main
page;
 Be able to know how many schools and students have participated as a result of your
effort. This information, if you agree, will be also published on the webpage;
 Help us raise awareness about the importance of coding and getting Europe truly digital.

For more information, you can visit the EU Code Week website: www.codeweek.eu or contact
info@codeweek.eu

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